Zen and the art of portable media

Microsoft's Portable Media Center will be available in the UK later this month in the form of the Creative Zen. The ?369.99 player is the first Portable Media Center device in the UK, followed by products from the likes of Samsung and others. ...more

SuSE announces 8.2

SuSE has unveiled version 8.2 of its Linux-based operating system on home turf at the CeBIT show in Hanover. Claiming to be Europe's most popular and the US's fastest-growing Linux distribution, the company is confident enough to be targeting home users with this latest edition. ...more

Microsoft improves Unix-friendly tools

Microsoft has updated its Unix-Windows interoperability tools. Windows Services for Unix Version 3.5 (SFU 3. ...more

Googling websites to get slice of ad revenues

Google has combined its 'adsense' contextual ads to its 'Websearch' programme. Web sites who choose to add Google's webwide search to their site will now get a cut of the revenues from the contextual ads shown alongside the search results. Google already had a similar scheme available to its biggest partners including AOL and Amazon, but this is the first time that it has been opened up to everyone. ...more

Rhapsody tunes up for Mac and Linux users

RealNetworks is to extend its Rhapsody.com US music subscription service to Mac and Linux users, offering unlimited access to its entire one million plus music catalogue just as long for a monthly fee. However unlike Windows users of the services, Mac and Linux subscribers will not be able to buy songs or transfer music to a portable player. ...more