AMD phases out Athlon for Phenom

AMD will phase out the Athlon brand on its next generation of top-end K10 CPUs, it has announced. It will be replaced by a 'Phenom'. According to AMD's marketing, the CPUs will 'allow users to experience the phenomenal'. ...more

Sony deals another blow to MP3

It has been reported that Sony and Vivendi Universal may use Microsoft's Windows Media format rather than MP3 for their digital music download service Pressplay, formerly known as Duet. The two companies are apparently in negotiations with Microsoft at the moment. If the deal does become a reality, it means another blow for the MP3 format, which has had a bad week so far. ...more

Tesco nets 1,500 orders per hour

It seems that a lot of people just cannot be bothered to go grocery shopping anymore and why should they when supermarket chains like Tesco has an online shop? British consumers have embraced Tesco.com with up to 1,500 orders being processed per hour, yielding a turnover of ?5m per week and the company intends to extend that figure in the future. The increased revenue from the website has been generated by a redesign of the site, which now offers faster customer response time. ...more

Cherry accused of picking Pear's fruits

The release of a new emulator that allows PC users to install Mac OS X has been dogged by controversy, after it was discovered that it has significant similarities with an open source emulator. Early testers of Maui-X Stream's Cherry OS report that it boots up in exactly the same way as the open source PearPC, has the same error messages and 'nearly identical' source files. 'When you examine the executables, it's still got so many identical strings that aren't just generic,' Dave Schroeder, a senior systems engineer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison told Wired. ...more

SCO accuses IBM of delaying tactics

SCO has filed a document in its ongoing litigation against IBM that alleges Big Blue is using delaying tactics to withhold vital evidence from SCO. In a memo that was filed to support its bid to have the Judge force IBM to hand over documents that would help build SCO's prosecution it alleges that IBM is being deliberately unhelpful in meeting SCO's requests 'Had IBM properly answered this request a year ago, when required, [it] would have provided direct evidence relating to the heart of the claims at issue in this case,' it reads. It says that the AIX and Dynix source code offered by IBM does not contain details of who wrote which parts and when. ...more