iTunes 7 users report significant problems

iTunes users are reporting significant problems with the latest version 7 upgrade, including distorted audio. Audio corruption has been reported by several Windows iTunes users in a thread on Apple's Discussion boards. Cipher reported that 'ALL of the songs in my library are extremely distorted when I play them. ...more

Dell to offer AMD desktops and notebooks - analyst

Dell Computer is widely tipped to announce an expanded alliance with chip maker AMD. According to rumours circulating, Dell plans to buy in up to two million AMD powered machines. The powerful Bank of America Securities analyst Sumit Dhanda is reporting that Dell plans to build 1 to 1. ...more

Canon unveils PIXMA range of colour inkjets

Canon is claiming to have scaled new heights in printing advances with its latest inkjets. The company says the PIXMA iP5000 squirts out ink droplets at a tiny 1 picolitre in size and can create prints of 9600 x 2400dpi resolution. The print heads have also been improved to a level close to the integrated circuits used at professional print labs using technology it refers to as FINE (Full-photolithography Inkjet Nozzle Engineering). ...more

TFT LCD capacity booked up by notebook brands

To ensure stable supply and guard against price increases, two first-tier, international notebook vendors have booked the entire capacity of certain TFT LCD production lines in Taiwan, sources have told DigiTimes. The notebook brands are assuming all of the risk involved in operating the lines. They gain increased control over cost and the flexibility to produce panels matching their own specification and size requirements. ...more

Cryptography break threatens digital signatures

Researchers in the field of cryptography have been successfully breaking the hash functions that are used to secure the privacy of electronic communications, threatening the integrity of digital signatures, according to a report on Slashdot. Details from the Crypto 2004 conference indicate that one Antoine Joux has broken the hash function used within the SHA-0 algorithm, and there are rumours that somebody is about to announce a partial break of the SHA-1, which is one of most popular cryptographic hash functions (CHF). As well as potentially undermining secure email web connections, such breakthroughs threaten the integrity of digital signatures. ...more