Palm planning the $100 handheld

Palm will be unveiling the first $100 handheld PDA this autumn, interim chief executive Eric Benhamou announced this week. Benhamou noted that, 'The $100 price point has proven significant for many products, like the Walkman and the DVD player.' Palm expects the low price to significantly increase its share of the PDA market by giving it four times as many consumers. ...more

Visual Studio.NET released

It's been a long time coming, but the first major .NET release from Microsoft has been made available to MSDN subscribers. The official worldwide launch date for Visual Studio. ...more

Sony launches slim CD writer

If you thought that portable CD writers could get no smaller, you are about to be proved wrong as Sony reveals its new mini CD writer. The CRX75A-RP is one of the smallest and lightest CD writers on the market that can manage an 8x write, 4x rewrite speed. It weighs just 200g and measures 129x15x134mm making it just a little larger than a CD. ...more

Al Gore joins Apple board

Former US Vice President Al Gore has been elected to the board of Apple. Gore was Bill Clinton's Vice President from 1993 to 2001 and only narrowly lost to George 'Dubya' Bush in the race for the presidency. Whilst a member of the U. ...more

iTrip illegal in the UK

The Griffin iTrip, a device that allows you to transmit music from an iPod to an FM radio, is illegal in the UK, according to UK dealer AMMicro. In a brief statement on its website, the company says that, 'Use of the iTrip in the UK is prohibited under the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1949.' The act forbids the installation or use of radio equipment without a licence, with some exceptions. ...more