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| - NTL
in Early Alliance Talks with AOL Time Warner
- State
Department site hacked, servers shut down
- Three's
company
- Microsoft Rivals Turn
Up Political Heat
- U.S.-China
cyberwar a dud, but trouble lingers
- Southwest
Airlines Sues Orbitz
- NTT DoCoMo
calls for 3G mobile service testers
- Southwest
Sues Orbitz
- Denial-of-service
warning put out by FBI cybercrime agency
- Aimster
Files Suit Against Recording Industry
- Caldera:
The world's biggest Linux company?
- Micron
sells off PC unit to turnaround firm
- Music
industry kept busy warning Web sites in 2000
- Napster,
Microsoft in Talks
- Aussie
Court Rules Against Smart Card Patent Challenge
- Pentagon
Says It Is Under Daily Computer Attack
- Intel
takes on Sun with telecom servers
- Asensio
& Co. Holds Press Conference to Scrutinize Department of Commerce Ruling on
VeriSign Domain Name Monopoly
- BlackBerry
Maker Hits Rival With Patent Suit
- Lawmaker
Wants Baby Bell Fines On Dereg Bill
- Torvalds
Blasts Microsoft's Mundie On Open Source
NTL
in Early Alliance Talks with AOL Time Warner
NTL, Britain's largest cable
operator, is in early stages of talks with AOL Time Warner about a potential European
partnership. NTL would provide the broadband network and AOL would contribute
the content. State
Department site hacked, servers shut down
State Department officials confirmed
today that a confidential Web site belonging to the department was hacked, prompting
some internal Internet servers to be shut down. Three's
company
Du Pont's Journey Leader program takes partnering to the extreme.
The $28.3 billion maker of Teflon and Lycra is working with three e-business consultancies
to help shape its Web strategy: iXL, MarchFirst and Proxicom. Microsoft
Rivals Turn Up Political Heat
Rivals of software giant Microsoft are turning
up the political heat, accusing the company of plotting to monopolize the Internet
through its new .Net strategy in the same way that it came to dominate desktops
through its software. U.S.-China
cyberwar a dud, but trouble lingers
Despite pronouncements from Chinese
hackers that they would attack U.S. Web sites, the predicted cyberwar appears
to have ended with a whimper. Southwest
Airlines Sues Orbitz
The carrier accuses the travel startup of trademark
infringement, false advertising and unfair competition. But it might boil down
to sour grapes. NTT
DoCoMo calls for 3G mobile service testers
Japanese cellular giant NTT
DoCoMo will this week put out a call for about 4,000 people to test its third-generation
(3G) wireless service, prior to a full launch in October. Southwest
Sues Orbitz
Southwest claims Orbitz has posted misleading information
about Southwest schedules and fares on the Orbitz Website. Denial-of-service
warning put out by FBI cybercrime agency
Following a denial-of-service
attack on the White House Web site, the National Infrastructure Protection Center
issued an advisory warning of attacks at various sites. Aimster
Files Suit Against Recording Industry
Aimster, maker of file-sharing software
that works with America Online's instant messenger, sued the Recording Industry
Association of America. Caldera:
The world's biggest Linux company?
While Red Hat would disagree and you
could argue for IBM, with its broad Linux support, Caldera's purchase of the Santa
Cruz Operation's (SCO) Server Software and Professional Services Divisions gives
it a combined Unix/Linux and reseller presence far greater than its pure Linux
play competitors Micron
sells off PC unit to turnaround firm
Micron Electronics announced a deal
to sell its unprofitable PC business to Gores Technology Group, a Los Angeles-based
company that tries to resuscitate struggling technology vendors. Music
industry kept busy warning Web sites in 2000
The Recording Industry Association
of America says it sent record numbers of warnings to Web site operators in 2000,
reminding them about its get-tough approach to illegal copying of music.
Napster,
Microsoft in Talks
With its user base dwindling, an inability to curry
favor with the major record labels, and an increasingly ambivalent sugar-daddy,
Napster has taken its case to software giant Microsoft. Aussie
Court Rules Against Smart Card Patent Challenge
The Australian Federal
Court has ruled against Catuity Inc. in its challenge against Welcome Real-Time,
saying Catuity infringed Welcome's patent on smart card technology for the operation
of customer loyalty and incentive schemes. Pentagon
Says It Is Under Daily Computer Attack
Last year, attackers pierced unclassified
Defense Department networks 215 times, up slightly from 1999, but classified systems
remained inviolate. Intel
takes on Sun with telecom servers
Intel, looking for new sources of revenue,
will challenge Sun Microsystems by launching a line of telecommunications servers
later this year. Asensio
& Co. Holds Press Conference to Scrutinize Department of Commerce Ruling on
VeriSign Domain Name Monopoly
Decision to Address Justice Department Antitrust
Concerns Over VeriSign-ICANN Deal Will Be Worthless Unless Strict Guidelines Are
Set for VeriSign's Control of Internet Addresses BlackBerry
Maker Hits Rival With Patent Suit
Research In Motion, the maker of the
BlackBerry e-mail pager, lashed out at one of its competitors Thursday, saying
it violates a U.S. patent recently granted to RIM. Lawmaker
Wants Baby Bell Fines On Dereg Bill
The author of a bill to beef up enforcement
authority against former Bell telephone companies that violate state and federal
competition laws said he intends to attach the measure to a controversial bill
that seeks to eliminate many of those laws. Torvalds
Blasts Microsoft's Mundie On Open Source
"Not worth the newspaper it's
been printed on," retorted Linus Torvalds, Linux developer, in response to the
charges made by Craig Mundie, Microsoft's sr. VP Back
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