MP3.com founder back with new download music venture

Michael Robertson, the man behind MP3.com and Linspire (formerly Lindows) which arguably helped to kick off the whole downloadable music culture is set to launch a new digital music company called MP3tunes. The ambitious aim of MP3tunes is to offer new hardware software and a new online music store. ...more

Sony pulls its Cli? range of PDAs out of US and European markets

Sony has announced it intends to pull its Palm-based Cli? range of PDAs out of US and European markets because of declining sales and the launch of its own mobile devices, which will compete in the same space. The move will be a blow to PalmSource, the developer of the handheld operating system. for which Sony is the number two licencee, behind PalmOne. ...more

Intel introduces "grow-your-own" die technology

Intel has announced the development of new die packaging technology that will mean processors ten times faster than today's top speeds and containing as many as 1 billion transistors. Currently, silicon chips are connected to their packaging by tiny balls of solder, or bumps. Intel researchers have come up with BBUL packaging, or Bumpless Build-Up Layer, that is "grown" around the silicon as a thin layer with high-speed copper connections. ...more

Internet2 connects at 100 gigabit speeds

The Internet2 advanced networking consortium is preparing to open the world's fastest Internet backbone which will connect Chicago, New York and Washington at speeds up to 100Gbits per second. The 20,920km network will initially be open to research and healthcare organisations and operate at a speed that could rise to 400Gbps if the higher-capacity circuits are implemented. But even at 100Gbps it is 10 times faster than the current Internet2 network, which opened in 1998. ...more

Macromedia premieres Flash 7 for Linux

Macromedia is taking Linux users to its own version of the movies, with the availability of its Flash 7 product for Linux. Flash adds dynamic, animated and interactive content to be included in websites, known as 'movies'. The new version adds Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) support to allow online applications embedded in websites to interact and exchange data in real time. ...more