Novell asserts SCO owns no Unix patents or copyright

In a series of statements that will overshadow SCO's healthy quarterly results announcement today, Novell and SCO have traded stern words, with Novell challenging SCO's assertion that it owns either the copyrights or the patents to the Unix System V operating system. Novell's CEO Jack L Messman claimed in a letter to SCO CEO Darl McBride: 'We believe it unlikely that SCO can demonstrate that it has any ownership interest whatsoever in those copyrights.' He pointed out that SCO's acquisition of Unix System V from Novell in 1995 did not include the copyrights and patents among the assets. ...more

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Here, in brief, are some of the day's other stories. ColdFusion, again Macromedia has released ColdFusion Server 5, its Web application server. For Windows and UNIX, version 5 sees new administrative tools, an integrated charting engine, and new scripting features. ...more

IBM claims WiFi chipset breakthrough

IBM is claiming a breakthrough in wireless technology which, the company says, could lead to a new generation of wireless electronic devices that are able to transmit and receive ten times faster than today's advanced WiFi networks. Based around silicon germanium compound, the chipset is able to send and receive information in a portion of the radio spectrum that is currently unlicensed and can carry a much higher volume of data. The new technology uses the portion of the radio spectrum from roughly 30 to 300 GHz, which is referred to as 'millimeter wave' frequency bands, since the waves in a signal within these bands is measured in millimeters. ...more

Microsoft IE security patch thrown in doubt

It looks likely that Microsoft will once again have to patch a vulnerability it has already addressed. The flaw involves Internet Explorer's cross-domain security model and had a severity rating of 'critical'. By the means of specially crafted HTML, an attacker could run programs on your computer when IE is used to view the attacker's website. ...more

Apple promises to be greener than its competitors

Perhaps hoping to head off an expected rebellion at its annual shareholder meeting next week, Apple has announced plans to be greener than most of its competitors. In a message titled, 'A Greener Apple,' posted on the company's web site, Jobs gave details for the first time of what the company was doing to remove toxic chemicals from its new products and more aggressively recycle old products. 'Today is the first time we have openly discussed our plans to become a greener Apple,' Jobs wrote. ...more