Ohhh, Palm...suits you, sir!

So you got a Palm PDA for Christmas but you've got no pockets left to carry your little electronic companion. What are you going to do? Don't fear a Japanese design house have just designed a suit with the fashion conscience gadget user in mind. It's hard to believe but your average geek-boy, PDA carrying, gadget fan is hardly going to be that concerned with sartorial elegance so it is a wonder why Onward bothered to design its fancy suit in the first place. ...more

Tim Berners-Lee pursues Semantic Web at Southampton University

Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the world wide web, is to spread his talents beyond the MIT by taking on a professorship at Southampton University. Berners-Lee will use the position to concentrate on his work on the next generation of the web, known as the Semantic Web: a way of using meta data to give added layers of meaning to online information. It is seen as the long-term solution for making the vast amount of data on the Internet more manageable. ...more

HP to sell 'value' cartridges for all inkjet models

HP is to extend its high-yield cartridges to the whole inkjet family under the new XL value range. The inkjet giant today told selected journalists at its ThInk in Business event in Singapore that it will be reshuffling its consumable lines in 2007 to distinguish more clearly the gap between light and heavy users. 'What we want to give is a choice, not only of printer but also of the type of supply you can get for it,' said Eduardo Macias, HP's business development project manager. ...more

Dell to launch sub $500 notebook - report

Dell is preparing to launch a new range of notebooks costing under $500 according to reports. The new range is said to be powered by processors from AMD. Taiwanese news site Digitimes quotes notebook manufacturers in the Far East as saying that the new range is likely to be launched next month. ...more

Liberty Alliance advances online federation of identity

The Liberty Alliance has fleshed out its plans for managing user identities across Web Services - a key area for the future of the Internet in terms of managing security, privacy and the generating commercial revenues. Created back in September 2001, with a membership including Sun, Nokia, HP, Ericsson, Verisign and Sony, the Alliance is concerned with the management of online user identities (a rival to Microsoft's Password, if you will). And it has now announced the approval of its Phase 2 specifications, and the release of new Service Interface Specifications (for managing personal profiles) and a Privacy and Security Best Pracices guide. ...more