Creative launches lightest-ever Jukebox

Creative Labs has announced its latest addition to the high end of its Jukebox stable: the Jukebox Zen NX. Although smaller and lighter, the Zen NX packs an impressive 30GB - a figure that Creative puts at around 8,000 songs' worth of MP3 music. It connects via USB 2. ...more

Intel's chip to make camera phones cheap

Intel announces a new integrated processor. Designed to ease the manufacturing of today's high-end feature-phones and put them in the bargain buckets of tomorrow, Intel's PXA800F processor combines processing power with dedicated multimedia components on one chip. Code-named Manitoba, the processor is manufactured using Intel's 0. ...more

BT launches SDSL availability checker

BT has set-up an availability checker for its new SDSL broadband services. SDSL services were launched this week, and are currently available through 100 exchanges, rising to 150 by January 2004. The availability checker is accompanied by some brief notes outlining several basic conditions of the service. ...more

Microsoft announces more redundancies

Microsoft is to lose 62 software testing jobs from its Windows Core Operating System Division according to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. The job cuts, said to be effective from last week are because Microsoft now feels able to replace manual testing with automated versions. The new losses are part of a general move away from manual testing at Microsoft. ...more

Judge Jackson speaks out

The US District Judge who ruled that Microsoft should be split has blamed Microsoft's "intransigence" for the breakup order it now faces. Speaking at a public forum for the first time since his ruling back in early July, Thomas Penfield Jackson said he would have preferred to see Microsoft and the government antitrust enforcers reach an agreement. ''The structural remedy was never my remedy of choice,'' Jackson said. ...more