Trolltech intros Linux development Greenphone

Trolltech has introduced a mobile phone handset designed so that commercial and open source developers, in-house software developers and handset manufacturers can create, modify and test Linux-based mobile phone applications on a working GSM/GPRS device. The Qtopia Greenphone is bundled with a complete software development kit and includes Trolltech?€s Qtopia Phone Edition, an application platform and user interface for Linux-based mobile phones. Although Trolltech does not intend it to be used as a commercial mobile phone, the Greenphone has been designed to have many of the communication functions and features typical of smartphones, such as a working camera, so that developers can exploit these features and functions in their applications. ...more

In this transaction I trust

Increasingly, Web-based services will take over our life. Microsoft is hoping to bolster our confidence that such transactions can be managed securely. Microsoft has signed up VeriSign to strengthen the security basis of its . ...more

Toshiba gets more blue in the tooth

Toshiba announces a new Bluetooth SDIO card. Supporting Bluetooth wireless comms, the updated card is aimed at PCs, PDAs, mobile phones and digicams - anything equipped with an SD slot. Toshiba released its first Bluetooth SDIO card back in July 2001 - with the Japanese launch of its 'Genio' PocketPC-based handheld. ...more

Singles market crashes by 41 per cent, album sales up at all time high

The market for singles continues to fall through the floor although album sales have gone up due to falling prices, according to the latest quarterly survey from the British Phonographic Industry. According the latest survey, the effect of shrinking price differentials between singles and albums (where a single can cost up to ?4.99 while the average price of a CD album is now ?9. ...more

Google turns blue

Problems with a content filter on Google's recently launched Google Base turned the classifieds service blue as a slew of adult content flooded into unsuspecting browsers. It appears there was a problem with the 'Safe Search' filter that failed to block the many thousands of pornographic content items apparently already on the service, despite it being barely a week old. A spokesperson for the company told News. ...more