AOL and NTL in European negotiations

AOL is in talks with cable giant NTL to go into partnership across Europe. NTL has confirmed that it is in the very early stages of negotiation with AOL and it is thought any deal would involve AOL using NTL's Europe-wide cable network in exchange for AOL's content. The talks are reminiscent of the AOL/Time Warner deal, where the ISP successfully courted cable company Time Warner in order to get into broadband in the US. ...more

Hitachi and Microsoft team up on storage

Japanese electronics company Hitachi first announced its strategic alliance with Microsoft last year when the two companies agreed to work on Windows 2000 Enterprise solutions. Now they are to branch into data storage solutions. Hitachi announced yesterday that it will join with Microsoft to develop and market storage products, with the two companies setting up a research centre next week near Tokyo. ...more

Psion buy into Teklogix

Psion PLC has announced the successful acquisition of Teklogix International. Psion, famous for its range of handheld computers have bought into Teklogix for £242 million. The North American company is a leading supplier of portable and wireless computers. ...more

Sony withdraws PS2 pre-order forms

Sony has finally admitted that there will be a shortfall in the number of PS2 units being delivered to the UK. The news comes as no surprise as the Japanese company had already halved the number of game consoles being shipped to the US and it was likely that the same would happen for the UK and the rest of Europe. The company has decided to reduce its initial batch of units by 35,000, leaving 165,000 machines arriving on our shores on November 24. ...more

Intel finally demos 80-core processor

Intel has finally put its money where its mouth is regarding the much hyped 80-core processor. At last year's IDF in San Francisco, the company showed a prototype design that could theoretically achieve teraflop speeds - that's a trillion floating-point operations per second. We were a little underwhelmed at the time since all that was shown was a non-working wafer which was merely being used for testing fabrication methods. ...more