Intel's mobile Dothan to debut 16 February

Intel will debut its new Centrino mobile processor, codenamed 'Dothan', on 16 February. This is according to a report on the Californian-based website XbitLabs. 'Dothan' is the codename for the next-generation core for the Pentium M mobile processor, succeeding 'Banias'. ...more

Video games make it to A-level syllabus

Video games have found a place at the heart of modern culture to such a degree that the OCR exam board is to make them the subject of a module within a new AS-level media studies course. UK teenage scholars will be looking into issues of conflict in such games, and there are certainly plenty of this nature to choose from. The module will be run alongside others including celebrity and the tabloid press, and gender and situation comedy in the course that the OCR says is in line with the aims of the Unesco declaration on media education. ...more

Virus writers pledge a poisoned love for Valentine's day

Virus writers are already gearing up for Valentine's Day, with a couple of early mass-mailers. According to UK security company Sophos, Kipis-H and VBSWG-D are already running amok, playing on hopes that inboxes will be filled with impassioned admissions of desire, come next Monday. Kipis-H is a regular mass-mailer with the message: 'With the coming Valentine's day! I very much love you. ...more

Trust bars way to mobile working

A survey by UK company LogicaCMG on pan-European attitudes to mobile working shows that although the vast majority of senior managers, boardroom execs and employees agree on the benefits, they are suspicious of how the technology would be used by each other. Nearly 60 per cent of UK employees felt that mobile working would force them to take work home, while the French would flatly refused the idea. But 85 per cent of UK employees said they would take advantage of being able to fit their job around personal commitments and 90 per cent of all employees surveyed agreed mobile working was 'a great idea and right for the company'. ...more

Bluetooth will cost you more

Bluetooth will cost business and consumers an extra $5.6bn per year, due to additional support and running costs. The additional expenditure will be necessary to correct 'security flaws and interoperability problems', according to research firm Gartner. ...more