Online food exchange goes off

Yet another casualty of the dot.com slow-down has come to light. The UK food exchange Efdex announced on Monday the liquidation of its business. ...more

HP merger is go go go

Vote certified - new HP with Compaq in its belly to launch 7 May. The independent Inspectors of Election have confirmed an HP management victory as official regarding the shareholders' vote to approve the Compaq acquisition. With 838,401,376 shares for, and 793,094,105 against, and nearly 14 million shares not cast, the victory is a narrow one - about 3 per cent. ...more

Internet World 2003: Zezame 2.0 opens for Web business

Zezame has released version 2.0 of its group collaboration software. Zezame 2. ...more

SCO and Novell dispute takes new twist

SCO's latest filing in its legal battle against Novell appears to lend credence to Novell's claim that the transfer of Unix to SCO was not comprehensive. SCO is in the midst of a suit against Novell, claiming the company's public claims of ownership of Unix assets has hurt its business. Yet in the latest documents to be filed, SCO admits that because it was unable to raise enough money to buy Unix outright, a compromise was agreed. ...more

BT to widen 8Mbit trials from next month

BT is extending the reach of its 8Mbit broadband service next month. If successful, the trials will lead to a full roll out of an 8Mbit service across the BT network beginning in the spring of 2006. The company says that a broad roll out of an 8Mbit downstream speed will encourage a new wave of applications for its broadband service such as interactive gaming and video and music streaming as well as the more traditional email and surfing. ...more