Creative adds Vision to the Zen player mix

Creative's Zen family of MP3 players has expanded to include a new member: the video-enabled Zen Vision:M. Sporting a colour screen and up to 30GB of storage, it is billed as a video player, photo viewer and MP3 player, and represents Creative's latest attempt to undermine Apple's iPod dominance. Creative claims that the rechargeable battery provides up to 15 hours of music playback and four hours of video playback, with video format supported including MPEG-2, MPEG-4 Simple Profile formats (such as Xvid), WMV, and MJPEG. ...more

Blair Witch online, the sequel

A webcast to promote the sequel to last year's blockbuster The Blair Witch Project seems to have hit it big on the Web, attracting 100,000 users in its first six hours online. The original Blair Witch, made for only $30,000, went on to gross $245m worldwide with the success of the film being widely attributed to a buzz that began on the Internet. The 64-hour live webcast began last week and can be accessed at www. ...more

IDF Fall 2003: Bulverde showcased as next-gen XScale processor

The successor to Intel?s XScale processor, 'Bulverde', was showcased today at the Mobile Technology keynote at IDF. And multimedia muscle is Intel's pitch for this future element of its Personal Client Architecture. In his keynote presentation of Bulverde, Ron Smith, general manager of Intel's Wireless Communications and Computing group, highlighted the multimedia possibilities of a Bulverde-based device compared to current offerings, for example running games. ...more

iPod shuffle software updated

Apple has released a software update for the iPod shuffle. The v1.1. ...more

Dilbert redesigns search engine

Regular Google users will have already noticed a new partnership being formed... ...more