Sun's McNealy wants HP-UX Solaris merger

Sun Microsystems' CEO Scott McNealy has published an open letter to HP, proposing a merger of their respective Unix platforms. In the past, Sun's top execs have been highly critical of HP-UX's future. Suns' President Jonathan Schwartz has repeatedly referred to the 'demise' and its troubled commitment to Intel's Itanium chip. ...more

LG puts a shine into its Black Label range

LG has announced its follow-up to the popular Chocolate mobile phone in the form of the Shine - the second in its Black Label range. Shine models Chocolate's sliding concept, but is styled in metal, and sports a unique 2.2in, QVGA, 262,000 colour 'magic mirror' screen. ...more

IDC: Projector shipments to double between 2002 and 2006

Digital projectors with increased brightness and higher resolutions are becoming more and more common in business and home theatre environments. According to a new study from International Data Corporation (IDC), worldwide projector shipments will climb from 1.5 million units in 2002 to 3. ...more

Cisco, Intel and BT join forces on wireless security

Cisco, Intel and BT today announced a joint initiative to ensure wireless security is built into future devices and services rather than bolted on when needed. The move has been prompted by the evolution of wireless standards - specifically the adoption of WPA version 2. As this requires new hardware rather than simply upgrading existing software, the companies see this as an opportunity to ensure equipment supports this standard from the outset, and avoid the development of proprietary enhancements to technologies that will only work when all your equipment is from the same vendor. ...more

Tablet PCs yet to top 100,000 in Europe

Devices using Microsoft's Tablet PC operating system are still struggling to make inroads into Europe, according to research group Canalys, with shipments yet to reach 100,000 since last year's November launch. With 91,950 units having been shipped to date, and figures for the quarter 20 per cent down sequentially, Canalys has reiterated its calls for Microsoft to step into the breach, subsidise the OS and establish a dedicated marketing team to drive it forward in Europe. 'Microsoft still isn't doing enough to help Tablet PC vendors - particularly in Europe,' said Canalys director and senior analyst Chris Jones. ...more