]
] Today, more than 70 companies from the consumer
] electronics, information technology, media and software
] industries held the first official meeting of the Blu-ray
] Disc Association.

They have some heavy hitters from both the computer and consumer electronics industries on board. There's a war brewing between
this and HD-DVD; blu-ray is better technology hands down. Maybe Sony's starting to learn its lesson from Betamax.

Blu-ray Disc Association Launches

] Sun Microsystems today took aim at two core pieces of its
] server strategy, announcing a new generation of
] UltraSPARC processors and a key software win for Solaris
] x86.

I can't believe Sun's still pissing away money on SPARC.

Sun hypes new UltraSPARC

] With a series of events being strung together, rumors
] about Google building a browser are running amok.

On the one hand, Google's backing could help beat back the tide of IE. The thought of a Google browser makes me uncomfortable, nonetheless.

Google Browser on Its Way?

] SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 19 - Standing before 30 executives
] from a Wall Street investment banking customer, Jonathan
] Schwartz, the 38-year-old software executive who is
] trying to revive the foundering computer company Sun
] Microsystems, acknowledged why his company was in
] trouble.

Sun's relaunching itself yet again. Not much new here ... McNeely still hysterically screaming how their going to beat Dell and IBM
because their tech is so much better... or something.

Anyone played with Solaris 10 yet?

Sun Looks to Wall Street in a Comeback Bid

] Record labels and Microsoft are in discussions about ways
] that the next generation of the Windows operating system,
] code-named Longhorn, can support copy-protected CD
] technology.

Labels, Microsoft in talks on CD copying

]
] America Online Inc.'s announcement Wednesday that it
] would abandon its attempts to support Microsoft's Sender
] ID e-mail authentication standard are a serious setback
] for the Redmond, Wash., software company.

AOL Dumps Microsoft's Sender ID

]
] Microsoft Internet Explorer is continuing to lose share
] in the browser market, as its much-smaller competitors
] chisel at its dominant position, new Web site visitor
] data shows.

Internet Explorer Loses More Market Share

] A U.K. consumer protection agency, the Office of Fair
] Trading (OFT), is reportedly investigating claims that
] Apple is unfairly charging U.K. customers a substantially
] higher price for iTunes downloads than it charges
] customers on the European continent. Brits pay 79p for
] each song. That comes out to about 1.20 euro, or 20% more
] than the 0.99-euro price that French and Germans must
] cough up.

Success Can Be Bitter, Apple

]
] Sender ID looks to be dead in the water, as far as the
] IETF is concerned. Or maybe it's on life support.
] Conceivably the decision could be reversed if Microsoft
] responded appropriately to concerns about their patent.
] Here's what the co-chairs wrote:

Sender ID Dead for Now

]
] SCO's 3rd quarter teleconference is eye-opening.
] Participants were Darl McBride and CFO Bert Young. They
] are having to do some belt-tightening, poor things. They
] have been bleeding money to their lawyers. $7.3 million
] in the last quarter alone. And SCOSource is not bringing
] in anything like what they are spending to try to get
] income from it.

Groklaw on the conference call.

SCO Downsizing, Worries About Hostile Takeover, Caps Legal Fees