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walktalker · 12-10-01, 04:46 PM

Microsoft, government still can't agree
The government and Microsoft have failed to settle their landmark antitrust case before the first deadline imposed by a federal judge, sources said Friday. The two sides also appear to have been unable to agree on a mediator for the remaining discussions, indicating that a deep gulf of differences could separate the parties. Lawyers representing Microsoft, the Justice Department and 18 states delivered the news in a conference call Friday with U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, said sources familiar with the call. If the parties did not submit a mediator for the judge's approval, she could assign one or allow the process to continue without third-party oversight.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/ne...kpt=zdnnp1tp01

Apple, HP oppose W3C patent plan
Apple Computer and Hewlett-Packard have both submitted statements to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) urging the organization not to adopt a policy that would permit the charging of royalties for technologies used in approved standards. The W3C works with developers and others to come up with standards. It has been considering whether to adopt a new policy that would allow companies to patent technologies used in standards, and then charge royalties for using those technologies. Representatives from both HP and Apple are listed among the authors of the proposal, and both companies are members of the working group discussing the issue.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/ne...kpt=zdnnp1tp02

Cell phone messaging increasing in U.S.
People in the United States are using their cell phones more often to send terse 160-character messages to other cell phones, a trend already wildly popular overseas. There are 750 million of these cell phone messages sent each day worldwide, nearly all by wireless users outside the United States, according to the GSM Association, a wireless industry group. Teenagers in Japan send so many messages that they have learned to touch-type on a cell phone's cramped keypad. In Ireland, beer-maker Guinness raises messaging to an art form by sponsoring contests for poetry composed on cell phones.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/ne...kpt=zdnnp1tp02

Takeover talk focuses on EMC
In an industry where executives like to name their products Thunder, Lightning and Shark, competition has always been treacherous. But predators may be particularly keen on circling EMC--the largest independent provider of storage systems and a company once thought to be immune to recession. Some storage veterans are betting on a deal linking EMC and IBM -- longtime rivals whose executives revel in insulting each other. While there is no consensus among analysts or industry executives that EMC is bound to be part of any merger -- either as a buyer or a seller -- the storage industry is facing the type of downturn that often results in significant consolidation.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/ne...kpt=zdnnp1tp02

Senate OKs bill -- it's tech vs. terrorists
The Senate late Thursday passed a White House-backed bill to expand the powers of law enforcement to allow wiretapping of suspected terrorists, sharing of intelligence information about them and subpoenas of their e-mail transmissions. The House of Representatives is expected to approve similar legislation Friday. Differences between the two will then be resolved before a final bill is sent to President Bush to sign into law, possibly next week. Bush praised the Senate for moving swiftly.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/ne...kpt=zdnnp1tp02

Home videos star in online attack coverage
On the morning of Sept. 11, David Vogler saw the first jet airliner slam into the World Trade Center and started to run. The graphic designer would later join the streams of dazed New Yorkers leaving the scene, but for the moment his destination was closer by. Returning with a digital video camera from his Battery Park apartment, he hit the "record" button. About an hour later, his clips of the disaster, seen from street level just blocks away, were online.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200...html?tag=tp_pr

Judge puts brakes on .biz addresses
In the latest setback for efforts to expand the Internet address system, a state court in California has temporarily blocked the activation of some new domain names ending in .biz. A Los Angeles Superior Court judge on Thursday issued a preliminary injunction against domain registry NeuLevel, pending a lawsuit charging that some .biz domain names were assigned through an illegal lottery. NeuLevel said the injunction covers less than 20 percent of the domain names registered to date and that it expects to send all uncontested addresses live Oct. 23 as scheduled.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200...html?tag=mn_hd

Legislators renew push for privacy rules
A bipartisan group of lawmakers on Friday presented an outline for a national consumer-privacy bill, just days after a federal agency downplayed the need for such a law. Rep. Cliff Stearns, R-Fla.; Rep. Rick Boucher, D-Va.; Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va.; and Billy Tauzin, R-La.; endorsed a draft of standards designed to protect consumers' privacy online and offline. The framework for legislation would add teeth to voluntary self-regulation efforts, which currently encourage but do not require companies to provide notice and choice about their data-collection practices, Boucher said.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200...html?tag=mn_hd

Hijackers may have sent coded messages on Internet
As White House officials warned that Osama bin Laden may be sending secret coded messages to his followers through videotaped statements, federal investigators are checking into the possibility that the Sept. 11 hijackers did the same thing on the Internet. Law enforcement specialists say that terrorists have been using hidden messages in computer files for years. In past investigations, encrypted messages have been ferreted out from files deep within password-protected computers.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...2/MN204183.DTL

