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NewsScan | 2 Aug 2004 19:03

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"ABOVE THE FOLD"
        Pop-Up Company Agrees to Pipe Down
        Business Blogging Goes Mainstream
        VoIP -- Voyeurism Over Internet Protocol?
        DJs Ordered to Pay in Music Piracy Case
        Just a Minute -- My Brain Is Booting Up

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POP-UP COMPANY AGREES TO PIPE DOWN
      D Squared Solutions, a San Diego company founded by two college 
students, has settled with the Federal Trade Commission after agreeing to 
desist mass-mailing pop-up ads using the Messenger function enabled on many 
Windows operating systems. D Squared has also agreed to stop peddling 
software that would have blocked the very ads it was sending. The company's 
founders have not admitted any wrongdoing and face no penalties. Their 
lawyers claimed the pair were not trying to extort consumers with their ads 
and one attorney suggested that such ads are "annoyances you have to deal 
with in a free society." (AP 30 July 2004)
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20040731/D845EU300.html
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NewsScan | 3 Aug 2004 18:16

NewsScan Daily, 3 August 2004 ("Above The Fold")

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"ABOVE THE FOLD"
        IBM Turns Database Code Over to Open Source Group
        Small Businesses Suck Up HP's Lifeblood
        Yahoo Results Stay Close to Home
        Top Banking Sites Vulnerable: Researcher
        iTunes and Linux Make Sweet Music Together
        E-Books for Afghan Public Health Education

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IBM TURNS DATABASE CODE OVER TO OPEN SOURCE GROUP
      IBM announced it's giving the source code for Cloudscape, a database 
written in Java, to the Apache Software Foundation, an open source group 
that plans to rename the database Derby and make it available to software 
developers. The Apache group is best known as the steward of the Apache Web 
server, which is the software that powers most Web sites. Apache will hold 
the licensing and intellectual property rights to the Cloudscape code. 
Analysts say the move is geared toward boosting software applications 
development in the Java programming language while at the same time
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NewsScan | 4 Aug 2004 17:05

NewsScan Daily, 4 August 2004 ("Above The Fold")

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"ABOVE THE FOLD"
        HP to Ship Pre-Loaded Linux Laptops
        Cable Giants Seek to Dominate VoIP
        DVD-Copying Company Signs Off
        Singapore Airlines Introduces SMS Check-In
        Googling Oneself Is a Popular Pastime

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HP TO SHIP PRE-LOADED LINUX LAPTOPS
      In a sign that Linux is rapidly gaining traction in the 
desktop/laptop world, Hewlett-Packard announced plans to ship a business 
notebook computer with the Linux operating system pre-installed. The HP 
Compaq nx5000 will come loaded with Novell's SUSE Linux OS and prices will 
start at about $1,140 -- about $60 less than the basic model running 
Microsoft Windows XP. HP is touting its move as the first major PC maker to 
ship a Linux laptop, but California-based Tadpole Computer Inc. also 
markets a line of Linux notebooks. HP VP for Linux Martin Fink says the 
company's foray into Linux laptops will test whether "we can see the take 
up we get for this particular product." (AP 3 Aug 2004)
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NewsScan | 5 Aug 2004 17:06

NewsScan Daily, 5 August 2004 ("Above The Fold")

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"ABOVE THE FOLD"  
       FCC Moves to Protect Wireless Devices From Spam
       Network Vandals Face Prison Sentences
       Sony vs. Apple, Tra-La, Tra-La
       Hooked on Anime
       Come Along, Sing a Song, Join the Jamboree! M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E

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FCC MOVES TO PROTECT WIRELESS DEVICES FROM SPAM
     The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is issuing new rules
prohibiting marketers from sending commercial electronic messages to
wireless technology users who haven't given them explicit permission to do
so. The agency is also urging the industry to develop technologies to
prevent spam from overwhelming wireless devices the way it now bedevils the
Internet. FCC chairman Michael K. Powell says, "By prohibiting all
commercial messages to wireless phones and PDAs absent affirmative consent
from the consumer, Americans can now use their wireless devices freely,
without being bothered by unwanted and annoying messages." (Washington Post
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NewsScan | 6 Aug 2004 18:01

NewsScan Daily, 6 August 2004 ("Above The Fold")

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"ABOVE THE FOLD"  
       States to File-Sharing Companies: Watch Out
       Vietnam Sets Up Force to Police Net
       Approval for Touchscreen Voting System
       Vienna City to Get Choice of Linux Or Windows
       Indictment for Theft-by-Hacking
       Finland Dismissing 'Net-Addicted' Conscripts

