Blue Gene retains supercomputer crown

The Blue Gene/L System retains the No. 1 position as the world's fastest computer for the third year running. According to the latest Top500 supercomputer listings IBM also retains its lead as the principle builder of ultra fast machines. ...more

Yahoo! beefs up its Research Labs to match Google and MSN

It is a truth universally accepted that if you are in the search engine business, you need a big research budget. Thus, Yahoo! is expanding the scope of its Yahoo! Research Labs into new areas to reinforce its business strategy: which is to keep up with the Google and Microsoft Research Labs. Yahoo!'s stated aim is to attract the world's most talented scientists and develop Yahoo! Research Labs into a world-class centre for scientific innovation. ...more

Online scams net criminals ?2.75 billion

Poor card vetting at ATMs helped criminals make off with nearly $3bn in cash plundered from the accounts of users duped into handing over sensitive information in online scams. Gartner estimates some three million US consumers had $2.75bn stolen out of their bank accounts in the 12 months ending May 2005. ...more

Despite Microsoft, Linspire holds on to Lindows parent name

Linux distributor Linspire (nee Lindows) has won its latest battle against Microsoft in the Dutch courts. A Judge has told the company that it can make limited use of the name Lindows on its web site according to the IDG News Service. After losing an earlier round in a Dutch court, Lindows had changed its trading name to Linspire after Microsoft successfully claimed that Lindows infringed the Windows trademark. ...more

Berners-Lee starts his own blog

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, has begun to write his own blog. The news has caused a ripple around the blogging community with hundreds of comments posted on the first message. While Berners-Lee has doubtless had many opportunities to address the web audience and indeed has occasionally done so as the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium, this is the first time that he has taken to writing publicly from a personal viewpoint. ...more