Google sets registration deadline for shares auction
Google has set a Thursday [US] deadline for would-be investors to pre-qualify for the online-search company's auction-style stock offering, which Google said would take place "soon thereafter." More...

Rewarding IT innovation
Inventors of a new plastic optical fibre were awarded the $10,000 Australian Computer Society Eureka Prize for Information and Communication Technology Innovation last night in Sydney. More...

AOL updates AIM to fix flaw
America Online has posted a beta of its popular instant messaging client that fixes a vulnerability made public just a day before, and will follow up this week with a patch for the current version, 5.5. More...

Microsoft's August patch list offers only one entry
How embarrassing it would have been if, just days after Microsoft released its long-anticipated Windows XP Service Pack 2 update, it had to go public with a bunch of new bugs. More...

SCO considers upping 'Linux' licensing fee
The SCO Group is considering an increase in the cost of the intellectual-property licence it says companies should buy for using the open-source Linux operating system. More...