Nokia unveils next-gen Communicator

Nokia has announced the successor to its Communicator hybrid smartphone: the Nokia 9300. The device opens up to reveal a full keyboard and 65,536 color screen with eight buttons for key applications and a five-way joystick for easy navigation. It boasts 80MB of memory, which can be expanded through SD/MMC cards and it also features Blutooth and infra-red wireless links to hook up with other devices. ...more

Apple takes Power Mac G5 to 2.5GHz

Apple has revamped its Power Mac G5 range, with faster processors and frontside bus speeds and an 8X SuperDrive. The top-of-the-range dual 2.5GHz model is the first Mac ever to have a liquid cooling system to cope with all that extra heat and its 1. ...more

Openreach hits the road

Today, BT is officially spinning off its local engineering business as a separate entity. The new company Openreach, will employ the company's 25,000 field engineers. BT says that the new company's 22,000 resprayed vans will become a familiar sight on Britain's roads. ...more

CORRECTION: First Blu-ray players may not play movies on 50GB discs

Despite an article on The Digital Bits claiming Samsung's BD-P1000 could not play double-length 50GB discs, Samsung has assured us that the device does and always has been able to play these discs Early adopters of Blu-ray players may be about to discover that they cannot view the first movies to be released on 50GB discs, according to The Digital Bits. Citing multiple sources The Digital Bits' editor Bill Hunt said that Samsung's BD-P1000 as well as forthcoming players from Sony and Pioneer will not play the double-length discs, due, at least in part, to the fact that they were not available for testing when the players were being finalised. 'As you can imagine, there are a few studios that are anxious to get these 50GB BD-ROM discs to work properly, because there are a number of longer films waiting on them,' Hunt said. ...more

Parallels updates its virtual PC system

Parallels has updated its virtual PC system, Workstation 2.0. It enables users to run networked, independent virtual machines on a single physical system. ...more