Time follows Tiny with all-in-one

Following on from Tiny's launch of the Takami home-entertainment system, Time has produced it's own all-in-one machine. Called the Player, the PC is a combined hi-fi, games console, DVD player and Internet terminal, says Time. It's based around a PC with a 700MHz AMD processor, 64Mb of Ram, a 20Gb hard drive, DVD drive and modem. ...more

Pro and Neo meet the Visor family

Handspring has updated its Visor range of handheld computers with two new models: the Visor Pro and the Visor Neo. Aimed more at the professional user, the Pro (pictured) carries 16MB of memory - twice the storage capacity of Handspring's previous best models. The Neo, by contrast, is a higher-performance entry-level model, which Handspring claims to be fifty per cent faster than the Visor Deluxe. ...more

Computer games used to treat 'lazy eye'

Computer games are being used by researchers to help treat the condition of amblyopia, or a 'lazy eye' as it is colloquially known, reports the BBC. Successfully navigating the specially developed games will automatically strengthen the gamer's 'weak' eye. Because one eye works better than the other, the traditional approach is to strengthen the 'lazy' eye by forcing its use, for example by wearing a patch over the good eye. ...more

Net yourself a canine winner

If you like to have a flutter on the dogs and don't like the smoky atmosphere of your local betting shop then you may be in for a treat if Gaming Internet gets its way. The company intends to offer greyhound racing over the Internet 24 hours a day, seven days a week and have just secured a deal that ensures that they have access to 20 per cent of the dog tracks in Europe. They have also made in-roads into the Australian, African and Asian greyhound world. ...more

Apple dishes out iPod plunder for 500,000,000th iTunes download

Half a billion and counting. Apple has notched up the 500,000,000th download from its iTunes Music Store and a woman from Indiana is the very lucky recipient of a big iPod prize bundle. Earlier this month Apple announced it would mark the milestone with a big give away and one Amy Greer of Lafayette, Indiana scooped the 10 iPods, the Gold 10,000-song Gift Card for the iTMS (and 10 additional 50-song gift cards to go with each iPod) and four tickets to see Coldplay on their current world tour. ...more