Gigabyte to offer ATI RX330-based motherboards

Gigabyte Technology will be the first motherboard company to feature the discrete ATI RX330 chipset, with the board to be released by the end of this month, according to market sources. The ATI RX330 supports Intel's Pentium 4 processors and will compete in the same market segments as Intel's 865PE chipset, the sources noted. The RX330 also features an 800MHz FSB and dual-channel DDR memory, but does not include PCIe support. ...more

Apple fine tunes iTunes

Apple has issued an update for its iTunes software. Version 7.0. ...more

BBC prototypes Web 2.0 for Radio 1

The BBC has demonstrated a prototype version of the Radio 1 website that deploys Web 2.0 technologies designed to enable new levels of user interaction. Jason DaPonte, executive producer of bbc. ...more

No tablet, no PDA, says Jobs

Apple CEO Steve Jobs says that the company has no plans to introduce a tablet-style Mac, describing them as 'niche' devices. Interviewed on stage at the D:All Things Digital 'executive conference', Jobs said that Apple had taken a look at the tablet - a notebook computer into which data can be entered by writing or drawing on the screen - and thinks it is going to fail. Tablets appeal to rich guys with plenty of other devices already, said Jobs, 'and people accuse us of niche markets!'. ...more

Comment: A wrong message from the top

Tony Blair is a self-confessed technophobe, so imagine my surprise when I received an email from the Prime Minister in March. My first suspicion was that this was some sort of spoofing scam, but I was sufficiently intrigued to read on. 'For Mr Howard to take one case and use it to undermine the whole of the NHS is typical and wrong. ...more