Apple's Ive shortlisted for UK award

The award is open to all UK-born or UK-based designers and is run alongside an exhibition at the Design Museum in London. Votes from visitors to the exhibition will be added to online votes to choose the winner. Ive, vice president of Industrial Design at Apple, is responsible for all Apple's design innovation since he broke the rules for computer design with the original iMac. ...more

And also today (10-Jan-2001), for the record...

Here, in brief, are some of the day's other stories. Motorola and Borland announced an alliance, with Borland to provide JBuilder 4 Foundation as part of the Motorola iDEN Subscriber Group's developers' toolkit. This is in anticipation of Motorola's "Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition (J2ME) technology-enabled multiple communication handsets", expected to be available in the first half of 2001. ...more

YouTube speeds police hunt for murder suspect

A YouTube video has helped Canadian police find a man they believe responsible for a murder. Police in the Southern Ontario city of Hamilton said that they uploaded a one-minute, 12-second clip from a surveillance tape onto the video-sharing YouTube site. The video, which showed suspects arriving at a local nightclub for a Sean Price hip-hop concert, garnered media attention and was viewed more than 30,000 times. ...more

4GB DDR memory sticks in volume production

Samsung says its 1Gbit DDR memory is the first to receive Intel endorsement and is already in mass production in DIMMs of up to 4GB in capacity. The 4GB registered DIMMs will be produced for high-end machines - servers, workstations and so on - but even the humble desktop will see 2GB sticks, of the unbuffered variety, and SODIMMs for notebooks will also be produced to this capacity. The modules will be clocked at DDR266 and DDR333 speeds. ...more

Off the top and bottom, for Intel and AMD cuts

Intel has announced processor price cuts across the top end of its processor range by as much as ?110. For the record, the 2Ghz P4 drops 29 per cent from $562 to $401, the 1.9Ghz model drops 27 per cent form $375 to $273 and the 1. ...more