Palm shuffles memory cards

The main problem with owning one of those fancy handheld PDAs is that you can so easily run out of memory. Palm Inc has announced a new initiative that could mean Palm users will never be short of memory space. An announcement from the company on Wednesday said that all forthcoming Palm products will feature a slot for Secure Digital memory cards. ...more

Microsoft to support RSS in Longhorn and IE 7

Microsoft has revealed that its next version of Windows, codenamed Longhorn, will support the RSS format. The new version of Internet Explorer is also expected to support RSS when it appears later this year. The moves are expected to give a sizable push to the technology particularly when Longhorn appears next year. ...more

WiFi hot-spot bubble set to burst

Forrester Research is predicting that a proliferation of Bluetooth devices and an abundance of WLAN access points at home and in the office will burst the spot-com bubble come 2008. 'With all the hype today about the rollout of WLAN public hotspots, it's as if the dot-com boom and bust never happened,' said Forrester Senior AnalystLars Godell. 'We believe that much of the money being poured into public WLAN today to enable access - from places as diverse as bars, marinas, hotels, and airports, as well as train, bus, and metro stations - is being wasted. ...more

AOL UK up for sale

The Guardian reports that the ISP business is earmarked for sale: Time Warner to retain audience and advertising divisions. AOL UK and other international businesses in France and Germany are up for sale, according to a report in today's Guardian. The paper reports that Time Warner has hired the Citigroup investment bank to find a buyer for the services. ...more

Motorola claims display breakthrough

Motorola has unveiled a new video technology, which, it claims, will enable the manufacturing of large, flat panel displays with superior quality, longer lifetimes and lower costs than current offerings. The company's research arm has demonstrated a 5in colour working prototype based on its proprietary Carbon Nanotube (CNT) technology. Carbon nanotubes are extremely thin (one nanometer in diameter, about 10,000 times smaller than that of a human hair), hollow cylinders made of carbon atoms. ...more