Intel to drop speed labelling for processors

The world's biggest computer processor manufacturer is to stop naming its chips by their raw clock speed. Having lorded it over other chip makers, such as Motorola, IBM and AMD, for so long by producing faster and faster processors, Intel has now admitted to itself that putting the emphasis on pure speed no longer tells the whole story. Other features, such as security, multi-tasking and wireless networking, are equally if not more important to Intel's customers including PC manufacturers and end users. ...more

IBM's Blue Gene wears the supercomputing trousers

IBM has claimed the top spot for the third time in a row in the global supercomputing chart with its Blue Gene/L system. The TOP500 Organisation put in a sustained performance of 280.6 Teraflops, or trillions of floating point calculations per second. ...more

Adobe adds RAW power to Photoshop

Adobe has released Camera Raw updates for the Mac and Windows flavours of Photoshop and Photoshop Elements. The updates add support for the Raw image formats of four new cameras - Canon EOS Rebel XT (EOS 350D/EOS Kiss Digital N), Nikon D2X, Olympus EVOLT E-300 and Olympus C-7070 Wide Zoom - and an updated DNG Converter utility for converting the Raw files into Adobe's digital negative (DNG) format. It is available for Adobe Creative Studio 2, Photoshop CS2 and Photoshop Elements 3. ...more

Thumb-sized digicam for Palm-sized PDA

Veo has launched its Photo Traveler digital camera for SD-ready Palm handhelds in the UK. Costing a penny under £80 and available from the likes of PC World, Currys and Dixons, the camera fits into the SD slot on m125, m130, m500 and Tungsten T handhelds. The point and shoot camera captures images in full 24-bit colour on its VGA (640x480) CMOS sensor. ...more

Dreamcast set-top box unveiled

For those of you saddened by the news that Sega will not be producing any more Dreamcast units, take heart in the first picture of Sega and Pace's new hybrid set-top box. The unit looks very similar to Pace's other digital receivers but, instead of sporting a black case, the unit has a familiar Dreamcast cream livery. The unit doesn't have a CD drive so there won't be any opportunity to play your old DC games, instead users will have to rely on the supplied cable modem to download software and be part of the 'pay-to-play' experience. ...more