Judge Jackson withdraws from latest Microsoft lawsuit

Microsoft will not be facing Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson across another courtroom. He has decided to withdraw from presiding over a racial discrimination lawsuit brought against Microsoft. In what was a surprising twist of fate, Judge Jackson - fresh from hearing the long Microsoft anti-trust case - was randomly selected to hear the completely unrelated case. ...more

Yahoo! Goes for consumer devices

Fittingly, Yahoo! chose the Consumer Electronics Show to introduce the new Yahoo! Go suite of products. Yahoo! Go aims to bring the company's wide range of products and services beyond the PC to a wide range of consumer electronics devices including TV and mobile phones. Much of Yahoo! Go will be developed alongside Intel, which is anxious to establish its own Viiv digital home technology. ...more

OS X to be released in March

Apple will release its new operating system, OS X (that's the number ten), on 24 March. Apple CEO Steve Jobs confirmed the date at the Macworld expo in San Francisco. The major re-introduction, and the one that will probably please most Mac users, is the Apple Menu (though it appears in a very different form). ...more

The PlayStation 2 gets violent

The links between computers games and violence were finally established in the US on Thursday when scuffles broke out at some stores across the country. Shortages of the next generation console meant that PS2 fans in areas as varied as North Dakota and Woodstock were left hot around the collar. As tempers flared, people were threatened and violent behaviour displayed. ...more

British Library opens online newsagent

Read all about it. The nineteenth century, that is - the British Library is to make digital copies of old newspapers accessible online. The ?2m project will cover 100 years of news from titles which are out of copyright. ...more