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walktalker · 30-05-01, 04:53 PM

IBM looks to Japan for Linux progress
IBM is participating in two Japanese initiatives to improve Linux, projects that illustrate the peculiar nature of the development of the operating system. The first is a joint project among Big Blue and Japanese server leaders NEC, Fujitsu and Hitachi to improve Linux for big businesses. The second project, separate but with similar goals, is a new Japanese branch of the Open-Source Development Lab (OSDL), where programmers can test their software on expensive high-end systems.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200...html?tag=cd_mh

EarthLink tunes in to online radio
Internet service provider EarthLink said Wednesday that it has launched an online radio service to capture the ears of a growing number of Internet audiophiles. EarthLink Radio, created in partnership with online radio-programming provider RadioCentral, aims to attract Internet users with content from standard radio stations across the United States and limited commercial interruptions, the companies said in a statement.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200...html?tag=cd_mh

Researchers light energy Web site
Researchers launched Tuesday a new Web site that illustrates the energy crisis in California in an effort to inform the public of the state's electricity shortage. The Department of Energy's Lawrence National Berkeley Laboratory said the Web site features a graph that illustrates in a real-time format the total demand and supply for electricity in California.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200...html?tag=ch_mh

Online music pumps up the volume
More than half of the world's young adult Web surfers have downloaded tunes, despite the legal dilemmas surrounding digital music, according to a study released Tuesday. International research firm Ipsos-Reid found that 61 percent of Internet users aged 18 to 24 in 30 countries had downloaded music from the Web by the end of 2000, compared with 53 percent a year earlier. Ipsos-Reid said the study, based on 7,688 Internet users worldwide, includes both free and paid music downloads.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200...html?tag=ch_mh

Toshiba advances display technology
Toshiba is applying its experience with liquid-crystal displays to create the next generation of screen technology known as organic light-emitting diode displays. One of the world's major manufacturers of LCDs, Toshiba announced on Wednesday its first prototype of a polymer OLED display that supports 260,000 colors. The 2.85-inch display is targeted for production in portable devices, such as cell phones and handheld computers, in April 2002. Earlier this year, the company unveiled a monochrome display of the same size. Larger displays for notebook PCs are also in Toshiba's plans.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200...html?tag=cd_mh

Pickin', Grinnin' and PCin'
The piece of equipment musicians can't live without these days isn't a killer amplifier, a vintage guitar or a slick mixing console. It's a personal computer. Increased processing power now means dozens of audio tracks can be recorded, sliced, and effected in real time. And this boost has made music software -- which has been around, in one form or another, since the mid-1980s -- required gear.
http://www.wired.com/news/mp3/0,1285,44074,00.html

Digital Rights Gain a Foothold
They know who you are. They know where you are. They know what you've done –- or could do, or what you're capable of doing. And they are the future of digital media on the Internet. "They" are Reciprocal and NetPD, two companies that teamed up on Tuesday to create a secure online delivery system for businesses that comes complete with its own tracking service.
http://www.wired.com/news/mp3/0,1285,44153,00.html

Napster seeks alliance with music publishers
As the fight over digital musical copyrights moves into a new stage, song-swap service Napster said it is looking for a new ally — music publishers. "I'm spending a lot of time thinking about publishing," Napster chief executive officer Hank Barry told Reuters. "We could get all the labels in the world on the service but we still couldn't do anything without the publishing rights," said Barry during a recent interview.
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/t...eks-allies.htm

Aimster In Court Today To Fend Off Music-Industry Suits
Lawyers for file-swapping network Aimster will ask a federal court in Albany, N.Y., today to put an end to a pair of copyright-infringement lawsuits filed by music-industry players late last week in Manhattan. George Carpinello, of the Albany office of the Boies, Schiller Law Firm, told Newsbytes that US District Judge Lawrence Kahn will hear arguments over Aimster's bid to keep the copyright litigation focused on lawsuits the file-sharing service launched itself last month in pre-emptive strikes against media companies.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/166250.html
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/166272.html

