Suse co-founder resigns from Novell

Suse co-founder and kernel team member Hubert Mantel has resigned from Novell, reports Cnet News. Novell acquired Suse Linux in 2003.

Mantel is quoted as saying in an e-mail: "I just decided to leave Suse/Novell. This is not [any] longer the company I founded 13 years ago. I have been the maintainer of the Suse kernel for more than a decade now. I`m very confident Novell management will find a competent successor very quickly."

Computers equipped with AMD chips outsold those with Intel chips in US retail stores last month, reports the San Francisco Chronicle.

The news site says San Diego`s Current Analysis, a market research firm, found that 49.8% of desktop and notebook PCs sold in retail stores in the US contained AMD microprocessors while 48.5% had Intel chips.

The RAZR V3i has become Motorola`s second iTunes phone, reports PCPro.co.uk.

The quad-band phone includes a 1.23MP camera, and video capture and playback, a mini-USB stereo headset, Bluetooth and Airplane mode, which disables the phone components but leaves iTunes operational.

The V3i is one of four new quad-band phones announced, alongside the V3c and the RAZR in pink or blue. The other models provide MP3 playback without iTunes support.

Pinnacle Micro has announced the availability of MSI`s Mega View 588 portable digital multimedia player in SA.

The device features a 3.5-inch LCD screen and 20GB hard drive. It can connect to any USB device and users can directly transfer music, photos, videos or other document files to the 588 without the need for a PC. The device can store up to 80 hours of MPEG4 videos, but supports all multimedia formats.

The unit includes AV input/output jacks, which enable users to connect it to a TV for a larger screen or record TV programmes directly from the TV set.