New anti-trust judge makes first order

The new judge in the Microsoft anti-trust case has made her first ruling, but it is only to set the timetable for a status meeting on the case. Newly-appointed District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, has ordered the two sides to report on the remaining issues by 14 September and set a meeting on the status of the case for the following week. Earlier today, the US Department of Justice again filed a motion to request that the court expedite the schedule of the case. ...more

Microsoft backs DVB-H

Software giant Microsoft is joining the newly formed Mobile DTV Alliance. The organisation is an umbrella grouping of a number of industry heavyweights to promote the development of broadcast digital TV on mobile devices via the Digital Video Broadcasting-Handheld (DVB-H) format in North America. Other members of the group include Intel, Motorola, Nokia, Modeo and Texas Instruments. ...more

Digital art faces digital dark age

Although a growing number of artists use computers to create digital works of art, the ever changing nature of technology hardware means their digital visions could face obsolescence in just a few years. 'I often joke with my students that digital media will last forever - or for five years, whichever comes first,' said Richard Rinehart, digital media director at the Berkeley university's Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive. Digital art has broken into the mainstream with venerable institutions such as New York's Guggenheim Museum buying such works for permanent collections. ...more

Google denies move into VoIP business

Google has dismissed as 'pure speculation' a report in The Times today that it is going into the free phone call business. The speculation has been fuelled by a job ad on the Google web site seeking a 'strategic negotiator' to buy up 'dark' i.e. ...more

'Every mobile phone user will own a laptop' claims Intel

An Intel spokesman has claimed that one day, 'virtually every mobile phone user will own a laptop', citing the 'insatiable' demand for the Internet as the reason. The striking claim was made by Sean Maloney, the chief sales and marketing officer for Intel, during a keynote speech at HP's Mobility Summit in Shanghai. The keynote otherwise covered the official announcement of the newest version of Centrino and Centrino Pro, formerly codenamed Santa Rosa. ...more