US shoppers stampede for used laptops
Thousands of shoppers are reported to have stampeded to get their hands on cheap second-hand Apple iBooks at a sale in Richmond, Virginia, yesterday.
Various US media reports said the sale featured four-year-old iBooks priced at $50, instead of the usual $999 to $1 299.
Customers were so desperate to get their hands on the 1 000 laptops on sale that people were thrown to the pavement, one was beaten with a folding chair and one woman wet herself rather than lose her place in the line.
Delays in virtual red light district
A plan for a virtual red light district in the form of a .xxx domain has been delayed because of concern among US government officials, reports BBC News.
Officials from President George Bush`s administration have called for the plan to be put on hold until further studies have been done on the impact it would have.
The domain was given the go-ahead by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers in June, five years after it was first proposed.
Toshiba unveils hard drive with PMR
Toshiba has introduced what it claims is the first hard drive using perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR), reports The Inquirer.
Toshiba says PMR technology gives higher and more stable recording densities.
It said it has released a 1.8-inch hard drive aimed at the consumer electronics market, with a storage density of 40GB on a single platter.
The 1.8-inch drive is already fitted into one of its own products, an MP3 player dubbed the Gigabeat F41, which the company claims will store up to 10 000 songs.
Intel moves up Paxville server schedule
Intel has accelerated the availability of its dual-core, hyper-threaded Xeon processors to 2005, reports PC Pro.
The company said development is ahead of schedule on its next-generation 90nm dual-core Intel Xeon processor MP (Paxville).
Originally due in 2006, Intel plans to introduce Paxville for servers with four or more processors later this year.
Intel claims Paxville will provide more than 60% better performance than previous generations and will use the Intel E8500 chipset, which has been designed for dual-core performance and was introduced earlier this year.
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