SCO subpoenas sally forth

Following IBM's subpoenas on the financial friends of SCO, SCO has served subpoenas to five companies and one individual: Linus Torvalds. The subpoenas are being served to Linus Torvalds, Novell, the Free Software Foundation, the Open Source Development Lab and Transmeta, the company for which Linus Torvalds was working until recently. There is also one other organisation on which we are still awaiting a name. ...more

Virus Bulletin Conference: Industry unveils unified naming for virus threats

A new initiative set up to dispel confusion over virus-naming, the Common Malware Enumeration (CME), was launched on Wednesday. The industry group, backed by a string of global security companies, aims to provide a common name for high profile threats in the hope that customers will be able to protect their computers from malware attacks more effectively. The need for a more uniform approach to virus-naming has been a long-standing issue for users. ...more

Corel releases WordPerfect Office X3

Canadian software company Corel has launched a new version of the WordPerfect Office productivity suite. The new version promises better interoperability with Microsoft Office as well as the ability to import and export documents to PDF format. The product also features an enhanced user interface, a new mail client and the ability to conduct searches from within applications via Yahoo! Search. ...more

Audio masters announce new chip

Creative Labs, manufacturers of the SoundBlaster range of sound cards, have announced a new audio DSP, the Audigy processor. The new 32bit chip is claimed to be four times as powerful as the current EMU10K1 processor. It's capable of simulating four audio environments simultaneously and morphing and panning between them. ...more

Showdown looms for chess computer challenge

In the computer chess challenge dubbed 'Brains in Bahrain', the series now stands at 3.5 - 3.5 after the computer Deep Fritz pulled level against the grand master Vladimir Kramnik. ...more