Peugeot turns to Internet car sales

The French car maker Peugeot - part of PSA Peugeot Citroen - plans to experiment with selling second-hand cars over the Internet, while at the same time trying not to upset its dealer network. Peugeot said yesterday that it would put about 100 of its small 1007 models with sliding doors, in three special configurations, for sale on the www.vente-privee. ...more

Sanyo unveils 730MB digital camera

Sanyo has unveiled its new IDC-1000Z iDshot camera capable of filming up to 120 minutes of digital video footage or storing as many as 11,000 still images. The camera is built around Sanyo's new HRGP graphics processor, allowing video to be recorded in VGA resolution (640x480) at 30 frames per second and enabling 'high-speed' consecutive still shooting. However, to achieve the full 120 minutes of video, the resolution drops to 160x120 at 15 frames per second. ...more

Microsoft appeals must-carry Java ruling

Agreeing to disagree. As expected, no sooner had Microsoft agreed the terms of an injunction to add Sun's Java environment to Windows, but it has now filed an appeal. The emergency motion seeks to stay the order entered into court by Judge J Frederick Motz that Microsoft must carry Sun's Java within 120 days, which is described as 'extreme and unprecedented'. ...more

The phone that thinks it's a pen

Ahead of this year's CeBIT, starting 18th March, the German company has lined up some new communications gadgets, and leading the way is the mobile PenPhone (pictured). The rather neat idea is that you use the pen to 'virtually' write out phone number you wish to call and it dials if for you. It also lets you write SMS messages directly into the phone. ...more

Intel goes 64-bit for MMX for mobiles

With the boom in 3G phones and video streaming to mobile devices showing no sign of abating, Intel has said that it has developed a new version of its MMX multimedia technology for mobile devices. The new version, Wireless MMX2, offers 64-bit extensions to improve video streaming and offer better battery life to a new generation of mobile phones. MMX2 is a set of 64-bit Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) instructions similar to the Streaming SIMD Extensions (SSE) that Intel introduced for the x86 instruction set. ...more