Vodafone live! living up to expectations

Vodafone has announced that it has signed up 380,000 customers and is on target for a million users. Vodafone has announced that it has signed up 380,000 customers for its live! service, which offers picture messaging, games and other multimedia services through a mobile handset, in the two months following its 31 October launch. Sir Christopher Gent, Chief Executive, said: 'In the first two months of Vodafone live!, we have achieved over 380,000 customers across eight markets and are on track to achieve our target of a million sales to customers by the end of March. ...more

Cut and paste from Solaris to Windows

The best of both worlds, maybe - a PC running within a UNIX workstation. Sun is claiming "seamless PC operability" for its new 600 MHz SunPCi II Coprocessor Card. With its PCI form factor, Sun claims "true PC hardware" status for its card. ...more

Sony spins next-generation Blu-ray optical disc recorders

Sony could be selling second-generation Blu-ray disc recorders by the end of 2004. The models will arrive too late for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens but will appear in time for the Christmas market, according to a report on the NE Asia Online website. Other vendors, such as Matsushita and LG, are planning to have models available for the summer. ...more

HP gets cold feet over Blu-ray

HP is considering dropping its support for Blu-ray and backing the rival HD-DVD format for high definition optical discs. The change of heart follows a decision by the Sony-led Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) to stick with its Java-based software for providing interactive features on Blu-ray (BD) discs. HP had asked the BDA to adopt the iHD platform, as this will be supported in the forthcoming Vista version of Microsoft Windows. ...more

VeriSign branded monopoly by rivals

ICANN has been accused of setting up VeriSign as a monopoly in the domain-name registration business. Earlier this month, ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) ruled that VeriSign would have to give up control of the .org and . ...more