Nvidia-powered Ultra cards from Creative

Two new high-end graphics cards from Creative are based on Nvidia GeForceFX chipsets. Its new top-of-the range offering is the 3D Blaster 5 FX 5900 Ultra, which Creative boasts can 'handle any gaming challenge'. At £499. ...more

External burning at USB 2 pace

Sony has launched its CRXP90MU external CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive. The drive sports a performance of 24-speed read and write, 10-speed rewrite and eight-speed DVD read, thanks to its USB2.0 connection (which is compatible with USB1. ...more

Klez tops virus charts - again

Variants of the Klez worm were by far the most common viruses circulating on the Internet this month. Again. That's according to monthly statistics from managed services firm MessageLabs, which stopped 788,137 copies of the virus in June, compared to 524, 507 in May. ...more

Lixxus meets BT bandwidth hike with 2Mbps service

Broadband seller Lixxus has added 2Mbps services to its Pay-As-You-Go tariff. With the likes of BT boosting its services to 2MB over the coming months, Lixxus is offering the same bandwidth but only paying for the data you use, not the rate at which you receive it. The service is capped at ?44. ...more

IBM gets busy in the server wars

The battle to be top dog in the e-business server market continues. IBM has updated the pSeries range of eServers with a 24-processor p680 UNIX server. The eServer pSeries 680 - to give its full name - is the latest version of IBM's rebranded RS/6000 computer line. ...more