Worm tracks down child porn
An e-mail virus that seeks out images of child pornography on systems running Microsoft Windows and alerts government agencies to positive findings, has been released by hackers intent on cleaning up the Internet. The worm dubbed "NOPED", encrypted as Visual Basic Script (VBS) code, arrives as an attachment to an email entitled "FWD: Help us all to end illegal child porn now." Once executed, the virus searches all hard drives for JPEG files possessing names that indicate they may contain child pornography.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/579872.asp

Microsoft receives e-book patent
Three years ago, when Microsoft unveiled ClearType — software the company touted as a breakthrough in making type on a computer screen sharper and more readable — some observers cried foul. Former Apple programming consultant Steve Gibson, among others, charged that ClearType sounded a lot like a 1970s invention by Steve Wozniak for the Apple II computer. Despite the controversy, Microsoft has received its first major ClearType patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The software giant says the new technology will be key in its attempt to revolutionize electronic books — portable computer screens displaying pages of text.
http://www.techreview.com/magazine/j...nnovation1.asp

To be young, Chinese and Weiku
In Beijing, the tech-savvy young urbanites are known as the "Weiku generation." Weiku uses the Chinese characters for "great" and "extreme" to create a local version of the English slang phrase "way cool." It describes a generation of young, well-educated and relatively affluent Chinese hailing from broadly varied backgrounds. They have little self-concept of a shared identity, but are increasingly becoming a collective economic and social force to be reckoned with in China's cities. They also happen to represent the bulk of Chinese Internet users, and are uniting to co-opt the Web for their own purposes -- under the ruling Communist Party radar.
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/20...web/index.html

'Mouse-Trapping' Locks Web Users In A Virtual Maze
When you have visitors over, it's only natural to hope they'll stay awhile. But most people would consider it rude - if not threatening - if you locked the door when they tried to go. Yet that's exactly what a growing number of Web sites do to unsuspecting surfers, who enter a site only to discover that the Back button on their Web browsing software has been disabled to prevent them from turning around and leaving.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/166265.html

