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Some members of the open-source community are claiming that the SCO Group may have violated the terms of the GNU GPL (General Public License) by incorporating source code from the Linux kernel into the Linux Kernel Personality feature found in SCO Unix without giving the changes back to the community or displaying copyright notices attributing the code to Linux. A source close to SCO, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told eWEEK that parts of the Linux kernel code were copied into the Unix System V source tree by former or current SCO employees.

Story Url: http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=34460532 Send story to the . IBM, Infineon Develop Most Advanced MRAM Technology to Date 10 Jun 2003, 12:00am ET - - - - - KYOTO, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 9, 2003--IBM and Infineon Technologies AG (FSE/NYSE:IFX) today announced they have developed the most advanced Magnetic Random Access Memory (MRAM) technology to date by integrating magnetic memory components into a high-performance logic base. Today's announcement could accelerate the commercialization of MRAM, a breakthrough memory technology with the potential to begin replacing some of today's memory technologies as early as 2005. MRAM could lead to 'instant on' computers, allowing users...

Front Door | Perspectives | Search | One Week View http://www.news.com Netizens, prepare to pay moreBy Declan McCullaghJune 9, 2003, 4:00 AM PThttp://news.com.com/2010-1071-1014229.html If you own a cable modem, expect a substantial increase in your monthly rates if a proposal currently before the Federal Communications Commission goes forward.The FCC is considering levying an additional tax of up to 9.1 percent on the revenue of cable modem providers. In theory, a cable provider is not required to pass the tax increase along to customers, but in practice, companies tend to do just that. EarthLink said last week that it would raise prices because of digital subscriber...

<p>The .zip compression format has known remarkable stability and compatibility for many years, but that may soon change. PKWare and WinZip, makers of competing compression and encryption products, are fighting over the .zip standard--which means that .zip archive files created by one program may not be accessible by the other.</p>

The interface between human and computer is less than ideal, especially in an age when computers are becoming more portable. Researchers from the University of Glasgow and the Canadian National Research Council have devised a pair of interaction techniques that allow people to manipulate mobile computers without looking at or talking to them.The first technique is a three-dimensional audio menu that presents users with sounds or speech that seems to come from different directions. Users select items by nodding in the direction of the audio choice.The second technique involves tracing shapes like X, N, and / onto a screen. Key...

PORTLAND, Ore. — A new shape for semiconductor nanocrystals—tetrapods, rather than simple spheres, rods and disks—could double the efficiency of "plastic" solar cells, according to the inventor of tetrapods. Paul Alivisatos, the inventor of semiconductor tetrapods and a professor at the University of California at Berkeley, said they promise to convert twice as much incident light into electricity. Tetrapods also promise to improve chemical sensors, biomedicine and optoelectronic devices, as well as serving as strengthening additives to plastic composites. "We have been studying these materials [II-VI semiconductors like cadmium tellurium, CdTe] because we already take rodsshapes of it and put...

<p>June 10 (Bloomberg) -- The Federal Bureau of Investigation is looking into a virus-like infection that has targeted the computers of banks worldwide, and officials warned financial institutions about the attack, the Associated Press reported.</p> <p>Computers of about 1,200 banks have been targeted by the virus, which tries to steal corporate passwords, AP said. The infection is known as ``BugBear.B'' and has spread to tens of thousands of consumer computers since last week.</p>

<p>MORGAN HILL, Calif. -- Tom Pounds waved his overflowing grocery basket at the wall and offered a glimpse of our shopping future. The coffee cans, razor blades, and other items in his basket each carried a stowaway -- a tiny chip, the size of a fleck of black pepper, coupled with an antenna. Each emitted a short burst of identifying data that streamed via radio waves to a sensor on the wall.</p>

Drivers may be taxed per mileJune 9, 2003THE British government is studying a model to tax motorists country-wide based on the time they spend on the road, according to reports. Satellites and computers would track motorists in order to bill them for the specific route they take, Minister of Transport Alistair Darling said to the British weekly. Commuters, school-run parents and motorway users would bear the brunt of a variable system, where charges would be highest for rush-hour travel and for using the most congested roads. Use of motorways in Britain is currently gratis. While tracking 24 million British motorists...

<p>This summer's hit "Matrix Reloaded" continues a frequent movie theme about computerized machines that are so advanced they actually think and end up taking over the world.</p> <p>The idea isn't as fanciful as it seems. Researchers at Michigan State University are working on artificially intelligent robots that are able to think, or at least learn from experiences, much as human children do.</p>

LIVERMORE, Calif. -- The National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory recently produced 10,400 Joules or 10.4 kiloJoules (kJ) of ultraviolet laser light in a single laser beamline, setting a world record for laser performance.In recent weeks NIF laser scientists also have used the first four NIF beamlines to set records for infrared and green single beam laser energies with 21 kJ and 11 kJ of energy delivered, respectively. NIF researchers focused this light into a special diagnostic system designed to provide precise measurements of laser beam quality and performance at these different frequencies. The NIF laser system...

