UPDATED: Unix licensing pushes SCO into the black

SCO has announced second quarter figures, with income from its SCOsource licensing initiative making up nearly one third of revenues. For the quarter ending 30 April, the company reported a net income of $4.5 million, or $0. ...more

IBM unveils ThinkPad T41 line, with new Active Protection System

The successor to the ThinkPad T40 line of IBM notebooks has been unveiled. And some of the T41 models feature what IBM describes as the world's first automatic hard-drive protection technology. It seems that the Active Protection System is similar in principle to the use of airbags in cars. ...more

Houston, we have 3D animation

If you fancy some cool 3D animations, check out the Hypercosm 3D player. The player has been developed by Hypercosm for business and education purposes, but there are some great examples of 3D animation on their website, including presentations for the Dremel Multipro, a docking sequence featuring the Space Shuttle and a fantastic Mars Polar Lander sequence. There are some great 3D games to play too, including a superb 3D air hockey game that will have you desperately trying to beat the computer for ages. ...more

Anyone can write code

A Cambridge-based programmer claims to have come up with a piece of software that will allow you to write a computer program using everyday language. The New Scientist tells how Bob Brennan has developed the programming kit that can turn a number of pre-programmed commands into machine code. Brennan says that his program can cut development time and uses a store of logical rules to generate the final code. ...more

Calexico chips out of Hewlett Packard's new N620C notebook

Hewlett Packard's offering in the great Centrino stakes, turns out not to be a fully fledged Centrino machine. While fitting a Pentium M processor into the Evo N610 family, HP has chosen to stay with the Lucent chipset for wireless comms for now. 'The 620 is not a full Centrino machine, we've just used the Pentium M processors,' said Steven Gale, Hewlett Packard UK's Senior Category Manager for the Personal Systems group, 'We don't use the Intel integrated wireless - Calexico. ...more