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Two digital rights advocacy groups have filed a lawsuit against the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) in an attempt to get the office to turn over information about a secret international treaty being negotiated to step up cross-border enforcement of copyright and piracy laws.

A standards body developing security and policy improvements for the next version of a Web services-based registry specification stamped its work as an official standard on Thursday.

Legislative remedies may be needed to address the murky issues over intellectual property that have arisen out of The SCO Group’s lawsuit against IBM, an attorney said during the Open Source Business Conference 2004 event on Wednesday.

Momentum to migrate from Microsoft's proprietary software to open source software is rapidly gaining in Germany, where numerous enterprises are reacting to the U.S. software giant's licensing policy.

Anyone tracking the steadily increasing adoption of Linux by businesses around the globe is bound to be interested in up-to-date data on the Web technology choices being made by large enterprises. So it’s no surprise that someone of the caliber of Bob Metcalfe, inventor of Ethernet and co-founder of 3Com Corp., should have called the UK site Netcraft 'cool'--because this is exactly what Netcraft does. It’s a UK based site devoted to tracking technology used on the Internet.

If pressed to vote yea or nay, the "father of Java" said last week that he would cast his ballot in favour of making his creation more open-source, even though he recognizes that some of his Sun Microsystems colleagues make strong counterarguments.

As president and chief operating officer of Intel, Paul Otellini oversees the day-to-day running of the largest manufacturer of PC chips in the world. Alongside Microsoft, his company rode two decades of PC industry growth to become arguably the most successful company in Silicon Valley.

IBM Corp. revealed this week that it has begun development of a supercomputer that can achieve 1 trillion calculations per second.