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Napster crawls through the loopholes More than two weeks have passed since U.S. District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel issued her modified ruling on the injunction in the RIAA v. Napster lawsuit. Patel's re-write came as a bit of a surprise to some, considering it's leniency. Enter Aimster, Pig Latin, alternate spellings and a handful of other encoders and schemes, and it appears that Judge Patel's order has not only had little effect on Napster's operations, but may have created a monster. http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/co...700952,00.html Napster leads march on Washington Napster is bringing its message of sharing to Washington, D.C., scheduling a 1960s-like "teach-in" and free concert next month to accompany a planned congressional hearing on online copyright issues. http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/ne...701326,00.html Is TiVo watching you? You're watching TV, but is someone watching you? On Monday, the Privacy Foundation released a report accusing digital video recording company TiVo of misleading subscribers. The Denver-based nonprofit group claims that TiVo's service can gather more information about its subscribers' viewing habits than the company is letting on. http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/ne...080167,00.html Hackers claim DoubleClick security holes Data-collection company DoubleClick returned to the privacy spotlight on Monday after a French Web site uncovered evidence indicating several of the company's servers had security holes and may have been breached. http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/ne...080159,00.html No surprise: PC demand to remain weak The bad news for the PC industry keeps rolling in. Market researcher Dataquest on Monday warned of continued slow PC sales, with worldwide sales growing 10.7 percent this year, or about four points lower than 2000. Sales in the United States are projected to be downright dismal with--at best--flat year-over-year growth. http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/ne...080119,00.html Strategic confusion, internal politics lead to failures online In the summer of 1998, Walt Disney Chief Executive Michael Eisner visited the headquarters of Infoseek bearing the promises of a savior: The search engine would become the heart of the Go Network, promoted on ABC, ESPN, videotapes, movie trailers, theme parks--everything Mickey's white glove touches. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-201...html?tag=tp_pr Scour Exchange back in legal revival The reincarnation of Scour Exchange, the file-swapping program that once rivaled Napster in popularity before facing a lawsuit for alleged copyright infringement and going bankrupt, is back online. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200...html?tag=mn_hd Singing hosannas for Linux The co-author of IBM's first strategy papers on both Linux and open source made a persuasive case, ultimately convincing CEO Lou Gerstner to put this on the company's strategy agenda. Indeed, Gerstner last November announced IBM's intention to invest $1 billion on Linux in 2001. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1014-201...html?tag=bt_pr Oracle builds "digital hospital" Hospital and rehabilitation chain HealthSouth and software maker Oracle are teaming up to build a "digital hospital" intended to improve patient care and eliminate maddening paperwork, company executives said Monday. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1007-200...html?tag=cd_mh Up for sale: Privacy on the Net If you are reading this article about privacy, you most likely use the Internet to gather information about topics that interest you. You may also go online to e-mail your friends, look for a new job, check out your investment portfolio and/or shop for such items as books, clothes, plane tickets and pharmaceutical products. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-201...html?tag=ch_mh Bluetooth demonstration flops It was meant to be a crowning moment for a long-promised technology designed to create a wireless link among devices around the home or office. But instead, the Bluetooth demonstration at the world's biggest computer and electronics show turned into an embarrassing flop when 100 transmitters equipped with the short-range radio technology failed to transform a convention hall into a wireless data network for visitors with handheld computers. Ouch ! http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200...html?tag=cd_mh Library Card Catalog, R.I.P. Browsing through the shelves is one of the great joys of visiting the library. But when the shelves get too tall and threaten to take away precious study space, books are relegated to warehouses, sold, given away, or worse -- retired to the circular file. http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,41905,00.html Anti-Spam Bill's Second Wind House negotiators are meeting privately in an attempt to work out differences over an anti-spam bill before a scheduled vote on Wednesday. The House Commerce committee markup will start the "Unsolicited Commercial Electronic Mail Act" down the same uncertain path it trod last year, when House legislators approved it 427-1 but the Senate never voted. http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,42630,00.html Should Science Research Be Free? Should all research papers in the biosciences be placed in one, free-access, web library? Yes, say 12,000 scientists. A row has broken out over whether all scientific papers in the biosciences should be placed in a single web library and made available free of charge to everyone. http://www.newscientist.com/dailynew...p?id=ns9999552 CIA: Making Sense of the Deluge of Data Every day, a digital monsoon engulfs the Central Intelligence Agency. Video and audio signals pour in from around the world as a million new pages pop up on the Internet. What's an intelligence agency to do about this "volume challenge of staggering proportion," as one CIA official called it? http://www.washtech.com/news/govtit/8548-1.html Life gets serious for Linux Linux, the free computer operating system loved and tended by the T-shirt and beard geek community on the internet, has cast off its scruffy image and donned a corporate suit. From IBM to Nokia, from Sap to Sharp, the giants of the CeBIT technology fair in Hanover are all showing products based on the system which began life as a Finnish student's hobby. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/bus...00/1240626.stm Sex, Drugs and Electronica There's the usual array of panels, exhibits and lectures. But the real business of the Winter Music Conference -- the country's biggest, baddest electronic music gathering -- is to get down. "I've been going for five years, and I've never once gone to a single panel," laughs Bruno Ybarra, from the San Francisco "sexy urban dance music" label Naked Music. "This is definitely play before work." http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,42628,00.html Cheap Magnets Equal Cheap MRI Often the response to the bill from a hospital can be more traumatic than the visit itself. For those with post-bill trauma, a ray of light may be on the horizon in the form of a new magnetic resonance imaging scanner. http://www.wired.com/news/technology...,42583,00.html Fewer Using Napster The number of Napster users has fallen by 25 percent since the music-swapping Web site began filtering out copyrighted songs, according to the survey firm Webnoize. But Napster Inc. says there has been no decline in users, even as the service has blocked more than 225,000 songs, accounting for about half the files available for sharing. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/163675.html Just saving all this on the forum |
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