Footballers evict cybersquatters

The latest round of rulings over cybersquatting involves two footballers and Wembley stadium. The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) has awarded Dutch internationals Jaap Stam and Pierre van Hooijdonk the right to use their names as domain names. The company that runs Wembley - "Wembley National Stadium" - also won control of the "wembleystadium" Web address. ...more

Vista RTM code delayed - report

Microsoft may be forced to delay the launch of the Vista operating system following a last minute hitch in the testing. According to reports, a major bug emerged in one of the latest builds of the operating system that caused a complete crash of the system and necessitated a reinstallation. According to the Taiwan-based news service Digitimes, local PC manufacturers have been told that the RTM (Release to Manufacturing) code they were expecting in the fourth week of October has been put back to the second week of November. ...more

Novell backs up Unix claims against SCO

The Groklaw website reports that Novell has filed documents in its defence against SCO's claim of Slander of Title that clearly state Novell was to retain key Unix intellectual property that SCO claims it does not own. The case centres on SCO's belief that Novell is damaging SCO's revenue claims for the use of Unix intellectual property - that Novell is claiming that it never passed them on to SCO when it sold Unix back in 1995. However, the latest filing details minutes of a meeting of the board of Directors at Novell the very day before the Asset Purchase Agreement (APA) to transfer Unix to SCO was signed. ...more

Kazaa adds free phone calls to p2p software

Kazaa, the world's best known peer to peer file sharing software now enables 'free' internet calls. Using technology from the Luxembourg based Skype Technologies version 3.0 of Kazaa extends the p2p principle to allow users to make voice calls to anywhere in the world. ...more

HP sets out roadmap for Blu-ray enabled products

Hewlett Packard has revealed that it is to include Blu-ray Disc technology across a swathe of its products from the end of next year. Amongst the ranges earmarked to include the new drives are consumer desktop and notebook PCs, personal workstations and digital entertainment centres. Blu-ray lets you record, rewrite and playback up to 50GB of data on a single dual-layer disc (as opposed to 4. ...more