Apple turns towards Sony for Intel laptop design

Apple is recruiting former Sony engineers to help it build its new, Intel-based laptops, according to Engadget. The website claims that a reliable source told them that Apple is 'having trouble playing catch up with the learning curve for designing using the Intel platform' and as a result has been 'scrambling' to hire engineers with experience of developing light notebooks, of which the Sony Vaios are a prime example. A Japanese headhunting firm is said to have been contracted to find potential recruits. ...more

Opera attendances rising in Europe

Opera updates its browser and claims growing European market share over Microsoft's Internet Explorer. The Norwegian company Opera has released version 6.01 of its eponymous browser, which is a 'recommended' set of bug fixes and tweaks for the last major point release. ...more

Interview: David I talks Delphi

What's in store for Delphi, why programmers should always be in control of their code and Borland's interesting relationship with Microsoft - these are some of the topics covered when we caught up with industry guru David Intersimone, the long-standing developer representative for Borland. More familiarly known as 'David I', he revels in the job title of 'Chief Evangelist', but rather more prosaically is Borland's VP of Developer Relations. He was speaking at DCON (Delphi Developers conference) 2003 in what is Borland's 20th anniversary. ...more

Apple updates Xserve with dual 2.3GHz chips

Apple has upgraded its Xserve 1U rack servers with dual 64-bit 2.3GHz PowerPC G5 processors that provide over 35 gigaflops of processing power per system. The servers also get the industrys fastest front side 1U server system bus, running at up to 1. ...more

Intel and IBM add to traffic-jam of in-car computing

You wait ages for an automotive computing system to turn up, and then three come along at once. Following on from our reports on Microsoft's Car.Net and Sun's dashboard Java, comes news of Intel's collaboration with IBM to produce an in-car client platform of their own. ...more