Hoax e-mail warns of mall attack
At a time when Americans are plagued by a generalized fear of an invisible enemy, the latest urban legend from the Internet warns specifically of a terrorist attack on a mall on Halloween. The e-mail message, which began circulating Oct. 5, describes a story the author heard from a "friend of a friend'' whose Afghan boyfriend stood her up on a date Sept. 6. On Sept. 10, the e-mail message says, she received a letter begging her not to get on any commercial airlines the next day and not to go to any malls on Halloween. After Sept. 11, the message said, she gave the letter to the FBI.
http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/ho...ack/045342.htm

IBM's new chips slash power consumption
IBM is coming out with a new line of PowerPC chips that will consume less power by shutting down parts of the chip that aren't in use. The PowerPC 405LP will contain circuitry that will turn sections of the processor off and on as needed, similar to the Banias chip coming from Intel in 2003. Combined with existing power-management features such as silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology and copper wiring, the new on-off features could lead to a chip that uses one-tenth as much power as predecessors.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200...html?tag=cd_pr

Publishers license jingles for cell phones
A major agency that represents songwriters said Thursday that it had begun a program to license the jingles that play on cell phones, a move to claim a share of what is expected to be a multibillion-dollar market. At issue is the use of ring tones -- digitally delivered music files that play melodies for up to 30 seconds in length when consumers receive incoming calls on cell phones. The tones allow people to personalize their phones with their favorite songs and are already hugely popular in Europe and Asia, said Gary Churgin, chief executive of the Harry Fox Agency, a licensing agent for more than 27,000 music publishers who represent more than 160,000 songwriters.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1004-200...html?tag=cd_mh

Attacks ground Windows XP's "Fly" ads
Microsoft will kick off the advertising campaign for its upcoming Windows XP operating system next week with the slogan, "Yes You Can," after "Prepare to Fly" was scrapped in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, company executives said Thursday. Microsoft's ad blitz is part of a four-month, $200 million marketing program around Windows XP, the latest version of the software giant's flagship product. Many in the PC and software industries are hoping Windows XP will breathe life into the sectors, which have been hammered by the slowing economy and sagging consumer confidence.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200...html?tag=cd_mh

