Linux vendors keep quiet over SCO warnings

SCO's potential targets are keeping it zipped, even though SCO has been busy telling their customers that what they're buying infringes its copyright. SCO targetting most of the top 1500 global companies with letters warning that the Linux software they are using contains 'an unauthorized derivative of UNIX', and even withdrawing its own version of Linux should have been the final straw that caused outcry amongst the vendors. In a teleconference given around the time the news broke of SCO's suit against IBM, Chris Sontag, senior vice president and general manager of SCOsource, said 'This is not about the Linux community and we're not going after them. ...more

Google goes bard crazy

Summer, according to Google, means Shakespeare and to celebrate this it has devoted a new section on its website to the bard. Google Shakespeare lets book lovers and theatre fans explore Shakspere's entire oeuvre. You can search for famous lines in Macbeth without toil and trouble, browse through all the plays you know, or follow your curiosity to discover new works on the site. ...more

IE hole allows site spoofing

Danish security experts have identified a flaw in the Internet Explorer browser that allows a malicious website to display a trustworthy URL in the address field. Security firm Secunia rates the hole as moderately critical and has been tested and found in version 6 of the browser, but has not been tested for earlier versions. The hole can be exploited by inserting syntax characters after the URL you wish to be displayed, but before the actual domain name. ...more

Intel waving not drowning, in new digital wave

The "next wave of computing" is upon us, according to one of Intel's main men, and Intel is positioning itself to ride the huge "digital wave" of increasingly smart media. Speaking at his first European press briefing for a couple of years, the Intel Executive Vice President and the General Manager of Intel's Architecture Group was spelling out the chip giant's view of how it is and how it should be. Digital wave Stressing commitment to developing the PC platform - "we are not in a post-PC world" - Otellini identified three major stages to the growth of PCs over the last twenty years. ...more

Microsoft hints at Zune Euro date

Microsoft, declaring itself happy with early sales of the Zune in the US, could launch the media player in Europe before the end of 2007, according to its marketing director. Jason Reindorp told Reuters that Microsoft was realistic about the challenge it faced in trying to crack into the digital music player market, which is dominated by Apple's iPod. 'You couldn't get a more entrenched competitor,' he said at the annual music industry Midem Net conference in Cannes. ...more