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walktalker · 15-04-02, 08:38 PM

Richard Strauss' Sunrise playing in the background lol

U.S. to MS: We won't help you kill case
The U.S. government on Monday declined to back Microsoft's effort to throw out claims that nine states have made against it on grounds that a proposed antitrust settlement has already been reached with the federal government. Microsoft in February had asked the judge in the landmark antitrust case to dismiss the states' proposed antitrust sanctions, arguing that they lack standing without the federal government's support.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-883362.html

HP upgrades DVD+RW drives -- at a price
Hewlett-Packard will offer frustrated customers who own its first DVD-rewritable drive a chance to trade it in for a model that will support record-once DVD discs -- but it will cost $99. The company will swap the first-generation DVD100i drives with ones that will handle both DVD+RW (DVD-rewritable) discs and the less-expensive DVD+R (DVD-recordable) discs. Last month the PC maker backed off of its initial claims that it would offer an upgrade for its earlier drive, the DVD100i, saying it would not be possible.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103-883124.html

Intel price cuts usher in new P4
Intel cut prices on Pentium 4 and Pentium III chips for desktops and on several low-voltage mobile chips on Sunday by up to 32 percent to make way for new processors that will appear over the next few weeks, the company said. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based chipmaker slashed prices on the 2.2GHz Pentium 4 by 25 percent, dropping it from $562 to $423, while it cut the price of the 2GHz Pentium 4 by 22 percent, sliding it from $364 to $284. The 1.2GHz Pentium III for desktops went from $241 to $163, a 32 percent decline.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103-882917.html

Labels to count cost of pirates' plunder
Record executives Tuesday will gather at a plush London hotel to release annual global music sales figures, but this year music pirates are expected to steal the spotlight from the chart-toppers. The event, hosted by International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), had been the measuring stick to determine who's hot and who's not in the fickle recording industry. Lately though, the gathering has taken on a more somber tone as executives decry the amount of business they're losing to rampant CD-copying, or "burning," and Internet file-swapping services such as Kazaa and Morpheus.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1106-882873.html

Microsoft Freestyle PCs: New digital hub?
This holiday season, a new breed of Windows PCs will land on store shelves. The question is whether people will go for them. Hewlett-Packard, Samsung and some other PC manufacturers will be selling upscale Windows XP computers with Freestyle, an additional software module from Microsoft that lets consumers use their PCs to record TV programs like a TiVo set-top box. Freestyle PCs will also come with a remote control.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103-882431.html

Home phones losing out to cell phones?
Cordless-phone makers are pulling out all the stops to hold on to their customers. An increasing number of people with both a cell phone and a home phone are choosing to junk their landline. In response, the makers of cordless phones are going on the offensive, making their phones look and feel more like cell phones -- or even act like them. "Many people in this industry are very, very worried," said Howard Gutowitz, founder of Eatoni Ergonomics, which makes software used to enter text into cordless phones.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103-882429.html

Classroom bullies harnessing Net power
Playground bullies are harnessing the power of technology to persecute their victims around the clock, a U.K.-based children's charity warned Monday. NCH, one of the United Kingdom's leading children's charities, said the latest generation of schoolchildren is without refuge from a phenomenon that all too often drives vulnerable children to suicide -- with one in every four suffering bullying by text-message or e-mail, or in Internet chat rooms.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-882613.html

Listen.com warms to CD burning
Listen.com said Monday that it plans to let some songs on its digital music service be copied onto CDs, a step toward allowing its subscribers to play music when they want, where they want. The music service provider said that each month, subscribers to its Rhapsody service will be able to burn onto CDs a limited number of tracks from classical music label Naxos of America. Listen.com plans to offer the feature, which will use NewTech Infosystems' CD-Writing Engine, in its Rhapsody 1.5, expected in next month.
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-883154.html

FTC expands anti-fraud sweeps
Federal regulators said Monday that they have filed charges against 11 companies that they accused of running -- online and off -- a variety of scams, from loans that did not come through to work-at-home schemes that promised easy riches. The companies named in a series of complaints sold a range of services to consumers, the Federal Trade Commission said. Some promised loans or credit cards that never materialized, while others offered to help consumers set up their own medical-billing or envelope-stuffing businesses that had long odds of success.
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-883316.html

