JVC delivers audio sliver

With equipment getting smaller and smaller, it comes as no surprise that JVC has developed an extremely thin speaker. The new Direct Drive Stick Speaker, or DD Speaker, measures just 30mm in width, 15mm thickness and a length of 135mm. Even though the new speaker looks like it wouldn't knock a fly off a rice pudding, the DD Speaker can handle an input of 25W and makes the ideal companion to one of those new-fangled, flat TV sets. ...more

Movie Studios steps up fight against file sharers

The US movie industry has stepped up its fight against the illegal copying and sharing of films with a second wave of lawsuits against file sharing network operators. The Motion Pictures Association of America (MPAA), which represents all the major studios, would not say how many suits it had filed against networks that use BitTorrent or eDonkey software. One such service - www. ...more

Prism sparkles for Handspring

The much-hyped Handspring Visor Prism and Platinum are finally rolling on to the highstreet. However, it's the $449 16bit Prism that has got everyone drooling. Its USP is a large colour screen capable of handling more than 65,000 colours. ...more

FileMaker in the Palm of your hand

FileMaker has released a FileMaker Mobile Companion for PalmOS. Users of the best-selling database program can now bi-directionally transfer and synchronize files between their desktop and palmtop computers. FileMaker Mobile allows users to select and load the data they require from the desktop machine onto their PalmOS handheld. ...more

Comment: What's gone wrong at Dell?

There's one, insurmountable problem about being at the top: the only way is down. For Dell, formerly the world's largest PC maker by a distance, the downward spiral is looking ominously steep. For the crucial fourth quarter of last year, Dell saw its PC shipments slump by more than 8 per cent year-on-year, according to research from IDC. ...more