USB 'will continue its reign'

A technology market research company has published the results of its investigation into the future of USB and concluded that the new, faster version - USB 2.0 - 'is poised to successfully succeed the first generation USB standard'. USB 2. ...more

Lower cost Linux proves irresistable

The latest study commissioned by OpenForum Europe shows that directors are increasingly confident of deploying open-source software throughout public and commercial organisations. As ever, it's the financials that prove the most persuasive, with the lower licence costs and total cost of ownership (TCO) major factors. And with Microsoft's Licensing 6 program introduced last year most businesses who signed up have found their software costs increasing. ...more

Bagle worms continue mutating

The fast changing, email-harvesting Bagle worm is operating under a new alias. Versions of the virulent worm now include Bagle-AB, and Sophos warns of receiving many reports of it from the wild. The worm arrives under a variety of possible subject lines, including 'Re: Msg reply', 'Re: Hello', 'Re: Yahoo!', 'Re: Thank you!', 'Re: Thanks :)', 'RE: Text message' or 'Re: Document'. ...more

Ex-Samsung execs charged with price fixing

A federal grand jury in San Francisco has indicted two executives from Samsung and one executive from Hynix America as part of a world wide conspiracy to fix DRAM prices, the US Department of Justice has announced. In total, four companies and 16 individuals have been charged with fines totalling more that $731 million resulting from the Department's ongoing antitrust investigation into the DRAM industry. The $731 million in criminal fines is the second highest total obtained by the Department of Justice in a criminal antitrust investigation into a specific industry. ...more

IBM Java toolkit supports MPEG-4 development

One for multimedia Java developers. IBM has released version 1.1 of its toolkit for working with MPEG-4 video and audio. ...more