You're meant to charge the reader by connecting it to a computer via USB, but a PC isn't always close by. IRex claims about a two-day battery life, but my prototype didn't quite make it that long. The 1000S weighs just over a pound, is less than half an inch thick and is a little smaller than a standard 8.5-by-11-inch piece of paper. ( www.toptechnews.com )

AFTER A SOME five years in the marketing pipeline, Nvidia graphics card users will now be able to noodle about on Adobe's new Creative Suite 4, supported and accelerated natively on a GPU. Adobe had already announced its new CS4 on Tuesday, but at a press briefing by Nvidia yesterday, shed some more light on the partnership between the two firms. Purportedly, by rewriting core imaging kernels - using OpenGL - to ensure they use the GPU instead of the CPU, Nvidia and Adobe claim to have found ways to enhance the system and make images prettier, faster. ( www.atomicmpc.com.au )

Along with General Mills, energy exploration companies, clothing designers, medical companies and financial services have also bought systems running on Nvidia chips. All of these companies share a common problem: They need hardware that can analyze a vast quantity of data and do it much faster than standard computers. ( www.toptechnews.com )

The GNOME project has formally released the mobile version of its Linux desktop environment. GNOME Mobile is based on the GNOME 2.24 desktop that was released this week, and is targeted at mobile phones, handhelds, and other devices with constrained display, input, and system resources. ( www.linuxdevices.com )

Applications for T-Mobile's G1 Google Android-based mobile phone are already hitting the market. Visa will release a mobile-payment service for Android, while games and shopping apps have also been readied for Android. The flood of apps for Google's Android highlights the shift toward mobile Web use, and the G1 will accelerate the trend. ( www.toptechnews.com )

KDDI has announced a Linux-based IP set-top box (STB) that converts and transmits TV and Web content to the Japanese carrier's cell phones. Based on Motorola's VIP1830 hardware platform, the "Au Box" also plays back music stored on the phones, and offers CD ripping, says KDDI. ( www.linuxdevices.com )

Publishers who do not take legal action against file-sharers are sending a clear message that "if you continue to infringe nothing will happen to you", according to Davenport Lyons - the law firm acting for five publishers who have taken action, adding that in the absence of legitimate defences it would take cases to court and is "confident" of success.

Speaking to GamesIndustry.biz, a representative from the law firm defended its actions on behalf of the publishers who issued 25,000 suspected file-sharers with letters demanding an immediate payment of GBP 300, or face a potential court case. The law firm said that it was an effective measure against piracy and expected other publishers to follow suit.

"It appears to be an effective way of getting the message across to a number of persons who might either actually be infringing, or contemplating infringing, copyright in computer games or other digital media," he commented. ( www.gamesindustry.biz )