MX success fuels Macromedia profits

The success of Macromedia's MX applications contributed to a healthy profit for the last three months. For the financial quarter ending 31 December 2002 Macromedia reported revenues of $82.6m, up nearly 13 per cent on the year. ...more

NVidia to design new GPU for Sony

Graphics chip specialist NVidia has revealed that it has received a contract from electronics giant Sony to come up with a new graphics processor. Marv Burkett, NVidia's chief financial officer told financial analysts. 'We have new contracts with Sony to do some further designs'. ...more

Write once, Intel everywhere

Described by Intel as a 'cross-architecture library', the chip giant has updated its Integrated Performance Primitives (Intel IPP) to version 3.0. The release features new support for speech and video processing. ...more

Siemens launches its first GPRS phone

The first slew of GPRS phones is about to hit our shores and Siemens have joined the queue with its announcement of the S45. It is the first phone from the company that is fully GPRS compatible and users will benefit from the improved data transfer times offered by the new network. The mobile can access WAP sites faster than ever and features WAP 1. ...more

Cross my Palm with cash

Palm is planning to charge users to upgrade to its latest Palm OS 3.5, although in an announcement last February, the company said the OS would be free to owners of earlier Palm models. John Cook, senior director for consumer product marketing at the company said that the new OS will cost less than $20 (?14. ...more