In the wake of last week's ruling that Novell, and not SCO, controls the copyrights covering UNIX, Novell is reassuring Unix users that it has no plans to follow in SCO's footsteps. Given that the company is no longer in the business of selling UNIX, it has no reason to pursue any copyright claims.

Apple told resellers of the demise of AppleWorks last week, announcing that the software had reached "End of Life" status.

According to a division of Home Media Magazine, Blu-ray high-definition movie discs outsold films on the rival HD-DVD format by 2-to-1 in the United States in the first half of 2007. 1.6 million Blu-ray discs were sold from January 1 to July 1, 2007, while 795,000 HD DVD discs were sold in that period.

CFO Marv Burkett told a conference calls that some of the fabs it used were are at capacity now and the company would like more wafers. Nvidia has undoubtedly benefited from AMD US$5.4bn acquisition of ATI Technologies, which has left it as the sole major independent supplier for Intel platforms. In its second quarter, which is usually slack, net income leapt 99.1% to US$172.7m on revenue 36% higher at US$935.3m.

Microsoft continued its campaign for the use of spectrum known as 'white spaces' to be allowed by the Federal Communications Commission on an unlicensed basis.

Researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and MIT have developed a new material that eliminates the need for a multilayer battery by using carbon nanotubes.

MySQL AB has made it harder for developers to use the enterprise edition of its database software for free, sparking a debate about whether the company has strayed from its obligation to the open-source community.

After a long and tortured courtship, Blockbuster has finally snapped up movie download service Movielink for a relative pittance.

Highly reliable sources have confirmed that AMD plans to unveil K10 in a month. Some OEMs should have Barcelonas even before but the official launch for the generation is 10th of September.

...three Toshiba laptop battery cells using batteries made by Sony in December 2005 have caught on fire during the last 10 months, prompting the recall of the production run. The batteries are different to those involved in the infamous recall debacle of late last year, which became the biggest consumer recall in history. Of the 10,000 batteries produced for the Toshiba notebooks in question, it is estimated that around 5,100 units may be affected by the fault.

Microsoft's newest OS, Vista, has been relegated to waterboy status at the 2008 Olympic Games, while wireless networking won't even play a supporting role in Beijing.

Gamers are either unaware or apathetic to the non-gameplay features of next-gen consoles, a study shows.

Large Internet search companies are aggressively competing with each other to offer better privacy protection to users, but federal legislation is still needed to protect consumers, a leading advocacy group found in a report released today.