iPod 'in short supply' for Christmas

Anyone wanting an iPod for Christmas may be out of luck. According to FT.com, the portable music player is 'in short' supply in many markets', including the UK. ...more

BT and BSkyB eye AOL UK

BSkyB and BT have emerged as the favourites to buy AOL UK's Internet access business. Reports that the business was up for sale emerged ten days ago and since then various big-name firms have been mentioned as possible buyers, including Carphone Warehouse, Vodafone and Google. However it appears that the field has narrowed to just two, though both are baulking at the rumoured $1bn asking price. ...more

Treo hits the UK high street

Start communicating. The UK enjoys its first chance to get its collective hands on Handspring's Treo 180 and 180g communicator products today, courtesy of mmO2, exclusive licensee of the new Handspring PDA/phone for the UK. Only available with a contract to the BT Cellnet network, the Treo will set you back a cool ?299 including VAT. ...more

Shuffle makes a splash

The iPod shuffle claimed 43 per cent of the worldwide flash player market in February, Apple said yesterday, quoting figures from NPD Techworld. Its success has boosted Apple's share of the market for all portable music players to around 70 per cent; over 90 per cent of all hard drive players sold are iPods Apple sold over five million iPods in the last three months, its best return yet, but declined to give separate figures for the three varieties. The iPod-compatible iTunes Music Store has between 70 and 75 per cent of the global downloads market. ...more

Intel looses Grantsdale, Alderwood, Pentiums and Celerons in launch bonanza

A busy day for Intel - launching the new PCI Express, multimedia-supporting 915P, 915G and 925X chipsets, the 775 pin Pentium 4, debuting new model numbers and the arrival of the Celeron D chips with their cut-down version of the Prescott processor core. The new, much heralded chipsets - codenamed 'Grantsdale' (915) and 'Alderwood' (925) - are Intel's third-generation desktop graphics core. They support PCI Express, DDR2 memory, High Definition (HD) video, 7. ...more