Compaq evolves new business range

From beige box to streamlined access device, this is the intended "Evo"-lution of Compaq's offerings for business users - the new Evo range. With the gradual retirement of its current commercial PC products - such as the Armada, Deskpro, iPAQ Desktop, Professional Workstation and Thin Client lines - Compaq has launched its new Evo range. It comprises Evo notebook systems, Evo thin clients and Evo workstation models. ...more

BSkyB tunes into broadband

BSkyB has hinted that it expects the Internet to play a significant role in the delivery of programming over the next few years. COO Richard Freudenstein told the Royal Television Society that services will be delivered over broadband as well as by satellite. 'New Ethernet connections will allow us to deliver services such as VOD (video on demand) over a broadband pipe as well as over satellite,' he said. ...more

MandrakeSoft acquires Linux support company Edge IT

MandrakeSoft is gearing up for a full scale assault on the French corporate and public sector with the acquisition of Linux support company Edge IT. Edge IT already counts OECD, the world economic organization, Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, a French Political Science School, and Prisma Presse, a publishing company, among its customers. And with the French government recently talking up a renewed appetite for the cost-savings associated with open source, Mandrake is keen to be seen to have the stomach to cater for the support needed by the public sector and business. ...more

Nvidia announces Forceware software utilities

Nvidia Corporation has announced a new set of software tools offering new drivers and compilers, desktop management software, system management software and multimedia software. The suite of utilities, known as ForceWare, is said to work with all desktop and notebook PCs fitted with Nvidia GeForce graphics hardware. This has been made possible by the company's Unified Driver Architecture (UDA), which is forward-and-backward compatible hardware and software with Nvidia hardware and software. ...more

Microsoft claims Vista take-up doubles XP

Microsoft said on Monday that it has sold more than 20 million Windows Vista licenses in the first month since the operating system's debut of the consumer version on 30 January. The world's biggest software maker said the pace of Vista adoption is at more than twice the rate of its predecessor, Windows XP, which had sold 17 million licenses after its first two months of release. 'It's a little bit better than what we were expecting,' said Bill Mannion, a director in the Windows marketing group. ...more