World's smallest' printer fits in your hand

The 'world's smallest self-contained mobile printer' is about the size of a PDA. The m-PRINT measures just 158mm long, 17.5mm deep and 97mm wide and weighs 300g. ...more

Compaq signs up for caffeine-based technology

Omnipresent technology, transparently available to users, is a well-known futuristic concept. Starbucks is still keen to try and give a coffee-house twist to the idea. Compaq have been signed up, in the form of "five-year strategic relationship", to join Microsoft in the provision of computing services to reclining Starbucks customers. ...more

Jukebox goes online

A manufacturer of vintage, 50s-style jukeboxes has built a new model that gets its music not from vinyl records or CDs but streamed over the Internet. Rock-Ola's E-Rock has been developed inconjunction with Ecast's Location-Based Broadband Network, which delivers licensed music, video and games to public access consoles across the US. The E-Rock's 19in touch screen display gives access to Ecast's ever-expanding library, currently comprising more than 130,000 songs licensed from the five major record labels and 'many' independents. ...more

UK increases its appetite for broadband

If figures released today by Ofcom are any indication of the nation's appetite for broadband, Britain is still hungry for high-speed connectivity. More than 13 million UK homes and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are now broadband-enabled, compared with 9.9 million a year ago and an even smaller tally of 330,000 back in 2001, according to the regulator's Digital Progress Report. ...more

Novell upgrades its Small Business Suite

Novell has announced version 6.5 of its Small Business Suite, for networking and collaboration. New features of this release include a doubling of the number of users supported - up to 100 users - and simplified licensing and configuration wizards. ...more