.Net Best Awards 2001

One for competitive programmers. Microsoft is funding a worldwide competition - to the tune of $400,000 - and inviting UK developers to enter the .NET Best Awards 2001. ...more

Stick it in your family online album

A new online photo album will mean that all you keen digital photographers will be able to share family memories across the World Wide Web. PhotoBox allows users to store and share digital photos with family and friends using an online photo album. The album service is free and you get enough web space to store quite a few images. ...more

SCO investor gets cold feet

BayStar Capital is looking to get its money out of SCO and has asked it to redeem its 20,000 shares in view of alleged breaches of the exchange agreement - SCO says it doesn't think it's in breach of agreement. The company made $20mn on a $50mn investment in the Unix company back in October last year, along with the Royal Bank of Canada. BayStar says SCO - which claims ownership of the Unix operating system - is in breach of certain terms of the agreement and wants to cash in its 20,000 shares, in a letter sent last Thursday. ...more

Lifeboat thrown to notebook users

The Chief Technology Officer of IBM's PC Division, Brian Connors, was in London today briefing journalists on IBM's vision for the PC (see IBM lays out the future for idle computers). Also at the event, Michael Vanover demoed forthcoming IBM emergency recovery software for ThinkPads. (Vanover was the architect of IBM recent work on embedded security - IBM aims to reduce lifetime cost of PC. ...more

Eats, Shoots and Leaves examples on a website

Lynne Truss, author of the surprise best selling book about punctuation pedantry, has launched a website to collect examples of erroneous grammar. The writer of Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation said that since the book was published in 2003, people have continually approached her with examples of poor punctuation, prompting her to begin collecting them online. 'It would be lovely to hear from you - especially if you have hilarious examples of punctuation signs,' she explains on the site. ...more