RealOne player binds Helix

Following RealNetwork's recent announcement of its Helix technology, which it made open-source, it has released the gold release of version 2 of its consumer RealOne Player, the first to incorporate Helix. The gold release is 'code complete' and, thanks to the Helix platform, can play more than 50 digital media formats, including Windows Media and QuickTime MPEG4. Other enhancements include better stability, faster CD ripping and burning and integrated support for a number of Sonic MP3 players. ...more

A cruel Gruel virus is stalking Windows

A virus writer with an anti-Windows agenda is trying to cause havoc with the Gruel virus. Described by Sophos as a mass-mailing worm, Gruel also causes damage to your Windows installation. It deletes files from the system folder, changes the default association for . ...more

World Wide Web doubles in three years

The Internet continues to blossom as millions of new sites come on line each month. Netcraft says that within the last month some 3.1 million sites have been added to the Internet and that the Web has doubled in size over the last three years: growing from 40 million in April 2003 to more than 80 million today. ...more

Lawsuits loaded for memory chip price fixing

Thirty-four US states are primed to file lawsuits against seven companies alleging a conspiracy to fix the price of memory chips, in violation of antitrust laws. Attorney General Bill Lockyer will file the complaint in California later today, claiming that between 1998 and 2002 Infineon, Hynix Semiconductor, Micron Technology, Mosel Vitelic, Nanya Technology, Elpida Memory and NEC Electronics and their subsidiaries fixed DRAM chip prices, artificially restrained supply, allocated the production of DRAM chips and markets for the chips among themselves and rigged bids for DRAM chip contracts. The lawsuit will cite reports that have calculated that the US market was overcharged hundreds of millions of dollars. ...more

Ask Jeeves sells Enterprise Division

Search provider Ask Jeeves has sold its Enterprise Software Division, Jeeves Solutions, to the US based customer service solution provider Kanisa for a total of $4.25 million. $3. ...more