Six Apart scales up Movable Type blogging

Six Apart has unveiled the next version of its Movable Type blogging software. And taken a swipe at better-known software providers in the process. The beta version of Movable Type (MT) 4, provides a 'reinvented' user interface with a dashboard overview of all of your blogs; support for publishing standalone pages and managing file assets and images; new community features; and a redesigned component architecture designed to make it faster and more scalable. ...more

Liverpool raids target counterfeit games and DVDs

A six-month investigation into the distribution and sale of counterfeit CDs, DVDs and computer games has resulted in 29 arrests, following a series of dawn raids in the Liverpool area. Benefit fraud was also investigated. The operation, involving police and trading standards officers, targeted 17 addresses in Liverpool, Sefton and Skelmersdale. ...more

SCO offers some of its Linux customers its Unix IP licence free

SCO is to offer its existing Linux customers its Unix IP licence for free, and has removed its Linux downloads from public access Following its very public attack on the legal standing of the GPL licence, under which Linux is distributed, SCO has removed Linux code on its site from public access, and asked its existing Linux customers to re-register all products to get a password for access. The reward is a free Unix IP licence. A statement on the site reads: 'SCO offers at no extra charge to its existing Linux customers a SCO UNIX IP license for their use of prior SCO or Caldera distributions of Linux in binary format. ...more

Virgin's Lobster grabs ITN News for mobile TV

Virgin Mobile has added ITN's 24-hour news channel to its mobile TV service. ITN will supply rolling home and international, sport and entertainment news, designed specifically for mobile phones. Virgin's Lobster 700TV handset now provides five live broadcast channels, with ITN News joining BBC 1, ITV1, Channel 4 and E4 and now ITN News. ...more

Number of websites charging for content falls - AOP

The Association of Online Publishers has revealed that the number of websites that charge for content has dropped, the first time the figure has fallen in the four years since the AOP began tracking the market. The fall is substantial, from 63 per cent of member sites a year ago to 37 per cent. Rising advertising revenues are behind the fall. ...more