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12-10-01, 04:46 PM	#1
walktalker The local newspaper man Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Montreal Posts: 2,036	The Newspaper Shop -- Friday edition Microsoft, government still can't agree The government and Microsoft have failed to settle their landmark antitrust case before the first deadline imposed by a federal judge, sources said Friday. The two sides also appear to have been unable to agree on a mediator for the remaining discussions, indicating that a deep gulf of differences could separate the parties. Lawyers representing Microsoft, the Justice Department and 18 states delivered the news in a conference call Friday with U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, said sources familiar with the call. If the parties did not submit a mediator for the judge's approval, she could assign one or allow the process to continue without third-party oversight. http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/ne...kpt=zdnnp1tp01 Apple, HP oppose W3C patent plan Apple Computer and Hewlett-Packard have both submitted statements to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) urging the organization not to adopt a policy that would permit the charging of royalties for technologies used in approved standards. The W3C works with developers and others to come up with standards. It has been considering whether to adopt a new policy that would allow companies to patent technologies used in standards, and then charge royalties for using those technologies. Representatives from both HP and Apple are listed among the authors of the proposal, and both companies are members of the working group discussing the issue. http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/ne...kpt=zdnnp1tp02 Cell phone messaging increasing in U.S. People in the United States are using their cell phones more often to send terse 160-character messages to other cell phones, a trend already wildly popular overseas. There are 750 million of these cell phone messages sent each day worldwide, nearly all by wireless users outside the United States, according to the GSM Association, a wireless industry group. Teenagers in Japan send so many messages that they have learned to touch-type on a cell phone's cramped keypad. In Ireland, beer-maker Guinness raises messaging to an art form by sponsoring contests for poetry composed on cell phones. http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/ne...kpt=zdnnp1tp02 Takeover talk focuses on EMC In an industry where executives like to name their products Thunder, Lightning and Shark, competition has always been treacherous. But predators may be particularly keen on circling EMC--the largest independent provider of storage systems and a company once thought to be immune to recession. Some storage veterans are betting on a deal linking EMC and IBM -- longtime rivals whose executives revel in insulting each other. While there is no consensus among analysts or industry executives that EMC is bound to be part of any merger -- either as a buyer or a seller -- the storage industry is facing the type of downturn that often results in significant consolidation. http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/ne...kpt=zdnnp1tp02 Senate OKs bill -- it's tech vs. terrorists The Senate late Thursday passed a White House-backed bill to expand the powers of law enforcement to allow wiretapping of suspected terrorists, sharing of intelligence information about them and subpoenas of their e-mail transmissions. The House of Representatives is expected to approve similar legislation Friday. Differences between the two will then be resolved before a final bill is sent to President Bush to sign into law, possibly next week. Bush praised the Senate for moving swiftly. http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/ne...kpt=zdnnp1tp02 Home videos star in online attack coverage On the morning of Sept. 11, David Vogler saw the first jet airliner slam into the World Trade Center and started to run. The graphic designer would later join the streams of dazed New Yorkers leaving the scene, but for the moment his destination was closer by. Returning with a digital video camera from his Battery Park apartment, he hit the "record" button. About an hour later, his clips of the disaster, seen from street level just blocks away, were online. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200...html?tag=tp_pr Judge puts brakes on .biz addresses In the latest setback for efforts to expand the Internet address system, a state court in California has temporarily blocked the activation of some new domain names ending in .biz. A Los Angeles Superior Court judge on Thursday issued a preliminary injunction against domain registry NeuLevel, pending a lawsuit charging that some .biz domain names were assigned through an illegal lottery. NeuLevel said the injunction covers less than 20 percent of the domain names registered to date and that it expects to send all uncontested addresses live Oct. 23 as scheduled. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200...html?tag=mn_hd Legislators renew push for privacy rules A bipartisan group of lawmakers on Friday presented an outline for a national consumer-privacy bill, just days after a federal agency downplayed the need for such a law. Rep. Cliff Stearns, R-Fla.; Rep. Rick Boucher, D-Va.; Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va.; and Billy Tauzin, R-La.; endorsed a draft of standards designed to protect consumers' privacy online and offline. The framework for legislation would add teeth to voluntary self-regulation efforts, which currently encourage but do not require companies to provide notice and choice about their data-collection practices, Boucher said. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200...html?tag=mn_hd Hijackers may have sent coded messages on Internet As White House officials warned that Osama bin Laden may be sending secret coded messages to his followers through videotaped statements, federal investigators are checking into the possibility that the Sept. 11 hijackers did the same thing on the Internet. Law enforcement specialists say that terrorists have been using hidden messages in computer files for years. In past investigations, encrypted messages have been ferreted out from files deep within password-protected computers. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...2/MN204183.DTL Hoax e-mail warns of mall attack At a time when Americans are plagued by a generalized fear of an invisible enemy, the latest urban legend from the Internet warns specifically of a terrorist attack on a mall on Halloween. The e-mail message, which began circulating Oct. 5, describes a story the author heard from a "friend of a friend'' whose Afghan boyfriend stood her up on a date Sept. 6. On Sept. 10, the e-mail message says, she received a letter begging her not to get on any commercial airlines the next day and not to go to any malls on Halloween. After Sept. 11, the message said, she gave the letter to the FBI. http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/ho...ack/045342.htm IBM's new chips slash power consumption IBM is coming out with a new line of PowerPC chips that will consume less power by shutting down parts of the chip that aren't in use. The PowerPC 405LP will contain circuitry that will turn sections of the processor off and on as needed, similar to the Banias chip coming from Intel in 2003. Combined with existing power-management features such as silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology and copper wiring, the new on-off features could lead to a chip that uses one-tenth as much power as predecessors. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200...html?tag=cd_pr Publishers license jingles for cell phones A major agency that represents songwriters said Thursday that it had begun a program to license the jingles that play on cell phones, a move to claim a share of what is expected to be a multibillion-dollar market. At issue is the use of ring tones -- digitally delivered music files that play melodies for up to 30 seconds in length when consumers receive incoming calls on cell phones. The tones allow people to personalize their phones with their favorite songs and are already hugely popular in Europe and Asia, said Gary Churgin, chief executive of the Harry Fox Agency, a licensing agent for more than 27,000 music publishers who represent more than 160,000 songwriters. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1004-200...html?tag=cd_mh Attacks ground Windows XP's "Fly" ads Microsoft will kick off the advertising campaign for its upcoming Windows XP operating system next week with the slogan, "Yes You Can," after "Prepare to Fly" was scrapped in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, company executives said Thursday. Microsoft's ad blitz is part of a four-month, $200 million marketing program around Windows XP, the latest version of the software giant's flagship product. Many in the PC and software industries are hoping Windows XP will breathe life into the sectors, which have been hammered by the slowing economy and sagging consumer confidence. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200...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