Virtual PocketPC to appear in Visual Studio.Net 2003

It was only last month that Microsoft acquired Connectix technology - Microsoft buys Virtual PC - and already it has been put to use in Visual Studio.Net 2003. Currently out in beta, the latest release of Microsoft's venerable programming sytem is due to launch 24 April. ...more

Sony reconsidering CD copy protection

Sony BMG is reconsidering its approach to the copy protection of CDs following the discovery that both the systems it has been using open security holes for PCs. Thomas Hesse, who heads up Sony's global business unit, told the BBC that the bad publicity has forced it to re-evaluate, although that does not mean that the record company is going to take a more permissive line. 'The key point to remember is that copyright infringement is a huge issue for the recording industry as a whole and that's where we came from originally,' he said. ...more

LCD to eat plasma market

Plasma TV suppliers such as Panasonic maker Matsushita Electric, already outnumbered by the rival LCD camp, are expected to lose further ground as LCD TVs encroach on the 40-inch-class market, a plasma stronghold. Growing demand for higher-resolution models is also giving a leg up to liquid crystal display (LCD) TVs, promoted by Sony Corp. and many others in Taiwan and South Korea, paving the way for consolidation among plasma companies, analysts say. ...more

IBM memory gadgets infected with computer virus

'False alerts' turn out to be genuine. Owners of IBM's 32Mb Memory Keys, USB devices that can be used as handy removable storage devices, may find their anti-virus programs detect a boot-sector virus called WYX (also known as Eek) residing on the key. Late last year Network Associates' anti-virus arm, McAfee, discovered that its products detected the virus, which technicians believed to be a false positive and attempted to find out why they were receiving alerts. ...more

SCO shows its hand on Unix code violations

In the long-running Linux copyright dispute, SCO has announced that it has received US copyright registrations for Unix System V source code. It states that this is a jurisdictional pre-requisite to enforcement of its Unix copyrights. The company is effectively giving notice to users - of specific Linux system - that they will have to purchase licences to avoid the threat of action. ...more