Jukebox goes multimedia

Archos has released a new portable Jukebox, capable not only of playing MP3s but also of viewing pictures, capturing and viewing video or storing up to 20Gb of data. The basic Jukebox Multimedia unit comprises a 1.5 inch colour LCD display, a 20Gb hard drive, MP3 player and photo and video viewing software. ...more

ICANN signs new contract with US Department of Commerce

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) which oversees the vital task of managing the name servers for the Internet signed a new agreement with the United States Department of Commerce (DOC) on Friday that is being hailed as a 'dramatic step forward' towards independence. ICANN has secured an agreement that recognizes it as being responsible for the management of the Internet's system of unique identifiers on an ongoing basis. It means ICANN is more autonomous,' declared Dr Paul Twomey, the President and CEO of ICANN. ...more

Star Wars worm infects gamers

Gamers looking for a free Star Wars download may unwittingly infect their PC with a new worm that produces rogue Google results, PandaLabs has announced. The worm, known as P2Load.A, disguises itself as an executable file called Knights of the Old Republic 2, referring to a computer game related to the Star Wars saga, and is spreading via P2P programs Shareaza and Imesh. ...more

Borland's new model of Togetherness boosts .Net development

'Bringing affordable modelling to the masses' is Borland's claim for its new programming support tool, Together Edition for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET v2.0. ...more

Nokia rolls out faster broadband

Mobile telecoms manufacturer Nokia has introduced its D500 IP DSLAM designed to work with the emerging ADSL 2+ standard. The company says that the adoption of ADSL 2+ by ISPs can raise the bandwidth to broadband enabled homes to 20Mbit/sec and beyond. A DSLAM or Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer, is a device which takes a number of ADSL subscriber lines and concentrates these to a single ATM line. ...more