PocketZip hits 100Mb

Iomega has released a 100Mb version of its PocketZip drive. Previously limited to 40Mb, the PocketZip drive could be an ideal way of keeping your data mobile while keeping down the costs of doing so. The drive will be backwards compatible and able to read and write to the 40Mb disks and the 100Mb disks will still be inexpensive (about $10 each when bought in a ten-pack - currently 40Mb disks cost about ?8 each in the UK in boxes of ten, so expect that figure to be slightly more for the 100Mb version by the time it reaches our shores). ...more

RIM staves off shutdown order

The three million Blackberry users in the United States can continue using their devices a judge said on Friday. It had been feared that US District Judge James R. Spencer would order Blackberry manufacturer Research In Motion to cease all operations in the US, following the failure to have its appeal heard by the US Supreme Court. ...more

'WiTricity' powers unplugged lightbulb

A US scientist have succeeded in powering a lightbulb without wires. Marin Soljacic of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology made a 60W bulb glow by transmitting power via 'magnetic coupling'. Marin Soljacic, an assistant professor in MIT's Department of Physics and Research Laboratory of Electronics, revealed last November that he had hit upon a method for transmitting electricity via a 'non-radiative' electromagnetic field. ...more

Apple sued for patent infringement

Apple is facing legal action of the alleged breach of two patents in its iPod, iTunes and Mac products. Illinois-based Premier claims that the Apple products violate patents 6,763,345 and 6,243,725 , which describe a system for creating lists of audio works that can be visually displayed and edited, stored for subsequent retrieval and execution. In other words playlists. ...more

G8 signals renewed attack on Internet child abuse

The world's richest countries have vowed to redouble efforts to combat the sexual exploitation of children by Internet pornographers. Interior and justice ministers from the G8 nations - Germany, USA, Britain, France, Italy, Canada, Japan and Russia promised to step up efforts to stamp out child porn during the first working session of a conference on Web crime in Munich, Germany. 'We categorically denounce those who sexually exploit children by producing images of their sexual abuse and by distributing or collecting such images,' they said in the joint declaration. ...more