Microsoft appeals must-carry Java ruling

Agreeing to disagree. As expected, no sooner had Microsoft agreed the terms of an injunction to add Sun's Java environment to Windows, but it has now filed an appeal. The emergency motion seeks to stay the order entered into court by Judge J Frederick Motz that Microsoft must carry Sun's Java within 120 days, which is described as 'extreme and unprecedented'. ...more

IDF Fall 2003: Seagate launches world first 100GB platter

Seagate has announced the world's first 100GB platter which means its latest two-platter Barracuda drive will offer 200GB of storage, in both parallel and serial ATA flavours. The company also announced its Fibre Channel solution - a collaboration with QLogic and Condre for small and mid-sized enterprises that offers data throughput of 2Gb/sec across storage systems with capacities up to 2.3 Terabytes. ...more

Asus announces ATI cards for the UK

Asus has announced its new partner, ATI, along with the duo's first fruits: the latest ATI-based cards complete with Half-Life 2 bundle. The Asus Radeon 9800XT leads the range, and at an estimated street price of ?450, is aimed at the very very keen gamer. However, it does boast 256MB, four video in/out ports and runs both cooler and quieter than the ATI reference boards, according to the company. ...more

Windows XP Tablet PC Edition - a second opinion

Before you start getting too excited about Microsoft's much-anticipated new operating system, take a step back. Yes, as a technical achievement, it's fantastic - the handwriting recognition works a treat, the fact that the hardware resumes from standby within five seconds brings it into PDA territory, and there will undoubtedly be occasions when using a notebook in tablet rather than traditional form will be useful. But listening to Microsoft talk, you'd think that within a couple of years all notebooks would be running this enhanced version of Windows XP Professional. ...more

Movie studios plan download store before years'-end

The US film industry has said that it is hopeful that the first movie downloads store will be ready for business before the end of the year. 'It's something we have to do, but it has to be done well,' said Bob Wright, chief executive of NBC Universal. 'We're pretty close. ...more