Cisco accused of iPhone source code violation

A GPL licensing expert has accused Cisco of violating an open source license by failing to publish source code developed for its WIP300 iPhone. The VoIP handset runs a version of Linux developed by Cisco-subsidiary Linksys from code publicly available under the GPL open source licence. Under the terms of that licence, Linksys is obliged to release the altered code back to the open source community. ...more

ATI to demo HD video at Computex

ATI is heralding what it claims to be the first public demonstration of high-definition H.264 video playback with hardware acceleration on the PC platform. Using Radeon technology and a CyberLink video player application, the demo is due to take place at the Computex show in Taipei, Taiwan, which starts next week. ...more

Microsoft simplifies its virtualisation licences

Microsoft has announced a comprehensive overhaul of its virtual machine licensing as part of its push to get its customers moving towards a dynamic systems network model. Self-managing dynamic systems are becoming increasingly prevalent in the larger scale enterprises where resources are allocated dynamically through virtual machines. The deployment of dynamic systems not only saves on hardware costs as many virtual machines can run on a single physical box, it also cuts down the time spent by IT staff in maintaining the plethora of computers linked together in the network. ...more

Apple Inc and Apple Corp settle

The war of the Apples is over as Steve Jobs' Apple Inc and The Beatles' Apple Corp reach a new agreement. Apple Inc will now own all of the trademarks related to 'Apple' but will license some of them back to Apple Corps. 'We love the Beatles,' said Steve Jobs, Apple Inc's CEO, 'and it has been painful being at odds with them over these trademarks. ...more

Microsoft improves Unix-friendly tools

Microsoft has updated its Unix-Windows interoperability tools. Windows Services for Unix Version 3.5 (SFU 3. ...more