Mixed results for Blackberry court battle

Research In Motion (RIM), the manufacturer of the popular Blackberry mobile, has been left with a curate's egg to mull over for Christmas. A US appeal court has found that the company has infringed the patent of NTP but has lifted the injunction which would have prevented RIM from selling Blackberrys in the US. NTP Inc had claimed that it holds a patent for wireless email going back to 1993 - a claim disputed by RIM. ...more

New graphics cards from ATI

Graphics kingpin ATI has introduced four new graphics cards ranges aimed at the top end gamer. The PCI Express cards are based on the Radeon X1900 GPU previously known as the R580. The Radeon X1900 XT and Radeon X1900 XTX are aimed squarely at the gaming market. ...more

GPL version 3 draft released next week

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) will be holding its first conference on the next revision of the GNU General Public Licence (GPL) next week. The conference follows a period of consultation in which a first draft of the new licence will be under discussion. Last September the FSF announced it planned a revision of the GPL. ...more

Interfacing with Jakob Nielsen [part 1]

Jakob Nielsen, the world's best known expert on Web site usability is in London this week fronting the Usability Roadshow. Doctor Nielsen is best known for his method of heuristic evaluation and development of Web sites with small groups of testers and incremental development. He is also the author of a number of books on usability, his latest being Homepage Usability, 50 Web sites Deconstructed. ...more

Adobe plots new PostScript for Vista

Adobe has announced the imminent release of a new PostScript print driver for Windows Vista. This will add support for high-quality output from Microsoft Office applications to PostScript-enabled printers. Adobe expects to begin delivering the software to printer manufacturers in July. ...more