Green party pressures the EU to revise computer patent directive

Pressure to restart the process of drafting a patent directive for computer implemented inventions is growing as the Green Party petitions the European Parliament to send it back to the drawing board. The move followed news on Monday that a group of 61 MEPs had also put forward a motion to have the draft sent back to the European Parliament for a first reading. If granted, it would allow those concerned a fresh chance at defining the scope of what the final directive should fulfil, and ensure that exactly what is and what is not patentable is properly clarified. ...more

Apple embraces Intel and spurns PowerPC platform

Apple is to abandon the PowerPC platform and move all its Macs to Intel processors by 2007. The first Intel-based machines will be available a year from now. Apple embraces Intel and spurns PowerPC platform To move all its Macs to Intel processors by 2007, with the first Intel-based machines to be available a year from now Apple is to abandon the PowerPC platform and move all its Macs to Intel processors by 2007. ...more

Springtime for Halo 3 public testing

Microsoft will open up testing of the next Halo release to the general public. An Xbox Live multiplayer public beta of Halo 3 is scheduled to be available in spring 2007, according to Redmond. Running exclusively on the Xbox 360 - via the Xbox Live multiplayer feature - gamers will be able to play in a pre-release version of Halo 3. ...more

Bulldog announces latest broadband offer

Bulldog has cut the price of its PrimeTime 1000, 1Mbit/sec ADSL broadband package to just ?23.49 per month. PrimeTime 1000 in fact provides two different connection speeds, depending when it is being used. ...more

Sony Ericsson profits from mobile growth

Mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson has reported a steep year-on-year incline in revenues for the third quarter, as the public appetite for sophisticated handsets heightens. The joint venture made income before tax of 136mn Euros and a net income of 90mn Euros - a staggering growth of 249 and 49 per cent respectively, but perhaps more reflective of the nascent state of the feature-phone market a year ago. Sales for the quarter were up nearly a third year on year (29 per cent) to 1. ...more