WOLFSBURG, Germany -- HyperMegaNet UG, a maker of Macintosh computer clones, last week said it is ready to defend the use of .'s in its PearC computer line in court if necessary.
"First, we try to settle with Apple out of court," said a spokesman for HyperMegaNet, which is based here. "But if necessary, we are not afraid of going to court with Apple."
Like computers sold by Doral, Fla.-based Psystar Corp., which has been locked in a legal battle with Apple over its Mac clones since July, the PearCs run Mac OS X 10.5.
The HyperMegaNet spokesman said that Apple has yet to contact the company. Apple did not respond to a request for comment.
Gregg Keizer, Computerworld
May Open Data Center in Finnish Paper Mill
HAMINA, Finland -- Google Inc. said it might open a data center here, on the site of a closed paper mill that it has agreed to buy for #8364;40 million ($51 million U.S.).
Stora Enso Oyj, a paper production company in Helsinki, closed the mill last month.
"We are currently considering building a data center at this site," Google said in a statement. First, "there are a number of contingencies to be resolved and plans to be put in place," it added.
The transaction is slated to close during this year's first quarter.
Jeremy Kirk,
Briefly Noted
Fujitsu Ltd. has agreed to sell its struggling hard disk drive business to . for an undisclosed sum. The deal is expected to close by midyear. Tokyo-based Toshiba said the acquisition will allow it to enter the high-end drive business, and to expand its line of solid-state disk offerings.
Martyn Williams, IDG News Service