Canon to buy Toshiba's stake in display joint venture

Canon has said that it will buy out Toshiba in their flat-panel display venture to resolve a patent dispute with Nano-Proprietary. in the United States. Canon will now own the unit that was set up in 2004 to develop a new type of thin panels that can be used in TVs to challenge consumer electronics giants such as Samsung and Matsushita. ...more

RIM staves off shutdown order

The three million Blackberry users in the United States can continue using their devices a judge said on Friday. It had been feared that US District Judge James R. Spencer would order Blackberry manufacturer Research In Motion to cease all operations in the US, following the failure to have its appeal heard by the US Supreme Court. ...more

Online poker loses its lustre

Online poker, the latest dot.com boom, is booming no more. PartyGaming, whose Party Poker website handles half of the world's online games, lost a third of its stock market value of $6bn yesterday after it revealed that growth had virtually come to a halt. ...more

Ofcom to investigate BT's new residential phone tariffs

Telcoms regulator Ofcom is to investigate whether BT's new residential phone tariffs are anti-competitive. Ofcom says it has received complaints from 13 so-called Carrier Pre-Selection Operators (CPSOs). These are the companies who offer alternative call rates if you type a number in before dialling your destination number. ...more

Adobe announces AfterEffects 6.0

Adobe has unveiled a new version of After Effects, its motion graphics and visual effects software for digital video. The release includes a new text engine described by Adobe as 'revolutionary'. User can now type, edit and format text directly in the Composition window; they can edit and format text from imported Photoshop files and can animate characters, ranges of characters, words or lines, independently within a single text layer. ...more