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walktalker The local newspaper man Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Montreal Posts: 2,036	IBM looks to Japan for Linux progress IBM is participating in two Japanese initiatives to improve Linux, projects that illustrate the peculiar nature of the development of the operating system. The first is a joint project among Big Blue and Japanese server leaders NEC, Fujitsu and Hitachi to improve Linux for big businesses. The second project, separate but with similar goals, is a new Japanese branch of the Open-Source Development Lab (OSDL), where programmers can test their software on expensive high-end systems. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200...html?tag=cd_mh EarthLink tunes in to online radio Internet service provider EarthLink said Wednesday that it has launched an online radio service to capture the ears of a growing number of Internet audiophiles. EarthLink Radio, created in partnership with online radio-programming provider RadioCentral, aims to attract Internet users with content from standard radio stations across the United States and limited commercial interruptions, the companies said in a statement. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200...html?tag=cd_mh Researchers light energy Web site Researchers launched Tuesday a new Web site that illustrates the energy crisis in California in an effort to inform the public of the state's electricity shortage. The Department of Energy's Lawrence National Berkeley Laboratory said the Web site features a graph that illustrates in a real-time format the total demand and supply for electricity in California. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200...html?tag=ch_mh Online music pumps up the volume More than half of the world's young adult Web surfers have downloaded tunes, despite the legal dilemmas surrounding digital music, according to a study released Tuesday. International research firm Ipsos-Reid found that 61 percent of Internet users aged 18 to 24 in 30 countries had downloaded music from the Web by the end of 2000, compared with 53 percent a year earlier. Ipsos-Reid said the study, based on 7,688 Internet users worldwide, includes both free and paid music downloads. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200...html?tag=ch_mh Toshiba advances display technology Toshiba is applying its experience with liquid-crystal displays to create the next generation of screen technology known as organic light-emitting diode displays. One of the world's major manufacturers of LCDs, Toshiba announced on Wednesday its first prototype of a polymer OLED display that supports 260,000 colors. The 2.85-inch display is targeted for production in portable devices, such as cell phones and handheld computers, in April 2002. Earlier this year, the company unveiled a monochrome display of the same size. Larger displays for notebook PCs are also in Toshiba's plans. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200...html?tag=cd_mh Pickin', Grinnin' and PCin' The piece of equipment musicians can't live without these days isn't a killer amplifier, a vintage guitar or a slick mixing console. It's a personal computer. Increased processing power now means dozens of audio tracks can be recorded, sliced, and effected in real time. And this boost has made music software -- which has been around, in one form or another, since the mid-1980s -- required gear. http://www.wired.com/news/mp3/0,1285,44074,00.html Digital Rights Gain a Foothold They know who you are. They know where you are. They know what you've done –- or could do, or what you're capable of doing. And they are the future of digital media on the Internet. "They" are Reciprocal and NetPD, two companies that teamed up on Tuesday to create a secure online delivery system for businesses that comes complete with its own tracking service. http://www.wired.com/news/mp3/0,1285,44153,00.html Napster seeks alliance with music publishers As the fight over digital musical copyrights moves into a new stage, song-swap service Napster said it is looking for a new ally — music publishers. "I'm spending a lot of time thinking about publishing," Napster chief executive officer Hank Barry told Reuters. "We could get all the labels in the world on the service but we still couldn't do anything without the publishing rights," said Barry during a recent interview. http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/t...eks-allies.htm Aimster In Court Today To Fend Off Music-Industry Suits Lawyers for file-swapping network Aimster will ask a federal court in Albany, N.Y., today to put an end to a pair of copyright-infringement lawsuits filed by music-industry players late last week in Manhattan. George Carpinello, of the Albany office of the Boies, Schiller Law Firm, told Newsbytes that US District Judge Lawrence Kahn will hear arguments over Aimster's bid to keep the copyright litigation focused on lawsuits the file-sharing service launched itself last month in pre-emptive strikes against media companies. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/166250.html http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/166272.html Worm tracks down child porn An e-mail virus that seeks out images of child pornography on systems running Microsoft Windows and alerts government agencies to positive findings, has been released by hackers intent on cleaning up the Internet. The worm dubbed "NOPED", encrypted as Visual Basic Script (VBS) code, arrives as an attachment to an email entitled "FWD: Help us all to end illegal child porn now." Once executed, the virus searches all hard drives for JPEG files possessing names that indicate they may contain child pornography. http://www.msnbc.com/news/579872.asp Microsoft receives e-book patent Three years ago, when Microsoft unveiled ClearType — software the company touted as a breakthrough in making type on a computer screen sharper and more readable — some observers cried foul. Former Apple programming consultant Steve Gibson, among others, charged that ClearType sounded a lot like a 1970s invention by Steve Wozniak for the Apple II computer. Despite the controversy, Microsoft has received its first major ClearType patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The software giant says the new technology will be key in its attempt to revolutionize electronic books — portable computer screens displaying pages of text. http://www.techreview.com/magazine/j...nnovation1.asp To be young, Chinese and Weiku In Beijing, the tech-savvy young urbanites are known as the "Weiku generation." Weiku uses the Chinese characters for "great" and "extreme" to create a local version of the English slang phrase "way cool." It describes a generation of young, well-educated and relatively affluent Chinese hailing from broadly varied backgrounds. They have little self-concept of a shared identity, but are increasingly becoming a collective economic and social force to be reckoned with in China's cities. They also happen to represent the bulk of Chinese Internet users, and are uniting to co-opt the Web for their own purposes -- under the ruling Communist Party radar. http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/20...web/index.html 'Mouse-Trapping' Locks Web Users In A Virtual Maze When you have visitors over, it's only natural to hope they'll stay awhile. But most people would consider it rude - if not threatening - if you locked the door when they tried to go. Yet that's exactly what a growing number of Web sites do to unsuspecting surfers, who enter a site only to discover that the Back button on their Web browsing software has been disabled to prevent them from turning around and leaving. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/166265.html More news later on