Nikon preps value D80 Digital SLR camera

Available from September, pricing will be ?699.99 for body only, ?899.99 with a 18-70mm lens and ?949. ...more

MS Armchair 2.0 - beta version

It seems that the multi-headed hydra of IT business, Microsoft, has already stuck a proverbial fist of fingers into a whole bakery of pies. But now, the company has gone one step further with its latest venture. Sit back, relax in your favourite chair…but you can't because you are not running the correct operating system. ...more

iPod drives Apple financial success

Apple is touting record revenues and earnings for its fiscal quarter ending 25 June. Executives boasted 'highest Mac sales in over four years,' and 'record iPod sales' as contributing to massive revenues of $3.52bn. ...more

SCO builds BSD case with GNU/Linux users

SCO has outlined its grievances with BSD code and says it plans to take this up with end users, rather than focus on determining who was responsible for allowing the code to slip into the Linux kernel. During a recent teleconference, CEO Darl McBride touched on other alleged infringement fronts on which SCO's legal firms would be deployed, forcing commercial users to stump up SCO's Unix IP licence. 'We have a situation with other settlement agreements with respect to the BSD case from a few years ago where we do have a legal settlement, we're in strong shape to go out and start enforcing these now and this is really what David [Boies] and his team are going to be expanding their focus around,' he said. ...more

Simplifying XML

SoftQuad updates its XML content creation tool. XMetaL 3 - brought to you by the makers of the well-known HTML tool HoTMetaL - includes a number of new features for dealing with the ubiquitous extensible markup language. As well as changes to the XML editor (to be more Word-like), there is revision marking for keeping track of changes, customisation of a drop-down style Element box, and improved support for Java (all properties and methods of XMetaL 3. ...more