And also today (12-Jan-2001), for the record...

Here, in brief, are some of the day's other stories. IBM's AIX Toolkit for Linux Applications is available for download. It enables developers to build Linux apps on AIX, IBM's UNIX. ...more

Another Mozilla developer jumps ship to Google

A second member of the Mozilla development team has announced he is taking a job at Google. Darin Fisher, who manages the cookie and permissions sections of the browser development, has written in his blog that he is to join the search engine. He follows fellow open source browser developer Ben Goodger who announced his departure for Googleearlier this week. ...more

InDesign plug-ins mark the end for PageMaker

Adobe is to discontinue development of its PageMaker page layout software by offering existing users an upgrade path via new plug-ins for InDesign. The decision will mean the end for the software which was originally developed by the now-defunct Aldus and was central to the desktop publishing revolution of the 1980s. Adobe InDesign CS PageMaker Edition comprises the full version of InDesign CS plus the PageMaker Plug-in Pack, which adds a number of PageMaker tools including: story editor, control palette, PageMaker toolbar, position tool, build booklet, data merge and bullets and numbering. ...more

ATi's consumer products drive revenues to $463mn

Black is the happy colour for ATi with its latest quarterly financial results. On the back of a 47.8 per cent increase in revenues from the same period a year ago, ATi has stayed in profit to the tune of $47. ...more

Microsoft exec warned Bill Gates: 'I would buy a Mac today'

A senior Microsoft executive told Bill Gates in 2004 that he would buy a Mac if only he was not employed by the Windows maker. In an email dated 7 January 2004, Jim Allchin, who is co-president of Microsoft's Platform Products and Services Group, told Gates, the company's co-founder, and chief executive Steve Ballmer, that Microsoft had lost its way. The email was submitted as evidence by attorney Richard Hagstrom in an Iowa court, on the second day of Comes v Microsoft, an class action lawsuit against the software maker that alleges unfair business practices harmed consumers. ...more