Widgets seize the desktop initiative

Desktop widget applications are moving into the mainstream, courtesy of third-party development and integration into both Mac OS and Windows Vista. They have taken their time to establish themselves, but the business community is finally taking notice of potential applications. Indeed, Widgets - small applications that sit on or overlay the desktop - are gaining so much popularity that corporations are increasingly using them as a marketing tool, as well as a value-added information delivery mechanism. ...more

Draw Quake by hand

These days, gamers seem to be more obsessed with high-spec graphics cards, frame rates and photo-realistic graphics than anything else. Well this little known mod project turns the gamesworld upside down and transforms Quake into a hand drawn nightmare. NPR Quake (that's Non-PhotoRealistic Quake) takes the 3D environments of the original Quake engine and creates a world that looks as if it has just come off the designer's drawing board. ...more

Tesco nets 1,500 orders per hour

It seems that a lot of people just cannot be bothered to go grocery shopping anymore and why should they when supermarket chains like Tesco has an online shop? British consumers have embraced Tesco.com with up to 1,500 orders being processed per hour, yielding a turnover of ?5m per week and the company intends to extend that figure in the future. The increased revenue from the website has been generated by a redesign of the site, which now offers faster customer response time. ...more

Microsoft turns up the heat on spammers

Microsoft is claiming success with the widespread adoption of the anti-spam Sender ID initiative. The company is also introducing new smart spam filters which 'learn' how to detect junk email. As the developer of the world's most-used email client in Outlook and the world's biggest web mail service in Hotmail, Microsoft has an interest in promoting methods of keeping the spammers out of the inboxes of its customers as effectively as possible. ...more

Judge denies Novell's attempt to dismiss SCO suit

The case revolves around SCO's claims that it owns the Unix operating system, which previous owner Novell publicly disputed, resulting in SCO slapping a 'Slander of Title' lawsuit upon the company. Novell argued that legal privileges allowed it to make such statements, in the interest of the Linux community that was being targeted by SCO, which is looking to charge royalty payments for use of what it considered its wrongfully included intellectual property. It seems that there are only two conditions by which SCO can successfully argue that Novell doesn't have such privileges. ...more