OS X 10.2 primed for 24 August

Apple CEO Steve Jobs has announced that Jaguar, the 'wildly innovative' next version of OS X will be released n 24 August. OS X 10.2 takes the operating system onto a new level by incorporating several new technologies and enhancing many of the core OS X applications, such as Mail, Address Book and Sherlock. ...more

Apple seeks wireless engineers for iPod division

Apple's iPod division has placed advertisements for two hardware engineers with experience in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. The wireless-enabling of Apple's portable music player has long been the subject of speculation. However simply equipping the iPod with 802. ...more

Les Blogs 2.0: blogs enter the video age

Les Blogs 2.0 is probably the most 'zeitgeisty' conference of the year, combining the Web 2.0 buzz with the blogging phenomenum sweeping all before it. ...more

Microsoft builds open-source bridges to ODF

Microsoft is looking to provide a bridge between Microsoft Office file formats and those of the open source OpenDocument Format (ODF). It has announced the creation of the Open XML Translator project, which will provide a set of conversion tools, both for the forthcoming Office 2007 and previous versions of Office. Microsoft will be developing the tools in collaboration with the France-based IT provider Clever Age and software vendors such as Aztecsoft in India and Dialogika in Germany. ...more

RIAA claims victory over file sharers

The Recording Industry of America Association is claiming victory in the war against the file sharers and says the problem has now been 'contained'. 'The problem has not been eliminated,' the RIAA CEO Mitch Bainwol told USA Today 'But we believe digital downloads have emerged into a growing, thriving business, and file-trading is flat.' Over the past few years, the RIAA has sued thousands of music fans in the United States for file sharing, which has left a bad taste even with the ex-CEO of the organisation. ...more