Palm shuffles memory cards

The main problem with owning one of those fancy handheld PDAs is that you can so easily run out of memory. Palm Inc has announced a new initiative that could mean Palm users will never be short of memory space. An announcement from the company on Wednesday said that all forthcoming Palm products will feature a slot for Secure Digital memory cards. ...more

Google blunder on stock options threatens IPO

Google is looking at an emergency stock buyback plan after it realised it had forgotten to register staff shares under federal and state regs for securities. The company, which is teetering on the edge of an expected $36bn IPO, is now offering to rescind some 28 million shares and stock options granted to current and past staff, as well as consultants, between September 2001 and June 2004. In an SEC statement filed yesterday, it said: 'These option grants and stock issuances may have violated the Securities Act of 1933 and the state securities laws. ...more

Tim O'Reilly interview - O'Reilly on Linux (part 1)

O'Reilly & Associates is celebrating its 25th birthday this year. To mark the event - and coinciding with a visit of Tim O'Reilly to London - we put the important questions to him regarding the battle between IBM and SCO, the fate of Linux, his involvement in the world of open source, and his love of science fiction.. ...more

Friendly giant of the north turns ugly over Web site

One from the "War by other means" department. It started as a conflict over importing beef, but Canada and Brazil - the unlikeliest of foes - have now been skirmishing on the Web. The two countries have joined battle over a Web site - www. ...more

Apple racks up record revenues, again

For the second consecutive quarter Apple has announced record revenues and profits thanks in no small part to a 48 per cent growth in Mac sales over the past year. The company made $430m profit on revenues of $3.68bn. ...more