IBM attacks SCO's copyright claims

IBM has filed a motion seeking a summary judgement in its favour against SCO's claims of copyright infringement because it has yet to provide any evidence of this. SCO added copyright claims and another $2bn to its mammoth $3bn suit against IBM in February after dropping one of its main thrusts in its original suit - that IBM had misappropriated its trade secrets. At that point SCO amended its case with the claim that IBM had infringed its copyrights, after revoking its Unix licence in July last year. ...more

Opera sets its browser free

Opera loves its browser so much it is setting it free. The Norwegian company has decided to abandon its previous policy of incorporating an ad-banner into the free version, with users having to pay a licensing fee to remove the advertising and receive support. The move is clearly intended to increase Opera's share of the highly competitive browser market, but at what cost to the company? Not a lot, it claims, as its focus is now on garnering new users rather than extracting revenues directly from them. ...more

First look: ATi Radeon HD 2000

Nvidia's six-month reign as sole supplier of DirectX 10 graphics hardware comes to an end this month, as ATi (now owned by AMD) launches its long-awaited Radeon HD 2000 series. The range includes chips for both desktops and notebooks, all of which feature dedicated hardware for decoding HD content, plus a range of measures to reduce power consumption. Architecture The first card to appear will be the high-end HD 2900 XT, which should be in the shops imminently. ...more

CD sales slump 20 per cent in US

CD sales in the US slumped by 20 per cent in the first three months of the year, with digital sales rising nowhere near enough to compensate. Despite a 54 per cent surge in downloads, according to the figures from Nielsen SoundScan, overall unit sales were down 10 per cent. Even adding ringtones and subscription services makes no difference to the overall picture. ...more

AMD raises the bar for 64-bit notebook computing

AMD has released a 64-bit processor to run high-performance, desktop-replacement notebooks. The Mobile AMD Athlon 64 processor 4000+ clocks 2.6 GHz and has 1MB of level 2 cache. ...more