Apple Computer Inc. and the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) have issued a recall of 128,000 batteries -- the second in less than a year.

 

 

Bill Gates kept the heat on Google yesterday by lifting the skirts on MSN’s new local search and mapping service. Gates demoed “MSN Virtual Earth” - a new local search service which will combine local search with maps and satellite pictures.

 

 

IBM, Infineon and Macronix have announced a joint research initiative to explore the potential of a new form of computer memory technology, coined as phase-change memory (PCM).

 

 

The solid-state disk (SSD) uses memory chips in place of the mechanical recording system used inside hard-disk drives, and has several advantages including lower power consumption and higher data rates.


                            (Last Update 23, May 2005)