New anti-trust judge makes first order

The new judge in the Microsoft anti-trust case has made her first ruling, but it is only to set the timetable for a status meeting on the case. Newly-appointed District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, has ordered the two sides to report on the remaining issues by 14 September and set a meeting on the status of the case for the following week. Earlier today, the US Department of Justice again filed a motion to request that the court expedite the schedule of the case. ...more

Borland's Enterprise Studio for Java comes Together

Following on from JBuilder X - unveiled at the end of autumn - comes Borland's Enterprise Studio 7 for Java. This brings all Borland's application lifecycle management tools together under one umbrella, including design, deployment and requirement analysis tools. The idea is to encourage good practice for developers. ...more

Miniature computers are almost here

It won't be long before mobile computers will feature screens measuring only one tenth of an inch. New York-based firm eMagin is confident that our computing experience will be revolutionised, over the next twelve months, by high-resolution, low-cost miniature displays. The technology developed by the company is small enough to fit into special goggles, in a similar way to already available, but expensive, equipment. ...more

SCO gets the nod as high-growth tip

Deloitte Technology has featured SCO at number 75 in its list of the fastest growing tech companies in North America. The list rates SCO for having staggering growth over the past five years. 'Attracting enough customers to maintain four digit growth over five years makes a strong statement about the quality of a company's product and its leadership,' said Mark Evans, national managing partner of Deloitte's Technology, Media and Telecommunications Group. ...more

AMD outlines its quad-core computing

AMD has been revealing details of its technology roadmap, specifically what lies ahead with quad-core computing. Scheduled to appear in the first half of 2007 - first for servers, but then rolled out across AMD desktop and laptop offerings - this will be the next step for AMD multi-core processing. AMD's Technical Director, Sales & Marketing EMEA, Giuseppe Amato, outlined details of the 65nm process-based quad-cores that we can expect. ...more