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  • OSU Four's PCs held without charge

    Free the kit

    The future of four Ohio State University students remains in question one month after police stormed into their dormitory rooms and confiscated computer equipment used in an alleged file-trading ring. Patrick Muckerman, John Wieseman, Eric Diamond and Josh Cavinee still attend OSU, but are sans PCs after a lengthy investigation …

    Media 10 Jun 2003, 07:46

  • Tablet PC sales climb in April

    HP dominates

    Sales of tablet PCs are chugging along, despite a dip in growth during April. Context, the UK-based research firm, says that tablet PC sales through indirect channels in Europe's seven biggest economies were up nearly 14 percent in April over March. Growth in April is healthy but significantly lower than March's, when tablet PC …

    Channel 10 Jun 2003, 07:51

  • Italy finally joins the WiFi club – Portugal next?

    Hasn't quite got the idea

    The Register's Wireless LAN Channel Italy still hasn't quite got the idea of "licence-free" spectrum at 2.4 GHz, and has decided to legalise WiFi - but only if you apply for permission, says the Government. The official Government-sponsored information site (available here in English) says that it has legalised both 2.4 GHz …

    Broadband 10 Jun 2003, 08:17

  • Mobile Service Delivery and partnerships from BEA

    Market-ecture

    Recent results have shown just how tough times are for mobile operators, writes Rob Bamforth, of Bloor Research. Not only a market increasingly saturated with existing customers, competitive pressures from overseas, but also the 3G-license millstone they'd expected to be a milestone. No wonder there are so many proclaiming they …

    Mobile 10 Jun 2003, 08:24

  • Intel chips to power high end routers

    Veni, Vedi, Avici

    Avici Systems has fleshed out plans to build high end routers using network processors from Intel rather than more traditional ASIC technology. The company, a distant third in the routing market behind Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks, last week announced the availability of its Multi-Service Connect MSC platform, a family of …

    Data Networking 10 Jun 2003, 10:32

  • Apple to ship PPC970 Macs ahead of 64-bit OS X

    Smoothing the upgrade path

    Apple may not await the arrival of a 64-bit version of Mac OS X 10.3, codenamed 'Panther', before shipping new Power Macs based on IBM's 64-bit PowerPC 970 processor. Instead, a version of the 32-bit Mac OS X 10.2 - possibly 10.2.7; the current release is 10.2.6 - will ship with the machines, allowing Apple to benefit from the …

    Mac Channel 10 Jun 2003, 11:01

  • IBM, Infineon build 0.18µ magnetic RAM chip

    Coming to market in 2005, apparently

    'Instant on' computers moved a step closer today, according to IBM and Infineon claimed, thanks to the two companies' joint efforts to develop magnetic memory chips. Boffins from both companies believe Magnetic Random Access Memory (MRAM) could now come to market as early as 2005. To help bring that about, they will demonstrate …

    Channel 10 Jun 2003, 11:41

  • Sun speeds phone Java

    Progress

    Sun is speeding up mobile Java thanks to a new partnership with Intel to accelerate ARM-based code on the latter's XScale platform. This takes the form of a HotSpot accelerator for the CLDC reference that underpins J2ME, and Juan Dewar told us that it wasn't related to ARM's own Jazelle Java accelerator. Alas, Sun says that …

    Software 10 Jun 2003, 15:34

  • Sony launches Bluetooth Clié

    Reg Kit Watch Plus: Crucial releases latest Radeon card

    PDA Sony has launched its latest Clié Palm OS-based PDA, the PEG-NX73V, in the UK. Sony's touting the device as a wireless unit, and while it has Bluetooth built in, Wi-FI support comes via an optional CF Card - an interesting expansion option to offer given Sony's keenness on promoting its own card format, Memory Stick. The …

    Personal 10 Jun 2003, 15:51

  • TDK adds Bluetooth to arcade games, cash registers and more

    Releases 'building block' adaptors

    Bluetooth TDK Systems yesterday released a range of Bluetooth adaptors designed for industrial, manufacturing, utility and telematics applications. The company's blu2i portfolio comprises five products, which can be used to embed wireless capabilities in new equipment or add cable-free connection to legacy hardware. The …

    Data Center 10 Jun 2003, 15:52

  • Sun's network computer goes missing

    Dial-up still going strong

    Sun Microsystems will tell anyone in earshot that the "network is the computer," but reporters at the JavaOne show are having trouble believing the company lives by its motto. Stepping into the JavaOne press room was like a journey back in time. Dial-up cords crisscrossed over tables surrounded by an army of ancient phones. …

    Bootnotes 10 Jun 2003, 19:07