Golden joysticks: winners give their verdicts

After an absence of five years, The Golden Joysticks awards returned in fine style last Friday, with a dazzling awards ceremony taking place at London's Dorchester Hotel. Hosted by Dennis Interactive, the ceremony was presented by TV presenter and all-round wit Jonathan Ross, with the cream of the games industry in attendance. With 16 awards in total, the Joysticks are very much the people's awards, all voted for by readers of Computer and Videogames magazine, PC Zone magazine and ComputerAndVideoGames. ...more

Intel boosts Xeon cache and clock speed - claims 25 per cent performance boost

Intel has introduced an upgraded version of its Xeon processor aimed at the multi-processor server market. The chip now runs at 3GHz and sports up to 4MB of level three cache. This, according to Intel offers performance improvements of up to 25 per cent over the previous 2. ...more

Microsoft gets mob handed for iTV

Microsoft has teamed up with three other interactive TV companies to bolster its "Microsoft TV" drive into this emerging market. The partnership will develop technology delivering interactive advertising, enabling viewers to shop from their TV. The partners are ACTV, a company integrating Internet features into televisions, eCity, which is developing interactive services that let viewers choose to view ads and then buy them, and RespondTV, which has developed technology to allow TV network operators to deliver information on programs, products and services. ...more

PS3 set to maintain Sony dominance - In-Stat

With Microsoft having already launched its successor to the Xbox console in December 2005, Sony's announcement that the PS3 would be further delayed to November 2006 was bad news for the Japanese electronics giant. There is reassurance for Sony, however, in the latest research into next-generation games consoles. According to analysis by , Sony will continue to dominate the video console market for the coming years, despite the early lead established by the Xbox 360. ...more

Firefox 1.1 delayed until June

The next point release of the open source browser Firefox is now dated for June. However the developers insist that the delay is 'normal' and has nothing to do with the recent movement of programmers to Google. According to Firefox's lead engineer Ben Goodger - in the news recently by taking a job with Google - the anticipated March release of version 1. ...more