Apple sues Apple, again

Apple Computer is being sued by Apple Corps, the parent company for music legends The Beatles, for breach of contract, according to Fox News.

The service reports that The Beatles have sued and won against Apple Computer before, and that part of a previous agreement provided that the company may not enter the music marketplace. The latest round of legal proceedings surrounds Apple`s iPod and the iTunes Music Store.

OracleWorld was back on schedule yesterday after a bomb scare the previous afternoon resulted in the evacuation of San Francisco`s Moscone Centre, reports InformationWeek.

Meanwhile, HP CEO Carly Fiorina dropped a bomb of her own by saying, "grid computing has been more hype than reality", but added that it held great promise, according to CNet.

And Larry Ellison, Oracle CEO and chairman, called grid computing "a new architecture that [allows systems] to act as one computer, but ... [with] no single point of failure". According to NBR, Ellison said grid computing is "technology that keeps getting better and better".

In his first public interview since taking on the responsibilities of Sun co-founder and chief scientist Bill Joy, Sun Microsystems` new chief technology officer, Greg Papadopoulos, gave eWeek a glimpse of Sun`s future. He also paid tribute to Joy, saying his "legacy is broader than Sun. It`s really to the whole community of the Internet."

Oasis, an international standards body, has approved specifications for using Web services to deliver information to Internet portals, a move that could eventually make it easier for companies to distribute news, entertainment and corporate information, reports InformationWeek.

Parents beware: Kazaa has a new target - the telephone industry. According to CNet, the company has launched Skype, which it claims is the first Internet phone service to use peer-to-peer software. In its first week of availability, 60 000 people downloaded the free Skype software.

Microsoft has suffered another legal setback in the patent dispute with software developer Eolas, and is now advising Web authors on workarounds in Internet Explorer (IE), as new details emerge of its plans to tweak IE.

CNet reports that a federal judge last week rejected Microsoft`s post-trial claim that Eolas had misrepresented the facts in the patent case, which claimed the software giant had stolen browser technology relating to plug-ins.

Just as you cannot hear yourself think at parties, too many WiFi networks can make it difficult to implement more of the same, reports eWeek. The site recalls "wireless snafus at TechEd in Barcelona and CeBIT in Hanover", both with the same cause: an expert network installer failed to produce a working network because there were too many wireless units.

This week, SCO CEO Darl McBride accused the president of the Open Source Initiative, Eric Raymond, and the open source community in general of not doing enough to stop distributed denial of service attacks on SCO`s Web site. eWeek reports that Raymond responded in an e-mail that McBride`s arguments are "falsehoods, half-truths, evasions, slanders and misrepresentations".