Intel Itanium finally arrives

It doesn't seem a moment ago that Intel revealed its Pentium 4 processor. Well, now the company has announced that its much-heralded 64-bit Itanium processor will start shipping ready for workstations and servers in June. Intel expects over 20 computer manufacturers to offer more than 35 different models of PC containing the new Itanium chips. ...more

Now Cisco bitten by disgruntled shareholders

The after-shock of the dot-com collapse has passed, but the recriminations are starting to bite from those who saw their investments disappear. The latest case involves Cisco Systems. A US pension fund - an institutional investor in the networking company - has started a class action on behalf of all those who bought Cisco shares in the period between 10 August 1999 and 6 February 2001. ...more

RIM wins US Patent Office battle

Research In Motion, the company behind the popular Blackberry wireless email handheld is breathing a sigh of relief. The company has announced that the US Patent Office has issued 'non-final actions' against two of the patents held by technology company NTP. In effect they are held to be invalid This leaves RIM facing only one issue of patent infringement as now seven of the eight original patents on which the NTP case was based have now been declared invalid. ...more

LEGO goes to the movies

Things have moved on a lot since I was first introduced to these plastic building blocks when I was a wee nipper. First, they tried to put motors into LEGO blocks, then it was computers and now those Dutch scallywags want our children to have hands-on experience of video editing with their brand new LEGO Moviemaker package. Produced in association with Pinnacle Systems, the pack includes LEGO studio software, which has been aimed at the younger Steven Spielbergs out there. ...more

Palm announces MP3 package

Palm has announced a digital music package for its m100 and m105 handhelds, incorporating the port?son MP3 player and Liquid Player Plus software. The port?son is an MP3 player that 'snaps on' to the back on the Palm, with 32 or 64MB of built-in flash memory expandable via a SD/MMC flash card expansion port. When connected to a Palm it can be used with Liquid Player Plus to import music, rip music from CDs and manage play lists and burn CDs via the port?son's USB connection. ...more