Tungsten E2 launches

palmOne has unveiled the latest addition to its PDA line-up, the Tungsten E2. The handheld has a 320x320, 65,000 colour display and is powered by an Intel 200Mhz Xscale processor, running Palm OS Garnet (v5.4). ...more

Tiscali teams with CinemaNow to serve up movies on demand

Tiscali is teaming up with CinemaNow to provide movies-on-demand for its broadband users. The new service will be available in the UK, Germany and Italy from early October and will offer movies to either download or stream for ?1.99 each. ...more

Dixons closes a third of its UK shops

More than one hundred Dixons stores are to be closed following 'disappointing trading' results. The High Street electronic retailer is to close 106 of its 320 stores across the UK within the next three months. It is reported that 1,000 jobs will be affected, but Dixons states that it 'expects to redeploy a significant number of the staff in other group stores' (the Dixons Group also contains PC World, Currys and The Link). ...more

BT starts legal action defending its hyperlink patent

BT has taken US ISP Prodigy Communications to court in an attempt to recover licence fees over the use of hyperlinks. BT hopes to force all ISPs that use hyperlinks to pay the telco a licence fee. This move is believed to be the first of many, as the company contacted 16 ISPs, including America Online, back in June with a request for licence fees and hired intellectual property licencing firm QED. ...more

Yahoo forms consortium to digitise world's archives

Internet portal Yahoo! has finally made its response to the Google Print initiative. Together with Hewlett-Packard and Adobe, a number of the world's top libraries and archives have come together to form the Open Content Alliance. Initially, the material for the archive will come from the University of California, the University of Toronto, the British National Archives, O'Reilly Media, Inc. ...more