LaCie announces big drives

LaCie has unveiled the latest addition to its collection of hard drives, the Triple Interface. Each drive is equipped with two FireWire 800 ports 'for speed', one FireWire 400 for computers that don't support 800 and for 'daisy chaining devices' and one Hi-Speed USB 2 port, 'for cross-platform convenience'. The drives include all the necessary cabling, including a DV cable to enable digital footage to be downloaded direct from a camera. ...more

USA, a nation of eBay professionals

Further evidence that eBay is becoming the world's bazaar has emerged from a new survey carried out by the company. It reckons that around one and a half million Americans buy and sell on eBay to supplement their income. For 724,000 professional sellers, eBay is now their prime or secondary source of income. ...more

A new Pavilion built by HP

'Work hard play hard' is HP's tag for its new Pavilion notebook. The Pavilion zt1231s notebook is intended to provide 'no compromise mobile computing' - in terms of multimedia support - at a reasonable price. It is aimed at small business users as well as home users. ...more

AMD says it is on track with 90nm SOI process

AMD has denied reports that it has run into trouble in developing its 90nm SOI process. Yesterday we reported that Xbit Labs had learned that development problems had pushed back the launch of desktop processors based on the 90nm process to the second half of 2005. The recently issued roadmap had placed the 'San Diego' chip in the first half of 2005. ...more

Freeserve's unmetered losses

Internet access isn't the only unmetered aspect of UK internet service provider Freeserve, as it has posted larger than expected losses. Although Freeserve posted a first-quarter revenue increase from the previous quarter's ?7.2m to ?14. ...more