Navman captures photo tracking capabilities

GPS specialist Navman has launched a mobile phone kit that allows users to take photos with their mobile and allow others to navigate to that point. Navman's SmartST Mobile S60 Edition for Series 60 Symbian phones boasts NavPix technology. With this, a user can find their way back to a place by simply taking a photo of it with their mobile: ideal for travellers in an unfamiliar city trying to find their way back to their hotel, for example. ...more

The Athlon XP, in mobile form

AMD brings its high-performance XP processor to notebooks. Using the 'Thoroughbred' core, four models will be available: 1400+, 1500+, 1600+ and 1700+. Converting these labels to clock speeds - these new processors run at 1. ...more

iTunes sells more music than Amazon

Apple today announced that it has sold more than two billion songs, 50 million television episodes and over 1.3 million feature films through the iTunes Store. It now sells more music than Amazon. ...more

Big Brother to cripple UK business

While pacing the floor at the Internet World 2001 show, I found myself at the Mediapps stand, a company that has commissioned a report on how the TV show Big Brother has affected UK businesses. The Big Brother phenomenon began last year and it was estimated that office-based fans were costing UK businesses ?1.4 million a week in lost productivity. ...more

The gates open to the wireless village

Let's chat. Version 1.0 specifications for the Wireless Village - a mobile instant messaging and presence (IMPS) initiative - have been announced today, along with a successful demonstration using Ericsson's IMPS server and handsets from SonyEricsson, Motorola and Nokia. ...more