PalmSource sends defiant message to Microsoft

Today in London, PalmSource - the company behind the Palm operating system - took advantage of the release of Palm OS 5 (use link to other story) to unveil its vision for the PDA. If PalmSource is right, within ten years Microsoft's Pocket PC may be a dim, distant memory, with the market flooded by a huge variety of devices based on the Palm OS. Talking about the way the computing market moved from mainframes to personal computers, David Nagel, CEO of PalmSource, said, 'We think there may be another transition. ...more

Dell and HP to seize over 35 per cent of the global notebook in 2003

Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Dell, the world's top two notebook vendors, are expected to each ship over six million notebooks in 2003 and together seize over 35% of the global market, according to estimates by Taiwanese notebook makers. In the past, combined sales of the two companies have accounted for over 30% of the global market, local notebook makers said. Last year, HP and Dell respectively sold about 4. ...more

Ofcom shies away from the break up of BT

Ofcom has backed away from the break up of BT in its Strategic Review of Telecoms instead it is proposing a new `regulatory contract` which will provide a proper framework for competition in the future. Under the latest Phase 2 of its strategic review of telecoms, the regulator admits that 20 years of regulation has not provided the healthy and dynamic market in fixed line telecoms that the architects of privatisation envisaged. Instead, it catalogues a history of slow product development, inferior wholesale products, poor transactional processes and lack of transparency. ...more

Yuletide boost for music downloads

Christmas and New Year proved a season of good cheer for the British music industry. Fuelled by the unwrapping of thousands of new MP3 players, the weekly digital sales topped 1m units for the first time and almost 2m downloads were sold in the last two weeks of the year. Overall, the BPI says that 26. ...more

AllofMP3 media frenzy sparks traffic surge

Amid mounting legal attacks, it seems the controversial Russian music downloads site AllofMP3.com is enjoying its time in the spotlight, benefiting from a boom in traffic. Both total pageviews and unique user levels have skyrocketed this month, reports Digital Music News, citing the traffic tracker Alexa. ...more