SCO cuts losses but cash reserves dwindle

SCO has set out its Q3 results, claiming a profitable Unix business, but there's still no sign that the trickle of Linux licensing revenues are anywhere near the cost of squeezing them out. The Unix company stated a net loss of $7.4mn on revenues of $11. ...more

Powerful parental controls in prospect for Leopard

Apple is lining up powerful new parental controls in next year's release of OS X 10.5 Leopard, evidenced by screenshots from the latest developer build. The grabs show a new Parental Controls preference pane that provides four areas in which access to the Mac, websites, email and chat can be restricted by the system's administrator. ...more

Japanese giants to take on Cisco

Hitachi and NEC are joining forces to battle with Cisco in the high-end backbone routers/switches market. The two Japanese giants have announced that they will establish a joint venture company in October 2004, drawing on their work in technologies such as IPv6 and bandwidth control. Located in Tokyo, the new company is expected to have 350 employees - drawn from both companies. ...more

Fujitsu goes mission critical with Linux

Fujitsu has backed Linux for mission critical servers with its new Primequest server line. Based on Intel's 64-bit Itanium 2 processor, the servers can be installed with Red Hat Enterprise Linux ASv.4 or Novell/SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9. ...more

New attorney to lead case against Microsoft

The US Department of Justice has appointed Philip Beck to lead its ongoing litigation against Microsoft. Beck - who was involved in the legal challenges over the Florida Presidential recount (successfully, on George W. Bush's side) - replaces David Boies who previously lead the DOJ's case. ...more