Women using Internet to meet partners

One in ten women who use the Internet have had sex with a man they first 'met' online. This new statistic was revealed by a new survey commissioned by www.newwomanonline. ...more

BlackBerry flavour for Motorola mobiles

Motorola is the latest mobile phone company looking to benefit from the success of the BlackBerry mobile communications platform. It has signed an agreement with BlackBerry maker Research In Motion, that will see BlackBerry services such as push email available on some phone models. RIM signed a similar agreement with Siemens earlier this month. ...more

Fujitsu drives in a spin

Fujitsu has introduced its MAM series of hard drives for high-end workstations and servers, spinning at 15,000rpm. With current drive speeds at the 7,200rpm mark, this more than doubling of speed allows a much greater data transfer rate, as much as 88.9Mbytes/sec. ...more

Borland's App Server updated for JDK 1.4.1

Borland Enterprise Server is a deployment system - to use Borland's terms - aimed at large-scale, business-critical systems. It provides a platform for managing a range of business applications and Web Services. Features new to version 5. ...more

Sony showcase DVR-Blue prototype

Sony and Philips showed off their next-generation optical disks for the first time at the CEATEC 2000 show in Japan. The new DVR-Blue format records data using a special GaN blue diode laser and its optical disk has a single-side capacity of 22.5Gb. ...more