PC Pro announces most reliable companies

On Thursday 19th October PC Pro announced the winners of its annual Reliability & Service Awards. Dan and Dell cleaned up in the PC service, reliability and support categories, while IBM and Sony stole the show in the notebook group. Epson won the printer reliability and support award. ...more

Mystery musician rescues peer-to-peer campaigner

The future of popular peer-to-peer campaign site, pro-p2p, appears to be secure following fresh investment from a mysterious backer from the music industry. The site's founder, Jon Newton, had been forced to put the anti-DRM site up for sale, after his main sources of revenues gradually withdrew their advertising and financial backing. However, in addition to his mystery backer, Newton has also secured technical backup and a hosting service that will enable him to relaunch the site within a matter of weeks. ...more

And also today (29-August-2001), for the record...

Here, in brief, are some of the day's other stories. Gateway cull begins Gateway is to cut 25 per cent of its workforce - about 4,600 jobs. At the beginning of the month, Gateway signalled the massive cut backs. ...more

AMD settles patent dispute with Intergraph

AMD has settled its patent dispute with Intergraph Corporation concerning the alleged infringement of Intergraph's 'Clipper' cacheing technologies. Under the terms of the agreement, AMD will pay up to $25 million over the next three years. The company will pay Intergraph $10 million, plus 2 per cent of profits from its microprocessor sales between 2005-2007 up to $5 million per year up to a total of $25 million. ...more

Apple patents image-sensing screens

Apple has applied for a patent for an LCD screen that doubles as a camera. US Patent Application 20060007222 describes an integrated sensing display where the display elements - the pixels in effect - are integrated with image sensing elements. The result is a screen that, like the telescreens in Orwells' 1984, can see images as well as display them. ...more