New incarnations of Firefox and Thunderbird on trial

Release candidate versions of Firefox 1.0.2 and Thunderbird 1. ...more

Microsoft and Samsung strike patent licensing deal

Microsoft and Samsung have announced that they have entered into a broad patent cross-licensing agreement. Under the terms of the agreement, Samsung will get access to Microsoft patents for technologies that are deployed in a range of current and future product lines - including computer products, set-top boxes, digital media players, camcorders, televisions, printers and home appliances. In addition, Samsung and its distributors and customers may use Microsoft's patents in Samsung's products with proprietary software, and Samsung will also obtain legal coverage from Microsoft for its customers' use of certain Linux-based products. ...more

Borland bundles for e-business

Borland has put together a collection of software design and development tools - entitled Borland Enterprise Studio Java Edition, or "The Studio" - that targets Java-based e-commerce applications. Bundling together its JBuilder Enterprise Edition with programs from Rational Software and Macromedia, the collection is meant to provide a complete design, development and management system. Contents of "The Studio" include the following:JBuilder Enterprise Edition (for Java development) Borland AppServer (for managing distributed applications) Rational Rose Modeler 2001 (for visual modelling at the design stage) Rational Rose with JBuilder integration (for round-trip engineering between Rational Rose models and the Java applications) Rational Unified Process (to help with a best-practice approach to development) Macromedia Dreamweaver UltraDev 4 (for Web development)There's more info on the Borland site here. ...more

Intel spreads the Centrino message

Intel has kicked off a worldwide advertising campaign for the upcoming launch of Centrino. This is a ground-up redesign of its mobile processor technology. Intel will not reveal the exact size of the promotional campaign. ...more

Fixed addresses a closer possibility

UK ISP Andrews & Arnold has begun offering its broadband ADSL customers an IPv6 service, which could pave the way for an end to IP rationing. Under the current 32-bit IPv4 system, the shortage of IP numbers means that users are allocated an IP address each time they connect to the Internet. IPv6 is a 128-bit system and therefore provides exponentialy more addresses. ...more