Firefox 2.0 beta due Tuesday

The new Firefox 2.0 gets its first public unveiling on Tuesday when the Mozilla Corporation will officially release the first beta of the open source browser. At the moment there are feature complete 'release candidates' which are available for testing. ...more

Nominet EGM votes to expand IP comms business

Members of the UK Internet registry services company Nominet voted in an extraordinary general meeting to expand the scope of the company's business activities. They want to see it in the running to bid for other internet registry services. The voting meant that the company can now bid to become the UK Tier one registry for ENUM (from tElephone NUmber Mapping) - an internationally approved method for connecting the telephone communications network to the Internet, using the domain name system. ...more

UPDATED: HP quits Itanium development programme

Hewlett-Packard has pulled out of its partnership with Intel and is quitting further development of the Itanium processor. HP said that it wanted to leave Intel free to develop the Itanium whilst it could get on with what it did best, making Itanium-based servers. As part of a severance deal, HP's Itanium development team, with its several hundred engineers, will transfer to Intel. ...more

Sun releases J2EE 1.4 SDK

Java Today reports that Sun has published version 1.4 of its Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition SDK (software development kit), i.e. ...more

Beatles demand $15mn for online rights - report

The Beatles are asking $15mn for six months' exclusive rights to sell their catalogue online, according to a News.com report. If true, such a high premium would almost certainly price the world's biggest selling group out of the range of most of the online services. ...more