Dell turns to retail - PCs could soon be in UK shops

Dell is to break with its 23-year direct sales tradition next month and start selling personal computers in North America through Wal-Mart. And it may not be long before its PCs appear on the shelves at Asda or Tesco. Dell spokesman Bob Pearson said the company plans to add additional retailers in its top 10 to 15 markets, which include the UK as well as Germany, France, Japan, China, Brazil and Japan. ...more

PC Pro: JAL upgrades Silent PCs group test winner

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Google launches Docs & Spreadsheets

Google is combining its Writely online word processing tool with its Spreadsheets offering to form a new service, the rather prosaically titled Google Docs & Spreadsheets. This latest graduate of the prolific Google Labs is intended to help users share and store documents across the Web. Working with DOC, XLS, ODF, ODS, RTF and CSV formats, there is the familiar button-driven toolbar interface, and collaborators can be invited to access shared data on the basis of email addresses. ...more

NTT DoCoMo pulls investment out of UK 3G service

NTT DoCoMo is to offload its 20 per cent share in Hutchison 3G UK, the network operator of 3 which is the UK's first third-generation mobile network. DoCoMo will receive ?120mn for its shares over three installments until December 2006. The sum will be paid in either cash or shares in another Hutchison Whampoa subsidiary if that is publicly listed in time. ...more

Actor takes on role of hacker

It just goes to show that in Tinseltown, actors will do almost anything to make the big time. One aspiring actor has ended up at the wrong end of the long arm of the law after trying to hack into an agency's computer system. Twenty-one-year-old Chad Horton, is accused of hacking into the computer system of Breakdown Services in California and attempting to steal a lucrative list of acting jobs. ...more