UK games chart: Pro Evolution Soccer 6 is number one

Konami's Pro Evolution Soccer 6 (PC, PS2, Xb360, DS, PSP) goes straight in at number one in this week's ELSPA UK games chart. Playing its way to the top of the charts, the football gamer's football game offers greater player control and more accurate simulation. Specifically in the latest version, player AI has been upgraded, with players running into space when not in possession of the ball, and defenders learning to back off slightly to prevent being turned by opponents. ...more

AMD calls on Skype over Intel deal

AMD is spreading the scope of its anti-trust battle with Intel, and is involving the voice over IP specialist Skype. As part of the antitrust complaint AMD has served Skype with a subpoena requesting certain documents from the company. Specifically, documents related to the recent introduction of its 10-way voice conference calling feature. ...more

Mobile phones ring up the downloads

Mobile phone downloads have hit their stride, with declining prices fuelling a massive growth. Research firm Mintel predicts that this year, mobile phone downloads will number 760m in the UK alone, some 25 times the figure for 2002. This will create a market worth some three-quarters of a billion pounds. ...more

An open lab for Open Source

A high-powered computing centre has been opened in Portland, Oregon. What's of interest is that it's just for the use of Open Source developers. The independent and not for profit Open Source Development Lab (ODSL) has already been backed with $24m in funding, and the idea is to encourage the building of business-oriented capabilities for Linux-based software. ...more

Microsoft delays Yukon and Whidbey launches

Microsoft has surprised its beta-testers and the development community by announcing that the next versions of SQL Server, code-named Yukon, and Visual Studio, code-named Whidbey are delayed until next year. Both products were originally expected this year. Although few details for the delay have been released, Microsoft says the delay until the first half of 2005 was to ensure that they 'meet the high-quality requirements of our customers'. ...more