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Group says MS is playing monopoly again
With a U.S. appeals court still reviewing a landmark antitrust ruling against Microsoft, the software giant's rivals on Thursday accused it of plotting a scheme to monopolize the Internet. Procomp, a group funded by Microsoft's competitors, charged Microsoft with planning to use its new Windows XP operating system and .Net strategy to extend its monopoly. The group said Microsoft plans to use its dominant Windows operating system and Internet Explorer browser to force consumers to adopt its new .Net Internet platform.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/ne...083124,00.html
Why Microsoft will never go with open-source
Lately, Microsoft has decided to deride and attack the open-source movement with strongly-worded rhetoric designed to create a panic in the technology marketplace. Many people have spent countless hours talking about why their arguments are incorrect and full of bunk. Fewer people have examined the facts of what lies beneath these arguments. The truth is this: Microsoft cannot and will not ever support the open-source or even the open standards movement.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/co...760032,00.html
Game makers aren't playing favorites
Major software publishers at this week's Electronic Entertainment Expo here are almost unanimously hedging their bets: They are creating games for multiple formats in hopes of establishing a foothold with whatever game console happens to become the market leader a year or two from now. And they're counting on the huge marketing budgets that the console makers will use to fight each other this fall to lure hordes of new customers, greatly expanding their potential customer base.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200...html?tag=mn_hd
Juno sued over subscriber limits
A customer has sued Juno Online Services, saying she was tricked into becoming a paid subscriber to the Internet service, which advertised its "free access." In the suit filed in state Supreme Court in Manhattan, Ann Louise Truschel said the company began billing her $14.95 a month as an "excessive user" after she was online for about eight days. Truschel was then charged $1.95 a minute to call the company to find out why she couldn't access the Internet for free, the suit claims.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200...html?tag=mn_hd
Music anti-piracy group issues official shrug
The struggling Secure Digital Music Initiative took another big step backward Friday, breaking from its latest meeting with an admission that members can't yet agree on an industry standard for anti-piracy. The group, made up of record labels, technology and consumer electronics companies, has been working for two years to find a way to protect digital music from unauthorized copying as it is released on the Web.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200...html?tag=mn_hd
Pentagon under daily attacks from hackers
Unidentified hackers have been trying to break into Defense Department computer networks in a constant push to disrupt U.S. military forces, the Pentagon's chief information officer said Thursday. The Defense Department is "probed on a daily basis by those who are trying, or planning, to disrupt our nation's military capabilities," acting Assistant Secretary of Defense Linton Wells told a House Armed Services subcommittee.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200...html?tag=cd_pr
Anti-piracy highflier lands with a thud
Preview Systems, once a high-flying anti-piracy technology company, said Friday that it is selling its assets and closing its doors. One of several companies that had hoped to help secure software, music and other digital products against unauthorized copying, Preview Systems found itself overshadowed in the market by competitors including Microsoft and InterTrust.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200...html?tag=cd_mh
Professor warns of threat to free speech
Edward Felten, the Princeton University professor who was muzzled from giving a speech about cracking digital watermarks, warned Thursday that if it happened to him, it could happen to you. Speaking in a packed Stanford University lecture hall, Felten said he thinks he will eventually win the rights to publish his work, which so far has been quashed by the entertainment industry.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200...html?tag=cd_mh
Sky Watchers Saved by the Jail
Stargazers rejoice: The cradle of amateur astronomy is safe once again. Astronomers around the world were spooked when the state of Vermont announced plans to build a prison four miles from Stellafane, the Springfield, Vermont, observatory and star-watching clubhouse. The deliciously dark skies around Stellafane would be diluted by the prison's bright lights, astronomers feared, hindering telescopes' ability to peer into the night.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology...,43893,00.html
Peer to Peer to Getting Paid
Shawn Fanning brought file trading to the masses, but Napster hasn't yet proved to be good business, and these days, good business is what really counts. So who's doing what with all this peer technology?
http://www.wired.com/news/technology...,43818,00.html
Bush Off by a Few Decades, Experts Say
These are not the 1970s. Try as President Bush might Thursday to portray America's energy troubles as a reprise of that decade's problems, there are striking differences. Where once the country suffered a sudden cutoff of oil--the result of the Arab oil embargo and the Iranian revolution--now it has plenty. Where once it was a sloppy hog for power, now it's a comparatively trim consumer. And where once it seemed utterly helpless to end its troubles, now it has a relatively simple, if painful, solution to most problems: higher prices.
http://www.latimes.com/business/cutt...s.topstory.htm
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