PROFILE: LinkGuard

LinkGuard has built a map of the World Wide Web, consisting of a massive database of URLs, or Web page addresses. Its records contain details of 100 billion Web links and can show how different pages are interlinked, or not, in cases where broken links are detected. The company's main product, LinkGuard Classic, is a subscription-based service that assesses clients' Web sites and highlights broken links to pages contained within the site, and to external pages. ...more

Microsoft anoints XML as Office 12 format

XML will be the default file format for the next major version Office, currently codenamed 'Office 12', Microsoft has revealed. The change is signalled as one of the key innovations for the next release of the ubiquitous office productivity software. As well as introducing an XML format for PowerPoint, Microsoft is promising 'significantly enhanced XML formats' for Word and Excel. ...more

New ATI X-series graphics first to support PCI Express

ATI Technologies has fired its first broadside in the battle for the PCI Express graphics market with the announcement of its Radeon X-Series family of graphics chips. The company expects product announcement from graphics cards vendors at the end of this month with the official unveiling of the PCI Express bus. The three new chips - the Radeons X300, X600 and X800 - are expected to span the whole market from budget conscious home users to state of the art games machines. ...more

Samsung to launch MIMO-equipped notebook

Korean electronics giant Samsung has announced that it plans to release a new range of notebooks equipped with MIMO technology based on technology from Airgo Networks. MIMO or Multi Input Multi Output refers to a system involving multiple antennas on a system on both the transmitter and the receiver side. With multiple antennas, the spatial difference can be used to improve the performance of the wireless link. ...more

Apple confirms lack of Vista support in Windows software

Apple has confirmed that its various Windows software products are not compatible with the new Vista version of Microsoft's PC operating system. An article in the company's knowledge base details Windows compatibility for software including QuickTime, Bonjour, AirPort, iPod Updater, iPod shuffle Reset Utility, iDisk Utility and AppleWorks. All are compatible with Windows XP and in most cases 2000. ...more