Handspring Visor wired for sound

Good Technology is to unveil its new MP3 player for the Handspring Visor at the DEMO Conference in California. The SoundsGood device connects to the PDA via the Springboard expansion slot, turning the Visor into a fully-fledged MP3 player. The device comes with 64MB of memory that allows the playback of over an hour of music. ...more

Palm plumps out the PDA range

Palm has launched two new handhelds into the UK courting Filofax fillers and wireless junkies. The former retails at a penny short of ?80 under the moniker Z22 and is designed to appeal more to the school-run worrier than road warrior with its white faschia and blue backing. Palm is hoping the Z22 will repeat some of the success of the initial Zire model, which sold a million in the first seven months after launch. ...more

'New Pentium core, laptops and 64 bit servers' abound on Intel rumour mill

Intel is to redesign the new Prescott core found within Pentium 4E processors, reports Xbit Labs. According to the Californian website, Intel is looking to reduce the power dissipation of the recently unveiled chip, which is manufactured on a new 90nm process. The report says that improved versions will appear later this month, according to company sources. ...more

Quantum computing jumps to the future

Two Swiss scientists have made a theoretical breakthrough that could bring the age a quantum computing a step nearer. Hans-Andreas Engel and Daniel Loss of the University of Basel in Switzerland have explained how to make a device called a spin-parity meter, quantum computing's equivalent of the transistor. Although they have worked out how to build one, they have not got as far as putting one together. ...more

Macromedia unveils MX 2004 line-up

Macromedia has announced a complete overhaul of its Web authoring and development tools, with the unveiling of the MX 2004 range. As well as new versions of Dreamweaver, Flash and Fireworks, the range includes a new application, Flash Professional that, 'enables developers to organise and build applications using a forms-based metaphor as an alternative to traditional timeline development.' Not for the faint-hearted, this software is aimed at developers familiar with programming tools such as Visual Basic. ...more