Intel puts the 'n' in Centrino

Intel has updated the wireless component inside its Centrino laptop platform. In the technology trinity of processor, chipset and wireless networking, Intel has adopted 802.11n for the Wi-Fi comms. ...more

Broadband still too expensive

Price cuts over better content - that's the key to broadband ubiquity. With an overwhelming 94 per cent, voters on our recent poll plumped for price cuts as the factor that would make them sign up for ADSL en masse. The poll asked whether better content or cheaper prices were the key contributing elements to signing up to broadband. ...more

Sun plans storage technology donation to open source

Sun has announced plans to donate parts of its storage software and hardware technology to the open-source community. The move is seen as a bid to increase the number of storage systems based on the Solaris operating system. Among the donated technologies are previously Sun-only administration features of Solaris ZFS, which will be given over to the OpenSolaris open source community. ...more

Acer renews commitment to the Tablet PC

Acer has announced a raft of new products, renewing its commitment to the Tablet PC format with a new 'sliding' mechanism that draws the screen back across the keyboard and tilts it up in a single action. The C200 Tablet PC notebook series is a Sonoma-based Centrino affair with dual-channel system memory support up to 2GB, dual-layer DVD burning, nVidia graphics, WiFi and Bluetooth wireless and of course Microsoft's Tablet PC platform. Acer also introduced the Ferrari 4000 - claimed as the world's first to use a carbon fiber casing. ...more

The world signs up to 100m broadband lines

Broadband connections have topped 100 million this year, according to analysts Point Topic, beating even the phenomenal growths trends shown by the mobile industry in the 1990s. The number of connections has risen from 10 million to 100 million in little more than three years, with China rapidly becoming a major contender. All the G7 countries now feature in the top ten for the numbers of lines, but Point Topic says China is already leapfrogging these and will overtake Korea, Japan and even the USA in time. ...more