Peter Sayer

Secure64 Software Corp. has released software to turn an Itanium 2 server into a secure DNS (domain name service) appliance it says can handle 100,000 queries per second

Another role could soon be added to the many already performed by home gateway devices: identifying video pirates.

Apple Inc., the computer and digital music company, has bought rights to all "Apple" trademarks from Apple Corps. Ltd., the record company set up by The Beatles, ending a long-running trademark dispute between the two.

Google Inc. is offering some users of its Blogger Web site access to a new version of the blog hosting service allowing user-definable templates, tagging of posts, multiple authors, and faster publication of new posts, the company announced on its own blog.

Two banks and an insurance company have accepted Microsoft's offer of technical support for Novell Inc.'s Suse Enterprise Linux. One of the three, Credit Suisse Group, does not yet use Suse Linux, spokeswomen for the two software vendors said.

Microsoft Corp. has won approval for its Offfice Open XML document format from international standards body ECMA International.

The French government plans to make the region around Paris a centre of excellence for open-source software development, the French Minister of the Economy, Finance and Industry, Thierry Breton, said Monday.

Deputies elected to the French National Assembly in the next legislative session will find open-source software on the desktop PCs provided for their use.