Palm puts 256MB of Tungsten in your hand

palmOne is hoping to rejuvenate the PDA market with the Tungsten T5's massive 256MB of flash memory. Targetting the business professional, the company claims the T5's flash memory will store data even when the handheld runs out of juice. As well as the generous portion of memory, there's a powerful processor too, in the shape of a 416MHz Intel Xscale processor. ...more

Nvidia brings Direct X 9.0 to the PC

Graphics chip designer Nvidia has announced that its GeForce FX and Quadro FX processors are compatible with the new version 9.0 of Microsoft's games driver DirectX. By using DirectX 9. ...more

Samsung gets rather dense

Electronics giant Samsung has come up with a revolutionary storage medium whose storage capacity is claimed to be quadruple that of its rivals. Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT) announced on Thursday that it has developed technology that can store the largest amount of data possible to date. The new medium is said to store up to 60Gbits of data per square inch and is based on a perpendicular magnetic storage medium. ...more

Apple rejects Adobe speed claims

Tensions between Apple and Adobe have escalated since Adobe posted a page on its Web site reporting that in a series of tests 'the PC consistently outperformed the Mac machine, at an impressive rate'. The Adobe page entitled 'The Great Render Race' reproduced test results published in last November's issue of Digital Producer magazine, which compared a Dell 3GHz Pentium 4 PC with a dual-processor 1.25GHz Power Mac G4. ...more

eBay and Mozilla team up for auctions

eBay and Mozilla have announced a partnership to bring auction services into the Firefox browser. The results of the technology partnership will be rolled out to Firefox and eBay users in the UK, France and Germany. Further detail is scant - the companies say more information on the tie-up will be released before the summer. ...more