Yahoo! buys Konfabulator

Yahoo! has bought Konfabulator, the software that brought widgets to the Mac and latterly to Windows. Apple has since developed its own widget environment, Dashboard, and integrated it into the latest version of OS X. It was assumed that Konfabulator would quietly die; instead the developers brought out a Windows version good enough to attract the attention of the Internet search giant. ...more

Yahoo! crawls the Web from new address

Yahoo! has finished moving its Web crawler to a new domain. Slurp, which indexes pages for Yahoo!'s search engine, will now operate from crawl.yahoo. ...more

Munich gets cold feet over Linux switch

The City of Munich is stepping back from its planned Linux switch, citing potential legal and financial dangers posed by software patents. According to German news site heise online and other reports, the chief information officer of Munich, Wilhelm Hoegner, said that the LiMux project would make no further progress for the time being. Patent expert Greg Aharonian, believes such fears are unfounded. ...more

RIM prepares for meltdown

Research In Motion, the manufacturer of the Blackberry wireless email device, is preparing for the worst. The company is now seeking to reassure its thousands of corporate customers that if a court issues an injunction that orders an immediate shutdown of its operations in the United States. It has also prepared a new version of its software that does not infringe the disputed patents, which it is ready to distribute to its thousands of US customers. ...more

Intel doubles profits but generates warning signs for the future

It's steady as she goes for Intel, as the chip giant reveals its latest quarterly financial results - a three month period in which it launched the Grantsdale and Alderwood chipsets, the Celeron D, and introduced 90 nanometre processors into the laptop market. Flat sequential figures - comparing results with the previous three months - disguised some large year-on-year increases. According to its second quarter figures, sales of $8bn represent an 18 per cent year-on-year increase but sequentially flat on the previous quarter. ...more