Taipei - Taiwan is helping establish 41 digital opportunity centres in seven developing nations under a regional initiative to bridge the digital divide, a newspaper said on Sunday.
Washington - Notebook computers are the ultimate space-savers, but you give up a lot when you use them. The screens are small, the keyboards often uncomfortable, and expansion options are limited. Full-sized desktop computers, on the other hand, come with their own downsides - and foremost among them is the fact that they take up a lot of space and consume gobs of electricity.
Enter the small form factor (SFF) PC. Marrying the space-saving, power-sipping advantages of a notebook with the comfort and power of a desktop is their forte. Add in competitive pricing and a growing number of models from which to choose, and you end up with a compelling alternative to traditional PCs for those who don't necessarily need to carry their computer with them.
Hamburg - Apple's new iPhone 3G has been on the market for just a few days, but some reviewers have had access to it for weeks and have already aired their views on the phone. Most have praised its ease of use although it is by no means perfect.
The iPhone 3G supports the third generation of mobile phone standards (UMTS/HSDPA) and GPS navigation. Matthias Kremp, of the news website Spiegel Online, says users will see the biggest benefit in the iPhone's internet access speed.
Hamburg - Sometimes there's nothing worse than having a song stuck in your head. It's particularly frustrating if you picked up a melody somewhere, but don't even know the artist or title. The internet may ease your pain. Specialized online services are helping identify those nameless favourites.
There are a variety of ways to name that tune. The Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology records the user singing the tune and tries to identify it against a database of melodies, an approach known as "Query by Humming." The technology was developed at the Fraunhofer Institute in Ilmenau.
Sydney - Shopping, letter-writing, sex, music composition: there's not much you can't do on the computer these days.
Even archaeology.
Without leaving his Melbourne office, Australian David Thomas has become a world expert on the historical sites of Afghanistan's Registan Valley.
The La Trobe University researcher has pinpointed 450 sites that may have been well known to the Ghurid people in the 12th century. He's got not only the coordinates for forts, camp sites, reservoirs, dams, villages and farms but pictures as well.
Google Earth, a free service available on any modern computer, provided all the information.
Xbox 360 by next month.
Apple's new iPhone 3G has been on the market for just a few days, but some reviewers have had access to it for weeks and have already aired their views on the phone. Most have praised its ease of use although it is by no means perfect.
