Spamhaus risks losing .org domain name

Leading anti-spam operation, Spamhaus is threatened with losing its domain name, which would effectively put it out of business. The challenge comes from a company that says that blacklisting by Spamhaus had caused it lost business and jobs. In September an Illinois court awarded e360 Insight damages against Spamhaus to the tune of $11,715,000 and a permanent injunction to prevent Spamhaus from blacklisting the firm in the future. ...more

Microsoft offers $1 billion to settle lawsuit

No, not the anti-trust lawsuit. This was an over-pricing lawsuit.. ...more

iPod drives Apple financial success

Apple is touting record revenues and earnings for its fiscal quarter ending 25 June. Executives boasted 'highest Mac sales in over four years,' and 'record iPod sales' as contributing to massive revenues of $3.52bn. ...more

AMD launches 'next generation' Opterons

AMD has announced a new range of what it is calling 'Next-Generation' Opteron processors. The company has announced three models in the range with a top clock speed of 2.6GHz. ...more

iTunes usage doubled in 2006

The number of unique users of Apple's iTunes software rose by 47.5 per cent in 2006, easily outstripping the growth of alternative media players such as RealPlayer and Windows Media Player (WMP). The figures, compiled by WebSiteOptimization with data from Nielsen//NetRatings, show that while iTunes installations almost doubled, Real Player usage grew by 9. ...more