Intel Masters UK gaming tournament announced

The time: December 21. The place: London's Science Museum. What's happening? 24 top UK gaming clans will be competing for a ?25,000 prize fund. ...more

Nominet proposes changes to SLD creation

The UK domain name registry Nominet is asking the Internet community what changes should be made to the creation of new Second Level Domains (SLD) within .uk. An SLD is a domain name such as . ...more

Toshiba puts HD DVD in the desktop

Toshiba has introduced the first internal HD DVD drive for desktop computers, the SD-H903A. The S-ATA drive has a blue-violet laser diode that can read and write to HD DVD-R discs and that offers support for high-density HD DVD-ROM discs, including high definition movie and video images. It also provides high-speed read and write to all the many types of DVD and CD discs. ...more

SCO scoops $50m investment

Investment firm BayStar Capital has bought options on some 2,953,000 shares of SCO common stock in a $50mn purchase. In a conference call today, CEO Darl McBride said: 'The opportunity to build a war chest was too good to pass up.' SCO said the cash will fill its coffers to the tune of $61mn and would contribute towards both growing its SCO's Unix business, with the development of its Web services SCOx arm, a refresh of its Unix server products and pursuing its IP claims through its SCOsource division. ...more

US Patent Office upholds Eolas patent

The US Patent Office has upheld the controversial Eolas patent for calling programs from across the Internet. The announcement is a blow to Microsoft, which is engaged in a long running dispute with Eolas and the University of California - the organisations that sued the software giant over patent infringement. The disputed patent 5,838,906 describes technologies that allow a browser to call programs over the Internet such as Microsoft's own ActiveX, which is often used to display a wide range of multimedia content such as streaming audio and video in a Web page. ...more