Intel puts the surf into surfboard

When you think of California what comes to mind? Images of high-tech Silicon Valley technology, or surfers on Pacific waves? Well, put the two together and you would come up with the very improbable Intel Wireless Technology Surfboard. This rather unique Centrino-based piece of kit will be appearing in the UK for the 2004 GoldCoast Oceanfest, held in Devon 18-20 June. The solar powered board contains a Rock T200 tablet laptop, with a 1. ...more

Pre-order your Xbox now

If you've heard enough about the PlayStation 2 pre-order scheme, steel yourself for another assault - but this time it's the Xbox that gets the pre-order treatment. Yes, you heard correctly - Microsoft's console-busting machine, the Xbox, is being put on pre-order schemes in America, over a year before it is launched. One web site, Gamestop. ...more

AOL, BTOpenworld raise dial-up prices

AOL and BTOpenworld have both announced increases in the prices of their unmetered dial-up, narrowband Internet services, from ?14.99 to ?15.99 per month. ...more

HP bundles Netscape on laptops and desktops

Netscape has announced that its eponymous Web browser will be pre-installed on all HP desktop and notebook PCs from early next year. The set-up process will include an option for setting Netscape as the default browser, which will be customised with tabs that point users at 'key' Hp and Compaq websites. 'Netscape 8. ...more

French clothing store pilots porn ads

A French clothing company is out to prove the surprising insight that sex sells and that on the Internet it is possible to show more sex - and presumably shift more product. According to a report in the LA Times Shai clothing has started showing French porn stars cavorting in the buff on a circular bed in a bid to interest the punters in ?60 T-shirts. The ads are also interactive. ...more