Hush serves up the AVX Music Server

Hush has used its Silent PC platform to create a home entertainment centre. The quietly operating HUSH AVX Music Server is designed to change the way you listen to music around the house. Breaking away from a TV interface, the system is (wirelessly) driven by a PDA interface. ...more

Judge kills off SCO claims

SCO has had the lion's share of the examples it put forward as evidence of the 'misappropriation' by IBM ripped from its case. Judge Brooke Wells issued an order granting an IBM motion to dismiss SCO's claims due to lack of specificity: from a list of nearly 200 claims contested by IBM, just 10 remain - essentially removing two-thirds of SCO's contention. Aside from lack of specificity as to what exactly the code in question is, the straw that broke the Judge's patience is that SCO required far greater levels of specificity from IBM when requesting materials for evidence throughout the discovery period: a level of exactitude to which it was unable, or unwilling, to rise itself. ...more

Digital jukebox hopes to stave off iTunes

Online music provider OD2 has launched a new Windows-only digital jukebox service to counter the threat of Napster and iTunes. SonicSelector is a plug-in for Windows Media Player that gives access to a variety of online music stores from MSN, Tiscali, Packard Bell and MTV all of which draw on OD2's catalogue of 350,00 tracks. Unlike its rivals, however, SonicSelector not only lets you download tracks and albums but also stream songs to your PC at 1p a time. ...more

Microsoft launches Korean anti-trust appeal

Microsoft has appealed against the South Korean authories ruling that it broke anti-trust regulations, according to The Seattle Times. The Redmond response to the charges has been filed in the Seoul High Court, reports the newspaper. The issue revolves around the bundling of the Windows Media Player and instant messaging software as part of the Windows operating system, and the effect this had on competition from third-party software providers. ...more

Nvidia unveils its fastest ever mobile GPU

Chip builder Nvidia has introduced what it claims is the world's fastest GPU for notebooks, the GeForce Go 6800 Ultra mobile GPU. Although not generally known for use as high performance games machines, notebooks using the Go 6800 Ultra mobile GPU support Nvidia's range of visual technologies aimed at the gamer including Shader Model 3.0 and PureVideo Technology. ...more