Apple leaks Power Mac specs

Apple briefly leaked details of new G5 Power Macs on its website last night, according to MacMinute. If these details are correct, then the new Macs will feature 1.6GHz, 1. ...more

Pics, music and video From PC to TV wirelessly

Connectivity specialist D-Link has introduced what it calls the Wireless Media Player which can connect a PC to a standard television or stereo errr... ...more

Mozilla, Apple, Adobe join forces to deliver richer Internet

Several of the leading players in Internet software have joined forces to develop a new browser plug-in technology designed to enable website designers to create 'richer browsing experiences'. The Mozilla Foundation, Adobe, Apple, Macromedia, Opera and Sun Microsystems will extend the Netscape Plugin Application Program Interface, making it more open and scriptable, to allow greater interactivity with plug-in technologies such as Flash, Shockwave, QuickTime and Java. The Mozilla Foundation explains: 'For example, a user shopping for clothing on a website that takes advantage of the new plugin capabilities could mix and match different styles and colors for shirts and pants using an interactive Flash movie, and pricing and other information in an associated Web page would be updated as a result. ...more

iPod has blocked WMA support

Future versions of the iPod could support the Windows Media Audio format, if Apple decides it is necessary. Not only does the PP5002 processor at the heart of the iPod support both decoding and encoding of WMA files, but there is even an icon ready and waiting in iTunes (in Mac OS X control-click the application to show package contents and navigate to Contents:Resources:iTunes-wma.icns). ...more

Mobile devices turn up the heat

Shipments more than double, with the Nokia 7650 putting Symbian at the top of the OS charts Figures for EMEA (Europe, Middle-East and Africa) shipments of mobile devices in Q3 showed a 104 per cent growth over the corresponding quarter in 2001, figures from research group Canalys show. This puts an end to four consecutive quarters of decline. The market is led by the introduction of a single phone, Nokia's 7650, which has been in such demand by retailers that Nokia temporarily ran out of stock in September. ...more