SCO sets sail with flagship OpenServer 6

Unix company SCO has announced OpenServer 6, its flagship product, and one it hopes will help rejuvenate an ailing Unix market. It describes the product as the result of many years and millions of dollars worth of development and has certainly convinced the likes of HP, who will be selling a range of ProLiant servers running the Unix platform. 'As the worldwide market share leader of SCO Unix installations, HP is focused on delivering the latest technologies to HP ProLiant customers,' said Paul Miller, vice president of marketing, Industry Standard Servers, HP. ...more

Microsoft bows to EU and vows to ship Windows without Media Player

Microsoft is set to comply with the decision of the European Commission forcing it to offer a version of Windows without Windows Media Player. The move follows the failure of Microsoft's appeal to delay implementation at the end of last year. The company had sought to delay the remedies imposed by the Commission. ...more

Crucial crushes Flash storage

Crucial has updated its Gizmo! USB Flash drive range. Using the Hi-Speed version of the USB 2.0 interface (480Mbit/sec), the new Hi-Speed Gizmo! drives have been shrunk down to 66. ...more

Live Connection Center Wi-Fi Beta slips out

Microsoft has invited beta testers of Office 2007 to try out its new Live Connection Center Wi-Fi Beta. The Live Connection Center is part of a rumoured WiFi suite that includes client, wireless network locator and security elements such as parental controls. The product consists of two components. ...more

First successful BitTorrent prosecution

A 23-year-old man from Virginia is the first person to be successfully convicted of helping to run a BitTorrent P2P node. Grant Stanley has been sentenced to five months in jail and five months home detention for his part in managing the BitTorrent node known as Elite Torrents. Stanley was also fined $3,000 and given three years probation. ...more