SCO keeps the litigious hat with Novell

In a teleconference on Friday, SCO refuted Novell's claimed ownership of Unix copyrights and patents, with CEO Darl McBride saying: 'We'll be settling these issues in court'. Novell's assertion that the 1995 sale of Unix to SCO did not include the transfer of copyrights and patents is wrong, claimed McBride - a former executive at Novell. He described Novell's actions as 'a desperate measure to curry favour with the Linux fraternity', and that its statement was deliberately timed to tarnish SCO's quarterly results announcements. ...more

It's all Greek to them

Chuck out your foreign language phrase books, because the Pocket Voice Translator UT-103 has arrived. You'll never need to learn a foreign language again. Simply say what you want to say into the palm-sized device and then play it back in the language you want. ...more

AMD adds ECC unbuffered memory support for Opterons

Due to 'overwhelming customer demand', AMD says it has widened the types of memory supported by the AMD Opteron 100 Series processors. The range now offers error-correcting code (ECC) unbuffered memory support. AMD foresees this type of memory being used in critical markets for one-way servers and workstations. ...more

MyLife virus strikes at ten to midnight

Sophos has detected several incidents of a new MyLife virus that attempts to delete sys files at 10 minutes to the hour. W32/MyLife-M is an email worm that spreads by sending itself through Outlook to addresses found in the Outlook address book. It arrives as an email with characteristics including subject line 'Old Shakira' and message 'Hi, i saw this good ASS,, i sleep 3 hours ;-) check Shakira ass soory Shakira movi :)', as well as a bogus McAfee email scan message to suggest that the attached file - Shakira_1997_part_1_. ...more

Google to help develop OpenOffice

Google has confirmed that it is working on improving the OpenOffice productivity suite. Although the search engine has previously denied that it plans to develop the software, the news will cause ripples of concern around Redmond that is already beginning to view OpenOffice as a challenger in key government and academic organisations. Speaking to US industry news service News. ...more