Steve Jobs faces Disney destiny

Steve Jobs is poised to become the largest individual shareholder in Walt Disney if the company goes ahead with plans top buy Pixar Animation Studios. The Wall Street Journal claims (via MarketWatch) that Disney will pay slightly more than the $6.7bn that Pixar is currently worth. ...more

Sundance 2002 parties online

The Sundance Online Film Festival 2002 is 'happening'. The Sundance Institute is in its 21st year and the online festival features short films in four categories: animation, live action, new forms and showcase (shorts from the land-based festival in Sundance, Utah). The winners in the first two categories are voted for by online viewers. ...more

BT denies split rumours

The chief executive of British Telecom, Sir Peter Bonfield, has denied reports that appeared in the Sunday papers that BT is about to be broken up. Speaking in The Times, Sir Peter said speculation that the appointment of Philip Hampton as finance director would mean BT would be split up was false. Hampton was instrumental in the break up of British Gas. ...more

Multi-core Cell chip gets SDK

IBM and Sony have released a software development kit to open up developer access to the Cell processor, destined for the PlayStation 3 and next-generation workstations. The goal is stimulate the growth of third-party applications for the Cell Broadband Engine Architecture (CBEA). As well as software components and documentation for CBEA technology, the kit includes extensions to Linux that support Cell programming. ...more

Bluetooth and GPS the buzzwords for new AMD flash device

AMD has announced a new 8Mbit, 1.8v flash memory device, the Am29SL800D. With initial read access times of 90 nanoseconds and 22MB/sec read throughput, AMD asserts that the device combines performance and long battery life within a small package. ...more