In defense of copyright
Morton David Goldberg's name is hardly a household word for technology geeks worried about the corporate drive to take ownership of intellectual property to unprecedented heights. But Goldberg, a partner at Cowan Liebowitz and Latman in New York, has spent nearly 50 years working as a copyright attorney. He's also lectured at Stanford, served as president of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A. and advised the World Intellectual Property Organization. His profile is also set to rise. Goldberg has become the unofficial point man for a movement within the American Bar Association to defend the controversial Sonny Bono Copyright Extension Act.
http://salon.com/tech/feature/2002/0...nse/index.html

Hack a server? Win $100,000
A Korean company is offering $100,000 in a 48-hour hacking competition, to be run this week. Korea Digital Works (KDWorks) will launch the competition, which will involve gaining root access to a server, on April 16 at 11 a.m. Korean Standard Time. The competition is aimed at demonstrating the resilience of KDWorks' World OK Security (WOKS) solution, according to Justin Kim, an attorney with U.S.-based Mike Choi International Consulting, who is helping to promote the event.
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-882663.html

Linux geeks play Hollywood politics
Spooked by Hollywood-backed legislation that seeks to regulate technology, Linux geeks plan to launch a political-action committee that fights back. Jeff Gerhardt, host of "The Linux Show," and Doc Searls, senior editor of the Linux Journal, are forming a lobbying group called GeekPAC that would try to convince lawmakers to consider developers when they draft laws concerning technology. The goal is to ensure that legislative attempts to protect the interests of companies such as Walt Disney and the Baby Bells don't stifle technological development.
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-881936.html

Waiter, there's a fly in my cell phone
British Telecommunications is learning that not all bugs are bad when it comes to computing and network technology. The telecommunications company has found that the way a fruit fly grows its exoskeleton has useful lessons for a company trying to figure out how to get the most use out of a network of cell phone antennas. The general approach is to let parts of the network negotiate their configurations among themselves rather than to dictate the settings from a central location, said Mark Shackleton, project manager for pervasive computing at British Telecommunications' BTexact research labs.
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-882200.html?tag=cd_mh

Mozilla poised for revival
Mozilla is an unlikely candidate for a comeback, given that it is barely sliding out of the box. But a comeback is exactly what the open-source project hopes to pull off in the next few weeks, when the Netscape Communications-backed effort releases the first official version of its Web browser. After four years in development, the pending event has renewed excitement in a project that once was hailed as a possible Microsoft killer -- only to tumble into obscurity after lengthy delays.
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-881529.html

Google tests search tools for developers
Google is quietly testing a new service that lets Web developers perform automated searches of its vast Internet database and publish the results on their own sites. The service, launched Thursday, is called Google Web APIs, for application programming interfaces. The tools let noncommercial software developers "query more than 2 billion Web documents directly from their own computer programs," according to Google's Web site. For now, the service is free. After registering with Google and downloading an instruction kit, developers are allowed to conduct up to 1,000 automated queries a day -- a practice that is forbidden on the site otherwise.
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-882252.html?tag=cd_mh

Anti-copying firm eases CD controls
SunnComm is adding a spoonful of sugar to its anti-copying medicine. The Phoenix, Ariz.-based copy-protection company has been the target of consumer outrage over its technology, which is designed to stop people from shifting music tracks from CDs to their computers. On Thursday, it offered a compromise, adding a feature that lets people e-mail songs from protected albums to family and friends. SunnComm said a file expires after the recipient listens to the song a certain number of times.
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-882221.html?tag=cd_mh

Digital ads entangle "Spider-Man"The owners of coveted billboard space in Times Square are trying to tangle the makers of the "Spider-Man" movie in their own web of woes. Alleging a litany of violations ranging from trespassing and piracy to deceptive trade practices, Sherwood 48 Associates and Super Sign have sued Sony and other companies involved in making and distributing the upcoming "Spider-Man" movie for digitally superimposing advertisements for other companies over their billboard space in the film.
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-882158.html?tag=cd_mh

Spam throws on a disguise
Spam's newest pitches are coming to you courtesy of friends and co-workers -- or so it might seem. In one of the latest marketing gimmicks circulating the Net, the sender comes disguised as a corporate network administrator with the subject line: "Your mailbox is over its size limit." Once opened, however, the e-mail's message lewdly invites the recipient to view adult material. Such spam tricks are designed to make spam harder to ignore -- an increasingly difficult task with skeptical consumers battling e-mail overload. As a result, commercial messages with familiar-looking origins and subject lines are becoming the norm.
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-881979.html?tag=cd_mh

