Palm unveils compact laptop device

Palm has introduced its long-awaited 'third product', a compact portable computer to accompany its Treo smartphone. The new Foleo is about the size of a hardcover book and, at around 1.1kg, half the weight of other small laptop computers. ...more

Eclipse adds flexible broadband speeds

Eclipse Internet has introduced two new ADSL services with accelerators, enabling the user to ramp up the speed of their connection if and when they need the additional bandwidth. The Flex range comprises a 250Kbps service at ?17.99 per month and 512Kbps at ?13. ...more

New P2P client aims to shut-out snoopers

Mute is a new peer-to-peer file sharing application that claims to be able to circumvent the measures that the US record industry use to indentify and sue individuals making large collections of music available over the Internet. Mute does this by assigning each user a random, virtual address as well as a standard IP address and by routing downloads over several computers rather than directly between the host and client machine. The combination of both factors - described in detail on the Mute website - should prevent the Recording Industry Association of America and iots snooping software from identifying the precise location of shared files. ...more

New colour Bubblejet printers from Canon

Three new colour Bubblejet printers are in town, courtesy of Canon. The S6300, S630 and S500 are aimed at the specialist/business, business and home/office markets respectively. The former can handle paper sizes up to A3, and both the S6300 and S630 can handle A4 paper at a rate of 17ppm in mono and 12ppm in colour. ...more

Sony launches multi-CD

When is a CD-R burner not a CD-R burner? When it's a Discman, like the new product Sony is about to launch. The new CRX1OU is a portable CD-R/RW drive that can also play music CDs like a regular Discman. The drive has a 6x reading speed and a writing speed of 4x, using a USB port to connect to a PC. ...more