Firefox grows at IE's cost

The open-source Firefox browser recorded a market share of eight per cent in May 2005, according to the latest survey from NetApplications. This was an increase form the 7.38 per cent recorded for April. ...more

TSMC and Nvidia reaffirm ties amid reports that IBM has won Nvidia orders

Nvidia and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) reaffirmed their close cooperation following reports that IBM won a multiyear contract to build new computer-graphics chips for Nvidia. IBM said on Wednesday that it will make new graphics chip for Nvidia, winning business that would have otherwise gone to TSMC, Reuters reported. Nvidia contracts TSMC to produce its graphics and core logic chipsets used in personal computers, laptops, workstations and Microsoft's Xbox game console. ...more

Sun bids to shut out MS Java appeal

Sun claims Microsoft appeal is part of delaying tactics to ensure Java's demise. In the light of Microsoft's appeal to stay an injunction forcing it to include Sun's version of the Java runtime environment in copies of XP and Internet Explorer, it now falls to Sun to persuade the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals not to intervene. In a 25-page filing submitted to the court yesterday, Sun claims that in allowing the injunction, Microsoft would still have plenty of time to incorporate Sun's technology, as the next shipping date for Windows falls within the 120-day period allowed - meaning Microsoft wouldn't have to worry about it until the next shipping date. ...more

Broadband is go for 15 more exchanges

BT has announced dates for the upgrading of a further 15 exchanges with ADSL broadband capability. The fifteen, with dates, are: Antrim, Northern Ireland; Badsey, Hereford & Worcester; Devonport, Devon; Dunblane, Central Region; Kidmore End, Oxfordshire - 21 May; Attleborough, Norfolk; Dronfield, Derbyshire; Highclere, Hampshire; Ingleby Barwick, Cleveland; Kingston Blount, Oxfordshire; Odiham, Hampshire; Southam, Warwickshire; Wormley, Surrey - 28 May; Wentworth, Surrey - 4 June; and Brimscombe, Gloucestershire - 28 June. These 15 bring the total announced in the past three weeks to 49. ...more

Microsoft launches kit to protect digital rights and push Windows Media

Microsoft shores up copyright and market dominance. Protecting copyright material in digital form has long been an issue troubling the media empires, who have invested billions in defending their content and combatting piracy. Microsoft has today announced a new component of its Windows Media 9 Series technologies called the Windows Media Data Session Toolkit that will help protect content and promote the Windows Media format. ...more