Toughbooks just get tougher

Panasonic has added the CF-28 to its Toughbook range, sporting a 600Mhz mobile PIII Speedstep chip. As the toughest in the Toughbook range, its redesigned chassis adds extra resistance to heat, water and dust with a newly developed damper and stainless steel case for the 20Gb hard drive, sealed ports and seamless silicon rubber round the cabinet edge. The unit can be dropped from a height of three feet without damage, even when dropped on its corner, and complies to the IP45 water and dust-proofing standards. ...more

Sony aims low with new Cli

Sony has announced an entry-level Cli? in the US for $149. The Clie PEG-SL10 is a Palm-based device will launch during the back-to-school period in order to grab as much of the student market as possible. With a Memory Stick slot and 8Mb of memory, it comes close in specification to the m125 (although the Sony boasts a screen of twice the resolution at 320x320). ...more

Ergosoft to market PS2 browser

If you are one of the 165,000 lucky PlayStation 2 owners in the UK, you will be happy to hear that an Internet browser could soon be available for your brand-spanking new console. Ergosoft has signed an exclusive deal with Planetweb to market the software that they are developing for the PlayStation 2. Ergosoft hopes to have the browser on sale in Japan by the end of March 2001 and has an option to make the application available to other companies, so that it can be bundled with PS2 peripherals or software. ...more

EU accuses Microsoft of 'abusive behaviour' in server market

The EU's Competition Commissioner has again threatened Microsoft with heavy fines for failing, in her opinion, to meet its obligations under the 2004 ruling that it must disclose details of protocols that would enable products from other companies to interoperate with its workgroup servers. Neelie Kroes renewed concerns were prompted by statistics that showed that Microsoft's share of server market has risen to 75 per cent. In 1999, when the European Commission began its investigation, that figure stood at between 35 and 40 per cent, rising to 60 per cent by 2004. ...more

Whiter than white washing with e-Suds machines

There's a new entry in the Hall of Fame for Net-enabled devices. Courtesy of IBM comes the e-Washing Machine. Joining the ranks of the fabled Cambridge University coffeepot Webcam, and the mythical Web-enabled toasters and fridges, is the 'e-Suds' system. ...more