<p>Doctors, scientists and public health officials across the nation went into overdrive within hours of the World Health Organization's first global alert on SARS, the deadly new virus from Asia. The word went out over phone trees, blast faxes, BlackBerry alerts, e-mail. And inside 24 hours, the U.S. public health system stood ready to tackle SARS — severe acute respiratory syndrome — as it became the world's latest "emerging disease."</p>

<p>Continuing bioterrorism scares are breathing new life into obscure scientific projects as the nation gropes for a way to defend itself from deadly microbes.</p> <p>The sudden interest in microbiology is fueled by revelations such as the discovery of a mobile bioterrorism laboratory that traveled Iraqi highways.</p>

Unix copyright IS ours, says SCO By Steve Ranger [06-06-2003] But the patents aren't, insists Novell SCO has hit back at its critics, insisting that it - not Novell - owns the copyright to Unix. The move is the latest in the skirmish begun by SCO with its threat to start an intellectual property war over Linux. The company claims that Linux illegally uses Unix code to which it holds the rights. SCO maintains that all rights to the Unix and UnixWare technology, including copyrights, were transferred to SCO as part of an Asset Purchase Agreement between Novell and...

An insight into the success of Apple's online music service has been provided by leaked details from a meeting with representatives from the independent record industry. According to notes published on the web, Apple has sold 3.5 million songs since it launched its iTunes music store at the end of April The computer manufacturer is selling about 500,000 songs a week and about half of those are sold as albums, allaying fears that people would choose individual tracks instead of a whole record. The notes from the 5 June presentation behind closed doors by Apple boss Steve Jobs were...

Verizon To Give Up Names Of Music File Sharers POSTED: 9:56 a.m. EDT June 6, 2003 NEW YORK -- They're giving up the information -- but not the fight. Officials at Verizon have turned over to the music industry the names of four Internet subscribers who are suspected of illegally offering free song downloads. But even though it turned over the information under court order, the communications company says it will fight the law that forced them to cough up the names. The Recording Industry Association of America hasn't decided what to do with the four Verizon customers. Verizon...

One of the first observers to see the evidence in the SCO Group Inc.'s intellectual-property claim against IBM and the Linux community says there are direct similarities between the Unix code that SCO claims control over and the Linux operating system. "My impression is that [SCO's claim] is credible," says Laura DiDio, a Yankee Group analyst who was shown the evidence by SCO Group earlier this week. "It appears to be the same" code. But DiDio says the developing battle could hinge on legal fine points that are hard to sort out in the current atmosphere of claims, denials, and...

June 6, 2003 New I.B.M. Supercomputer to Begin Its Weather WorkBy JOHN MARKOFF he nation's most powerful supercomputer for weather forecasting is scheduled to go online today, I.B.M. said yesterday, a machine that may eventually rival the Japanese Earth Simulator as the world's fastest supercomputer.The new computer, with a theoretical peak computing power of 7.3 trillion operations a second, is expected to be enhanced over the next few years, and it may reach speeds up to 100 trillion operations a second by 2009, I.B.M. said.It ranks third in the United States in speed, behind two Hewlett-Packard machines at Los...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oracle Corp., the world's No. 2 software maker, said on Friday it offered to buy rival PeopleSoft Inc. for $5.1 billion, a move designed to bolster its flagging position in business software programs. The deal signals the growing readiness by software executives to consolidate the struggling sector as corporate spending on technology has waned amid the slumping economy. Oracle said it would bypass management and go directly to shareholders on Monday with a cash offer of $16 a share, a 6 percent premium over PeopleSoft's closing price of $15.11 in Thursday's Nasdaq trading. PeopleSoft shares rose...

By eSecurityPlanet Staff Several antivirus software vendors issue alerts Thursday for W32/Bugbear-B, a dangerous network-aware virus that can disable antivirus and security programs. W32/Bugbear-B spreads by sending emails containing attachments and by locating shared resources on your network to which it can copy itself. The virus attempts to exploit a MIME and an IFRAME vulnerability in some versions of Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Outlook Express, and Internet Explorer. These vulnerabilities allow an executable attachment to run automatically, even if you do not double-click on the attachment. Microsoft has issued a patch which secures against these attacks. The patch can be downloaded...