Olympus launches world's smallest D-SLR

Olympus today annouced a new edition to its E-System range and what it claims to be the world's smallest and lightest D-SLR camera. The new Olympus E-400 boasts a 10.0 million pixel CCD, 2. ...more

Intel invests in Ireland to build new Fab

Intel is to invest 1.6 billion Euros in its Irish operation. The company plans to build another manufacturing plant at its Leixlip, county Kildare site. ...more

SCO launches law suit against Linux user AutoZone

SCO has filed a lawsuit against US car parts retailer AutoZone. The Utah based company is seeking an injunction that will prevent it from using Linux software that, SCO claims, illegally infringes its Unix intellectual property. The company alleges that 'AutoZone violated SCO's UNIX copyrights by running versions of the Linux operating system that contain code, structure, sequence and/or organization from SCO's proprietary UNIX System V code in violation of SCO's copyrights. ...more

VeriSign vows to fight on over SiteFinder redirects

US Domain name registrar VeriSign says it will continue to make its case for its controversial SiteFinder redirected service. Yesterday, Russell Lewis, VeriSign's Executive Vice President, General Manager said that the company plans to relaunch the service as quickly as possible. VeriSign officials say that, as they see it, this is about having the freedom to innovate in the face of obstruction from a small number of Internet purists. ...more

New worms top January virus charts

The Avril and Yaha worms oust Klez and Bugbear to steal the prevalence crown for January. The Avril Lavigne email worm was first discovered early in the month, but quickly tunnelled up the charts to the top two spots, with variants A and B accounting for 29.2 per cent of reported incidents. ...more