The Newspaper Shop -- Wednesday edition

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Microsoft declares 'war on hostile code'
Can Microsoft beat the security bugs? That's the intent of a multi-pronged strategy that the software giant unveiled Tuesday at the RSA Data Security Conference. If successful, the strategy will allow users to have the customizability they crave, while eliminating the security holes that have been a chronic black eye, said representatives of the Redmond, Wash. company on Tuesday.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/ne...080982,00.html

Judge: Napster efforts 'disgraceful'
A federal judge was sharply critical Tuesday of Napster's attempts to block trades of copyrighted music, calling the company's existing filters "disgraceful." Presented with evidence from record companies and publishers that thousands of works ostensibly included in the file-swapping service's filters were still available, U.S. District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel said at a hearing in San Francisco that something needed to change.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/ne...080979,00.html

Chip-making machine to fuel next-gen computers
Chip makers such as Intel and AMD have long thrived under Moore's Law, the 1965 observation by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore that manufacturers keep doubling the power of transistors roughly every 18 months. Now some researchers are predicting that Moore's Law may run out of gas by around the year 2005.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/ne...706791,00.html

Forget about a Napster Armageddon
If you think the music industry has had its way in its battle against Los Angeles, i.e., the recording industry of America, then guess again. Consumers are not weeping into their Cheerios over the loss of free music. They are still listening to, downloading and even buying music.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/co...705945,00.html

Free the music
The music industry owes Napster a debt of thanks. The maverick pop-swapping service is largely responsible for the creation of the online music market; in just two years the company's user base has grown from zero to a staggering 64 million, giving rise to scores of other similar businesses.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/co...706790,00.html

Acquisitions spark return of DSL hell
Getting into the Internet via DSL—never a walk in the park—is poised to become an even greater struggle. Independent providers are losing ground to incumbent carriers, whose plans for—and commitment to—DSL remain unclear. What's worse, the poorer service is likely to be accompanied by higher prices as a result of decreased competition, industry insiders said.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/ne...705665,00.html

Intel's closing in on 2GHz
Intel will release a 1.7GHz Pentium 4 processor in a little over two weeks into a market that is awash in price cuts and discounts. The 1.7GHz Pentium 4, which will officially debut April 23, will appear in PCs from Dell Computer, among others, said sources. Additionally, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based chipmaker will release on Monday an 850MHz version of its budget Celeron processor.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/ne...080817,00.html

Linux gains corporate respectability
Has the Linux operating system, born in the computing underground, finally traded in its Birkenstocks for a pair of wing tips? Linux, the free operating system developed by Finland's Linus Torvalds, was organically grown by thousands of programmers around the globe and once seemed out of place in the orderly world of corporate computing.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/ne...705804,00.html

Open source to industry: It's payback time
The open-source community is planning to meet IBM, HP and others that are making fat profits from open-source software, and ask them to relinquish intellectual property in return. Leading open-source advocates will this summer meet some of the biggest software companies that have built up businesses on the back of open-source software, to negotiate terms for the companies to give something back to the community.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/ne...705612,00.html

Musicbank closes shop on sour note
Musicbank, a Net music company with ties to the five major recording companies, ceased operations Tuesday and dismissed its entire staff. "Against the landscape that the Internet’s in, it’s almost impossible to find funding," Musicbank spokeswoman Colleen Gallagher said. She said the company laid off about 40 staff members from its San Francisco headquarters.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1007-200...html?tag=mn_hd

If home is where the network is, who pays?
Ever since the Internet entered the popular culture, futurists and technophiles have been telling the world that the new medium would transform homes into information-rich hubs of activity. Refrigerators, they predicted, would someday monitor the expiration dates on milk cartons. The family room would double as a videoconferencing theater. The toaster and the microwave would engage in endless Socratic debate.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1004-201...html?tag=bt_pr

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