eBay loses latest battle in patent dispute

eBay has lost the latest round in its long running battle with shopping site MercExchange over the use of the `Buy it now` feature used on the auction site. A US appeals court has upheld a $25 million damages award against eBay awarded by a court in 2003. A jury found that eBay had infringed MercExchange's e-commerce patent. ...more

Fujitsu spins laptop drive as world's fastest

Fujitsu has unveiled what it describes the world's fastest laptop drive with 160GB of storage. The new MHW2160BJ is a 3Gbit/sec Serial ATA 7,200rpm 2.5-inch hard disk aimed at high-performance laptop computers. ...more

PalmSource sends defiant message to Microsoft

Today in London, PalmSource - the company behind the Palm operating system - took advantage of the release of Palm OS 5 (use link to other story) to unveil its vision for the PDA. If PalmSource is right, within ten years Microsoft's Pocket PC may be a dim, distant memory, with the market flooded by a huge variety of devices based on the Palm OS. Talking about the way the computing market moved from mainframes to personal computers, David Nagel, CEO of PalmSource, said, 'We think there may be another transition. ...more

Dell and IBM see revenue growth for the server market

The global value of the server market was $12.3bn in the last three months of 2002, according to the latest figures from IDC. Although this represents a year-on-year decline of 5. ...more

Take some pictures with your Palm

A new gadget from Kodak enables Palm users to turn their PDA into a regular digital still camera. The Kodak PalmPix connects to almost any current Palm model and gives you the chance to take pictures with your organiser. The unit features two picture resolutions, a 2x zoom, and it can store one picture for every 100k of available Palm memory. ...more