More news later on

15-04-02, 08:38 PM	#1
walktalker The local newspaper man Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Montreal Posts: 2,036	That's the Newspaper Shop -- Monday edition Richard Strauss' Sunrise playing in the background lol U.S. to MS: We won't help you kill case The U.S. government on Monday declined to back Microsoft's effort to throw out claims that nine states have made against it on grounds that a proposed antitrust settlement has already been reached with the federal government. Microsoft in February had asked the judge in the landmark antitrust case to dismiss the states' proposed antitrust sanctions, arguing that they lack standing without the federal government's support. http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-883362.html HP upgrades DVD+RW drives -- at a price Hewlett-Packard will offer frustrated customers who own its first DVD-rewritable drive a chance to trade it in for a model that will support record-once DVD discs -- but it will cost $99. The company will swap the first-generation DVD100i drives with ones that will handle both DVD+RW (DVD-rewritable) discs and the less-expensive DVD+R (DVD-recordable) discs. Last month the PC maker backed off of its initial claims that it would offer an upgrade for its earlier drive, the DVD100i, saying it would not be possible. http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103-883124.html Intel price cuts usher in new P4 Intel cut prices on Pentium 4 and Pentium III chips for desktops and on several low-voltage mobile chips on Sunday by up to 32 percent to make way for new processors that will appear over the next few weeks, the company said. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based chipmaker slashed prices on the 2.2GHz Pentium 4 by 25 percent, dropping it from $562 to $423, while it cut the price of the 2GHz Pentium 4 by 22 percent, sliding it from $364 to $284. The 1.2GHz Pentium III for desktops went from $241 to $163, a 32 percent decline. http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103-882917.html Labels to count cost of pirates' plunder Record executives Tuesday will gather at a plush London hotel to release annual global music sales figures, but this year music pirates are expected to steal the spotlight from the chart-toppers. The event, hosted by International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), had been the measuring stick to determine who's hot and who's not in the fickle recording industry. Lately though, the gathering has taken on a more somber tone as executives decry the amount of business they're losing to rampant CD-copying, or "burning," and Internet file-swapping services such as Kazaa and Morpheus. http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1106-882873.html Microsoft Freestyle PCs: New digital hub? This holiday season, a new breed of Windows PCs will land on store shelves. The question is whether people will go for them. Hewlett-Packard, Samsung and some other PC manufacturers will be selling upscale Windows XP computers with Freestyle, an additional software module from Microsoft that lets consumers use their PCs to record TV programs like a TiVo set-top box. Freestyle PCs will also come with a remote control. http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103-882431.html Home phones losing out to cell phones? Cordless-phone makers are pulling out all the stops to hold on to their customers. An increasing number of people with both a cell phone and a home phone are choosing to junk their landline. In response, the makers of cordless phones are going on the offensive, making their phones look and feel more like cell phones -- or even act like them. "Many people in this industry are very, very worried," said Howard Gutowitz, founder of Eatoni Ergonomics, which makes software used to enter text into cordless phones. http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103-882429.html Classroom bullies harnessing Net power Playground bullies are harnessing the power of technology to persecute their victims around the clock, a U.K.-based children's charity warned Monday. NCH, one of the United Kingdom's leading children's charities, said the latest generation of schoolchildren is without refuge from a phenomenon that all too often drives vulnerable children to suicide -- with one in every four suffering bullying by text-message or e-mail, or in Internet chat rooms. http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-882613.html Listen.com warms to CD burning Listen.com said Monday that it plans to let some songs on its digital music service be copied onto CDs, a step toward allowing its subscribers to play music when they want, where they want. The music service provider said that each month, subscribers to its Rhapsody service will be able to burn onto CDs a limited number of tracks from classical music label Naxos of America. Listen.com plans to offer the feature, which will use NewTech Infosystems' CD-Writing Engine, in its Rhapsody 1.5, expected in next month. http://news.com.com/2100-1023-883154.html FTC expands anti-fraud sweeps Federal regulators said Monday that they have filed charges against 11 companies that they accused of running -- online and off -- a variety of scams, from loans that did not come through to work-at-home schemes that promised easy riches. The companies named in a series of complaints sold a range of services to consumers, the Federal Trade Commission said. Some promised loans or credit cards that never materialized, while others offered to help consumers set up their own medical-billing or envelope-stuffing businesses that had long odds of success. http://news.com.com/2100-1023-883316.html In defense of copyright Morton David Goldberg's name is hardly a household word for technology