Mobile Pentiums get faster

Lighter notebooks and sub-notebooks are the intended home for Intel's latest Pentium III-M chips, including one running at 1.2GHz. There are six new processors in total, with the fastest now running at 1. ...more

US search engine marketing booms in 2005

The Wall Street analysts who are predicting a $600 a share price for Google are not as barking as they might seem, if the latest figures from SEMPO - the mainly US Search Engine Marketing Professional Organisation - are to be believed. According to the research by the industry group, North American advertisers spent $5.75bn on Search Engine Marketing (SEM) in 2005, which represents a 44 per cent increase over the 2004 total. ...more

Comment: Praying for electronic music distribution

There's never been a better time to be an American lawyer, especially if you specialise in electoral law or copyright infringement. I've lost track of the Florida recounts and of the number of music industry lawsuits lobbed in the direction of Napster and MP3.com. ...more

Compaq finds Microsoft's companionship

Compaq has launched a cut-down, 'free' variation of its iPaq PC. The PC-like device, which runs MSN-based software and provides access to (you guessed it) MSN Internet services, is the second such machine to come from Compaq. It joins eMachine's model, launched last month, in providing special pricing and rebates which effectively make it free. ...more

ICQ users see the Lite

Although ICQ Lite only weighs in at 1.7Mbytes compared with the 3.88Mbytes of its big brother ICQ 2002a, it packs in all the features most often used in an IM program. ...more