Archive video: Telstar is launched
Telstar, the world's first telecommunications satellite, launched 50 years ago this week.
Telstar, the world's first telecommunications satellite, launched 50 years ago this week.
Telstar, the world's first telecommunications satellite, launched 50 years ago this week and one of the first things it carried was a news conference by US President Kennedy.
PC World puts Apple's Siri and Google's voice search to the test, with surprising results
PC World puts Apple's Siri and Google's voice search to the test, with surprising results
In the world of computer memory cards smaller, faster and higher capacity is good. Smaller cards mean smaller gadgets, faster cards mean less time spent waiting and higher capacity cards mean less are needed to hold a day's music or a week's photo memories. Through a series of developments announced over the last week card manufacturers have delivered all three and, as a piéce de résistance, are also cutting prices.
Intel will launch a major foray into the notebook computer market this week with the launch of six new processors under the name Pentium M.
A software bug in a program running in an air traffic control computer grounded all flights across Japan last Saturday morning.
Samsung Electronics has developed an optical disc drive for notebook computers that is 25 per cent thinner than existing drives, and also lighter and more efficient, according to the company.
The nine companies behind the Blu-ray Disc format have begun licensing the advanced optical disk technology to third party manufacturers.
Samsung Electronics is taking a 5 per cent stake in smart phone operating system software developer Symbian.
Toshiba has announced it plans to begin selling flash memory chips based on M-Systems Flash Disk Pioneers' flash memory capacity-doubling technology.
Intel has told developers that its SA-1110 StrongArm processor will not be available for much longer.
Fujitsu Display Technologies is getting out of the increasingly competitive commodity LCD (liquid crystal display) panel business to focus on high-end panels.
Internet auction site eBay has acted to prevent people trying to auction purported debris from the space shuttle Columbia which was destroyed in an accident on Saturday (US and Japanese time).
Production of Sony Computer Entertainment's (SCEI) PlayStation 2 games console has passed the 50 million unit mark.