Allen's SEC filing suggests massive Microsoft share sale

According to a filing made with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen intends to sell 15 million shares worth ?935.4m of common stock. It isn't clear from the SEC document, which was filed on 23 October, whether the shares, which were acquired in June 1981 as part of founders' stock, have already been sold. ...more

IT Forum 2004: Roundup

A number of companies have used the IT Forum to unveil back office and server-related products: Quest Software, Compuware, Zantaz, Office Add-On and Vintela. Reaching out to Unix Quest Software has announced availability of its InTrust Connector for Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005, which extends the monitoring reach of MOM out to UNIX servers. The Quest connector provides two-way synching of event notifications between Quest's InTrust event data manager and MOM. ...more

Europeans paying twice over for music downloads

UK music buyers are among a minority of Europeans who are not being charged twice for digital music. The Business Software Alliance has found that most Europeans are paying 'private copying' levies on digital equipment. The monies collected are going to record companies and other copyright holders as compensation for supposed lost income as a result of copying. ...more

AMD maintains profitable progress

AMD stays in the black. According to its latest financial results, AMD has maintained its profitable progress - it records a net income of $45 million on revenues of $1.236 billion (for the three months to 28 March 2004). ...more

The phoenix-like Boo rises again

Boo.com rises today from the ashes of its much-publicised demise, thanks to US online clothes firm Fashionmall, which snapped up the rights to the Boo name. It hopes to capitalise on the familiarity of the name with 18 to 30-year-olds, claiming that even when the site had gone under, it was still receiving 35,000 hits a week. ...more