Web-streaming software company RealNetworks today said that it has ended its nine-month legal battle against rival Streambox by agreeing to an out-of-court settlement, CNET News is reporting.
MacWEEK is reporting, Parallel ATA, the reigning standard for connecting internal hard drives to Macs and PCs, is about to
give way to Serial ATA, a new version of the specification that will allow faster throughput for future generations of speedier drives.
Despite expectations to the contrary, the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday did not announce whether it would hear MicroSoft’s appeal of the government’s landmark antitrust case against the software maker, IDG News Service reports.
NewsAlert reports, the software platform is based on open standards and technologies: Linux operating
system, Xfree86-windowing system, the Mozilla web browser and compliant protocols
and standards.
According to Techweb News, Sun is rolling out an embedded version of its 64-bit Ultrasparc II that it expects to have in production by November, targeting rack-mounted servers, line cards, telecommunications switches, and network routers.
ZDNet: U.S. Internet giant America Online Inc. and Time Warner Inc. have offered concessions to meet European Union competition concerns in a bid to win approval for their merger, an EU spokeswoman said on Friday.
Linux PR: “This is a tremendous coup for Linux games,” said Scott Draeker, president of Loki Software. “The Linux version of this masterpiece will be released near-simultaneously with the Windows version in Q1 2001.”
LinuxPlanet talks with Darin Adler, whose position with Eazel is described by the company’s publicists as roughly that of Vice President of Software Engineering.