Intel gets the Web 2.0 bug with business web apps

Intel is getting in on the Web 2.0 act. It is launching SuiteTwo, which it describes as a Web 2. ...more

CNet to relaunch MP3.com in the new year.

According to a report today by Reuters, CNet Networks has announced plans to offer a music upload and download site for independent artists on its newly acquired MP3.com web site early in the new year. CNet which already owns news. ...more

Credit card companies not responsible for content on websites

Credit card companies are not liable for damages if they process transactions from a website in breach of copyright a Californian court has ruled. An adult website 'Perfect 10' had sued Mastercard and Visa because they provided credit card services for websites which, it claimed, had stolen and reproduced its copyrighted material. In dismissing the case, Judge James Ware, ruled that whilst the credit card companies assisted in the business they weren't helping the site to infringe copyright in any way. ...more

Microsoft gets double-click patent

Microsoft has been granted a patent for one of computer user's most basic tools, the double-click. Patent number 6,727,830 - Time based hardware button for application launch - covers various mouse click sequences that Microsoft claims to have invented. The patent is being challenged by the Public Patent Foundation and will not have gone unnoticed at Apple, whose first Macintosh pioneered the use of a mouse. ...more

Visual Studio.NET for the enterprise

Microsoft has fleshed out more details of its Visual Studio.NET product range. Visual Studio is Microsoft's popular - and increasingly, all-encompassing - development environment. ...more