Here, in brief, are some of the day's other stories.

Here, in brief, are some of the day's other stories. A compact photo scanner HP has announced a compact photo scanner designed to "help users digitally share and archive photos". The Photo Scanner 1000 has USB PC connectivity and, it is claimed, can scan a photo in less than 14 seconds with 300-dpi resolution and 30-bit color depth. ...more

Motorola plays iTunes

Motorola has unveiled its highly anticipated iTunes-playing 3G phone, the E1060, at the 3GSM Congress in Cannes, France With up to 512MB of additional storage via a removable card, the phone will have the same capacity as the smaller of the iPod shuffle models, though whether it will match Apple's device for sound quality remains to be seen. Although iTunes will be the default media player, it will not be the only one. 'We're committed to have iTunes as the default music client, but we'll also continue to support other music players such as RealPlayer,' said Amer Husaini, vice president for Motorola's mobile devices group in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and South Asia. ...more

Web creator regrets addressing system

Tim Berners-Lee has said that if he had his time again Web addresses would be simpler, and arguably more logical, than the http://www.name.com we are all familiar with. ...more

Big Blue in the black as IBM beats market expectations

Big Blue is in the black according to its latest financial results, which more than met Wall Street expectations. For the three months to 30 June, IBM has reported revenues of $23.2 billion (up 7 per cent compared with the second quarter of 2003) and net income of $1. ...more

palmOne leaks details of its own handhelds

palmOne appears to be about to unveil two new PDAs, according to rumours, backed by leaked pictures, doing the rounds on the Web. The first of these will reportedly be the Tungsten E2, several pictures of which have found their way onto Engadget. The successor to the 18-month-old, sub-?150 Tungsten E is expected to arrive as early as next week, not least because a US online retailer briefly had the device on offer to pre-order, with a 10 April shipping date. ...more