geeks worried about the corporate drive to take ownership of intellectual property to unprecedented heights. But Goldberg, a partner at Cowan Liebowitz and Latman in New York, has spent nearly 50 years working as a copyright attorney. He's also lectured at Stanford, served as president of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A. and advised the World Intellectual Property Organization. His profile is also set to rise. Goldberg has become the unofficial point man for a movement within the American Bar Association to defend the controversial Sonny Bono Copyright Extension Act. http://salon.com/tech/feature/2002/0...nse/index.html Hack a server? Win $100,000 A Korean company is offering $100,000 in a 48-hour hacking competition, to be run this week. Korea Digital Works (KDWorks) will launch the competition, which will involve gaining root access to a server, on April 16 at 11 a.m. Korean Standard Time. The competition is aimed at demonstrating the resilience of KDWorks' World OK Security (WOKS) solution, according to Justin Kim, an attorney with U.S.-based Mike Choi International Consulting, who is helping to promote the event. http://news.com.com/2100-1001-882663.html Linux geeks play Hollywood politics Spooked by Hollywood-backed legislation that seeks to regulate technology, Linux geeks plan to launch a political-action committee that fights back. Jeff Gerhardt, host of "The Linux Show," and Doc Searls, senior editor of the Linux Journal, are forming a lobbying group called GeekPAC that would try to convince lawmakers to consider developers when they draft laws concerning technology. The goal is to ensure that legislative attempts to protect the interests of companies such as Walt Disney and the Baby Bells don't stifle technological development. http://news.com.com/2100-1023-881936.html Waiter, there's a fly in my cell phone British Telecommunications is learning that not all bugs are bad when it comes to computing and network technology. The telecommunications company has found that the way a fruit fly grows its exoskeleton has useful lessons for a company trying to figure out how to get the most use out of a network of cell phone antennas. The general approach is to let parts of the network negotiate their configurations among themselves rather than to dictate the settings from a central location, said Mark Shackleton, project manager for pervasive computing at British Telecommunications' BTexact research labs. http://news.com.com/2100-1001-882200.html?tag=cd_mh Mozilla poised for revival Mozilla is an unlikely candidate for a comeback, given that it is barely sliding out of the box. But a comeback is exactly what the open-source project hopes to pull off in the next few weeks, when the Netscape Communications-backed effort releases the first official version of its Web browser. After four years in development, the pending event has renewed excitement in a project that once was hailed as a possible Microsoft killer -- only to tumble into obscurity after lengthy delays. http://news.com.com/2100-1023-881529.html Google tests search tools for developers Google is quietly testing a new service that lets Web developers perform automated searches of its vast Internet database and publish the results on their own sites. The service, launched Thursday, is called Google Web APIs, for application programming interfaces. The tools let noncommercial software developers "query more than 2 billion Web documents directly from their own computer programs," according to Google's Web site. For now, the service is free. After registering with Google and downloading an instruction kit, developers are allowed to conduct up to 1,000 automated queries a day -- a practice that is forbidden on the site otherwise. http://news.com.com/2100-1023-882252.html?tag=cd_mh Anti-copying firm eases CD controls SunnComm is adding a spoonful of sugar to its anti-copying medicine. The Phoenix, Ariz.-based copy-protection company has been the target of consumer outrage over its technology, which is designed to stop people from shifting music tracks from CDs to their computers. On Thursday, it offered a compromise, adding a feature that lets people e-mail songs from protected albums to family and friends. SunnComm said a file expires after the recipient listens to the song a certain number of times. http://news.com.com/2100-1023-882221.html?tag=cd_mh Digital ads entangle "Spider-Man"The owners of coveted billboard space in Times Square are trying to tangle the makers of the "Spider-Man" movie in their own web of woes. Alleging a litany of violations ranging from trespassing and piracy to deceptive trade practices, Sherwood 48 Associates and Super Sign have sued Sony and other companies involved in making and distributing the upcoming "Spider-Man" movie for digitally superimposing advertisements for other companies over their billboard space in the film. http://news.com.com/2100-1023-882158.html?tag=cd_mh Spam throws on a disguise Spam's newest pitches are coming to you courtesy of friends and co-workers -- or so it might seem. In one of the latest marketing gimmicks circulating the Net, the sender comes disguised as a corporate network administrator with the subject line: "Your mailbox is over its size limit." Once opened, however, the e-mail's message lewdly invites the recipient to view adult material. Such spam tricks are designed to make spam harder to ignore -- an increasingly difficult task with skeptical consumers battling e-mail overload. As a result, commercial messages with familiar-looking origins and subject lines are becoming the norm. http://news.com.com/2100-1023-881979.html?tag=cd_mh More news later on __________________ This post was sponsored by Netcoco, who wants cookies, cookies, cookies and, you guessed it, more cookies