Microsoft could take Windows from Korea on antitrust move

Microsoft has threatened to withdraw Windows from South Korea if the country's antitrust agency forces the company to remove its Instant Messenger and Media Player from the operating system. South Korea's Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) has been investigating Microsoft over allegations that the company has breached antitrust laws by offering the services as built-in components of Windows, according to Reuters. If the KFTC decide that Microsoft has carried out anti-competitive practices the agency could order the software giant to redesign Windows. ...more

palmOne scales new heights with $40 high on the Nasdaq

Shares in PDA maker palmOne reached $40 last week, little more than a year after the price plunged so low that Palm faced being delisted from the Nasdaq stock exchange. palmOne, which was formed late last year following the splitting of the original Palm into its hardware and software components, owes its recent success to the June 2003 acquisition of rival Palm OS licensee Handspring and its Treo line of smart phones. The Treo 600 is now selling so well - it is Orange's top-selling smart phone, according to a source - that the company is struggling to keep up with demand. ...more

Xbox chips work a charm for NVIDIA profits

NVIDIA has reported results for the latest quarter, with a net income of $24.2mn compared with $5.3mn for the preceding quarter. ...more

David Bowie, eBay and Flickr lead winners of annual Webby awards

David Bowie and eBay starred on Tuesday alongside photo-sharing website Flickr and a blog of cute animals as winners of the Webby Awards, the leading international honour for Web content. Winners of the 11th annual Webbys, dubbed 'the Oscars of the Internet,' were chosen from a record 8,000 entries from 60 countries by 400,000 public votes and a panel of 80 Web experts to recognise excellence in about 100 different categories. 'Our goal is to honour all the work on the Web,' David-Michel Davies, executive director of the Webbys which are presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Science, told Reuters. ...more

Fourteen new broadband dates

Fourteen further exchanges have got the green light for ADSL upgrades, the latest successes of BTs broadband registration scheme. The following exchanges will bring the total for May to 34, joining the 20 whose ready-for-service dates were announced in February. The 14 new exchanges and dates are: 14 May - March, Cambridgeshire and Frensham, Surrey; 21 May 2003 - Aberdeen Ashgrove, Grampian; Armthorpe, South Yorkshire; Epping, Essex; Knottingley, West Yorkshire; Lingfield, Surrey; Portishead, Avon; Prestatyn, Clywd; Redditch Old Town, Hereford & Worcester; and Runcorn East, Cheshire; 28 May - Aberdeen Bielside, Grampian; Bewdley, Hereford & Worcester; and Downhall, Essex. ...more