Scientists claim screen colour breakthrough

Swiss scientists have developed and produced a computer and TV screen capable of producing the full spectrum of colours within white light, rather than the restricted palette displayed by current technologies. The prototype displays pixels that change colour as a underlying polymer is activated by an electrical current, allowing different wavelengths of light to escape from the screen. The variation in wavelength means the display can generate the full colour spectrum. ...more

Mozilla heads to Cairo for Firefox 3

Mozilla has released the first alpha version of what will eventually become Firefox 3.0. Code-named Gran Paradiso, the test version of the browser uses the latest, 1. ...more

Freeserve deals connection and content bundle

Premium content and broadband connection for ?27.99 a month Freeserve has chopped ?2 off the price of its broadband rate and bundled in premium content for free. From today, customers get 150 free text messages, 20 photo prints from its digital photography service and two month's membership of its music download service for free - goodies that Freeserve reckons to be worth ?25. ...more

Abit ushers in Silent OTES

Silent OTES is Abit's name for its new heatpipe technology. For a quiet PC, the patent-pending fanless system transfers heat from the North Bridge chipset to the fins of the Collection Module, where it should be driven out of the case by air already flowing from the CPU fan. OTES stands for Outside Thermal Exhaust System, and the Silent OTES technology follows in the wake of OTES, OTES AeroFlow and Dual OTES before it. ...more

Microsoft loses $500 million plus patent battle

Microsoft has lost a major patent infringement case against small developer Eolas. A federal court in Chicago has decided that Microsoft must pay the company $520.6 million in compensation for infringing the patent held by Eolas. ...more