Microsoft fires broadside at Novell Netware

What Redmond giveth, Redmond taketh away. Barely a week after settling an anti-trust suit with Novell over unfair practices designed to drive Netware out of the Enterprise and a few days since Novell slapped in a similar suit making similar allegations over WordPerfect, Microsoft has fired a broadside at Novell by offering US Netware customers an attractive deal to migrate to Windows Server 2003. Microsoft is offering wavering Netware users a range of goodies including tools, prescriptive guidance, training and technical support to help them migrate to Windows Server 2003. ...more

Napster sees subscriber figures rise 50 per cent

Paid subscribers to Napster rose by 50 per cent in the last quarter of 2004, the online music service announced today. The Windows-only offering now has 270,000 subscribers entitled to stream as much music as they wish. However users must pay extra if they wish to download tracks in order to burn them to CD or copy to a compatible portable device. ...more

Labtec's audio lovelies

Labtec has launched a range of affordable speakers and headsets for Christmas. The sum of ?59.99 will buy you the 31w RMS (average, rather than peak, power output) Arena-530. ...more

UPDATED: Apple reveals extent of legal proceedings

Apple has submitted its latest filing to the Securities and Exchanges Commission, which reveals that during the three month period covered it was engaged in 17 different legal proceedings. The 10-Q filing for the quarter ending 27 December is primarily a 'state of play' document outlining the companies financial position - in a word healthy. But tucked away at the end are brief outlines of the ongoing disputes. ...more

Parallels sends 50 new features to beta testers

Parallels has announced that its private beta community has begun testing the first Release Candidate of the next version of its eponymous virtualisation software, which enables Macs to run Windows within OS X. Parallels Desktop 3.0 contains over 50 new features, including SmartSelect, a cross-platform file and application integration feature, support for DirectX and OpenGL 3D graphics and easy backup and restore via Snapshots. ...more