Sony brings out budget colour Cli

Sony has launched its PEG-SJ33 aimed at consumers and featuring a host of multimedia applications and a colour screen. With a Memory Stick slot, 16MB of internal memory, supplied stereo headphones and audio player with support for Sony's ATRAC 3 as well as MP3 codecs, the device is ready to be used for mobile music out of the box. It also offers more visual fun through its 320x320 colour TFT screen with support for 65,000 colours and software for storing and viewing still images and video clips. ...more

Googlewhacking wildfire

Some people have obviously got too much time on their hands - and those are the people indulging in the new 'sport' of Googlewhack. The aim of the game is to enter two words into the Google search engine and come up with just one result from Google's archive of more than three billion Web pages. Sadly the game even has rules and a scoring system, which makes 'epigone groundhog' the highest scoring combination yet. ...more

Enthusiasts create eight-core Mac Pro

A computer hardware site has created an eight-core Mac Pro by replacing the Apple machine's two dual core Xeon processors with Intel's yet-to-be released, quad-core Clovertown chips. Anandtech was able to swap the chips because Intel has ensured that Clovertown - the second generation version of the Xeon - supports the same LGA-771 socket. Using a pair of 2. ...more

IBM improves chip cooling technology

IBM has been detailing a new chip cooling technique that could massively increase the effectiveness of future heat sinks. The invention is a bio-engineered gel that sits between the chip and heat sink and transfers heat. The gel doubles the effectiveness of current heat sink systems and could significantly reduce the costs of running a data centre or server farm. ...more

20 million Thinkpads later...

As the 20 millionth IBM Thinkpad computer rolls out of the factory, we talk to Adrian Horne of IBM's Personal Computing Division on the Thinkpad's mobile future. The milestones that have kept the Thinkpads ahead of the pack, according to Horne, are products such as the 700c in 1992, which he described as 'the first notebook that was truly lightweight, portable and with a colour screen'. And other innovations such as the butterfly keyboard - a full-sized fold-out keyboard that came with the 701. ...more