Xpherix announces PDA pummelling iPhone

Online contacts and operator at the end of a GPRS call. Xpherix has announced iPhonebook - its online contacts service that gives mobile professionals quick access to all their phone numbers. Nick Walker, CEO at Xpherix, said: 'Wireless access to an entire address book is essential to mobile professionals and it is a service that they will be looking for from their mobile operators, especially those professionals that depend on contacting people for their livelihood. ...more

Teenage eBay scammer jailed for three years

A US teenager has been jailed for nearly three years and ordered to repay $20,000 of his ill-gotten gains after being caught operating a scam on online auction site eBay. Nineteen-year-old Cole Bartiromo pleaded guilty to offering items on the site which were never shipped to the buyer and to bank fraud for trying to dupe bank staff into cashing checks and sending the money to an offshore account he had set up. He was sentenced in a Federal court to 33 months. ...more

Sun unveils Sun ONE Instant Messaging 6.0

Instant messaging for enterprises, courtesy of Sun Microsystems. As well as chat and conferences, the enterprise-scale software supports the use of alerts, news, polls and file transfers. New features in version 6. ...more

Broadband to arrive at Scottish Islands

Three of Scotland's main island groups are to get fixed-line ADSL broadband for the first time. THUS, working together with BT Scotland, has announced plans to take broadband across the Minch and Pentland Firth to the Western Isles, Orkney and Shetland. The fast Internet access is scheduled to arrive in the Spring of 2004. ...more

Abit launches AL8 Series

Abit has launched its AL8 Series of motherboards, which is based on the Intel 945P chipset and provides support for support for Pentium 4 (LGA 775) processors, dual DDR2 memory, 7.1 channel HD audio, and PCI Express graphics. Shipping with the Guru interface software to tweak and overclock settings, the latest version works with the Guru Clock peripheral, which allows you to overclock the system while playing games or running other applications in full screen mode. ...more