HP's wider notebook aims at the desktop nervous

HP will introduce a wide-screen consumer notebook aimed at those that still fear bringing home a desktop PC. Although you can put it away once you've finished using it, it's smooth styling is easy on the eye. A 17in TFT screen means there's plenty of room on the other side of the hinge for a full-size keyboard and numerical pad. ...more

Adobe announces Premiere 6.0

Digital video editors can look forward to the latest release of Premiere 6.0 from Adobe, which features several interesting functions. This new version of the popular video-editing package has been revamped with the World Wide Web in mind, with multiple-export capabilities in QuickTime, RealMedia, Windows Media and MPEG formats and the ability to include markers in your movies that spawn HTML links during playback. ...more

Zen Internet cuts prices

Zen Internet is cutting the price of its broadband offerings with free activation across all its services. The cut follow's BT's recent reduction of the ADSL wholesale price, despite predictions that this would not be passed on to end users. The new prices are as follows: ZenADSL Home (512Kbps) ?23. ...more

Sony launches slim CD writer

If you thought that portable CD writers could get no smaller, you are about to be proved wrong as Sony reveals its new mini CD writer. The CRX75A-RP is one of the smallest and lightest CD writers on the market that can manage an 8x write, 4x rewrite speed. It weighs just 200g and measures 129x15x134mm making it just a little larger than a CD. ...more

ATi thinks media encoding is better in software

Doing MPEG2 encoding in hardware is no longer necessary, according to ATi. Its new app takes advantage of powerful processors to offer this function in software and free up a PCI slot in computers. ATi's software MPEG2 encoder for PCs, the ALL-IN-WONDER Encode, means that the company can combine TV card capabilities on a single AGP graphics card. ...more