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STATES TO FILE-SHARING COMPANIES: WATCH OUT
     Most of the country's state attorneys general have sent a warning
letter to seven companies that promote online file-sharing software such as
Kazaa and Morpheus, warning them that there could be legal consequences if
they don't adequately inform computer users about the potential risks of
using their software. The letter also urged the companies not to add
encryption features to their software to hide users' identity: "Encryption
only reinforces the perception that P2P technology is being used primarily
for illegal ends. Accordingly, we would ask you to refrain from making
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NewsScan | 9 Aug 2004 16:50

NewsScan Daily, 9 August 2004 ("Above The Fold")

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"ABOVE THE FOLD"  
       Declining Numbers of Computer Science Majors
       The 'Stickey' Web
       The Utility of High-Speed Access
       Apple Accused in France of Unfair Play
       World Wide Wonderland: Lewis Carroll Scrapbook

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DECLINING NUMBERS OF COMPUTER SCIENCE MAJORS
     The Computing Research Association says that the number of newly
declared computer science and computer engineering majors in the U.S. and
Canada fell last year 23% from the year before. The explanation is fairly
straightforward: since the dot-com bust a computer science degree no longer
seems the key to instant riches. But Peter Lee, an associate dean of
computer science at Carnegie Mellon University, is unworried by the falloff
in applications: he thinks today's students are often of higher quality,
because they're motivated not by money but by love of technology. (USA Today
8 Aug 2004)
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NewsScan | 10 Aug 2004 17:16

NewsScan Daily, 10 August 2004 ("Above The Fold")

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"ABOVE THE FOLD"
        Acacia Pressures Academia for Patent Payments
        Roxio Puts Its Money on Napster
        It's an Analog World, After All
        Companies Missing the Mark on Teen Marketing
        A Sick Trade

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ACACIA PRESSURES ACADEMIA FOR PATENT PAYMENTS
      Acacia Media Technologies, which last month suffered a setback in its 
efforts to force adult entertainment sites to make licensing payments for 
using its patented streaming video technology, has now turned its attention 
to higher education, whipping off dozens of letters to colleges claiming 
the schools' use of streaming video for purposes such as distance learning 
violates its patents. Acacia's digital media patents were acquired from 
Greenwich Information Technologies in 2001 and since then Acacia has 
secured dozens of licensing deals with companies, including Walt Disney. 
And while a handful of colleges and universities have agreed to pay up, 
most have resisted. The American Council on Education and the Electronic
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NewsScan | 11 Aug 2004 17:01

NewsScan Daily, 11 August 2004 ("Above The Fold")

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"ABOVE THE FOLD"  
       Windows on a Budget
       Google Sets IPO Auction Deadline
       Top Chinese Sites Launch Anti-Porn Measures
       DVD Software Company Yields to MPAA
       Gaming the System (All Systems)
       Technology Causing 'Frantic Life Syndrome'

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WINDOWS ON A BUDGET
     Microsoft has created less-expensive versions of its Windows XP
operating system to Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia, and is developing
similar programs in two other countries. The widespread interest in the
Linux operating system has helped focus Microsoft's attention on the need
for seriously competitive pricing strategies throughout the world. Deepak
Phatak, a professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, says that India
is exploring programs to distribute low-cost PCs using Linux but that it
could be tempted by lower new prices from Microsoft:
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NewsScan | 12 Aug 2004 17:55

NewsScan Daily, 12 August 2004 ("Above The Fold")

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        Sony Lets TV Viewers Take Control
        Search Engines Second Only to E-Mail in Internet Use
        Audit Identifies Top Adware Threat
        Most Passwords Are Easy To Guess

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SONY LETS TV VIEWERS TAKE CONTROL
      Sony is launching a new line of television sets featuring the 
company's Digital Reality Creation technology that enables viewers to 
manipulate the images broadcast to their screens -- tweaking the resolution 
as well as zooming in and panning around the picture. "Up to now, TV has 
been passive," says Tetsujiro Kondo, chief developer of the new technology. 
"We're introducing an active element -- like binoculars." The new line of 
TVs, which initially will be available only in Japan, marks Sony's latest 
attempt to make a comeback in its core TV business. Long a market leader 
with its high-quality Trinitron picture-tube sets, Sony has lagged in 
rolling out the popular flat-panel models. (Wall Street Journal 12 Aug 2004)
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NewsScan | 13 Aug 2004 17:02

NewsScan Daily, 13 August 2004 ("Above The Fold")

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"ABOVE THE FOLD"  
       Hacker Wants to Make iTunes Everybody's Tunes
       Teen Pleads Guilty Over Blaster
       Zambian Parliament Passes Tough Cybercrime Law
       They're Gone: HP Fires Three Execs
       IBM Surges Ahead

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HACKER WANTS TO MAKE iTUNES EVERYBODY'S TUNES
     Jon Lech Johansen, the Norwegian hacker who gained notoriety for
developing DVD encryption-cracking software, has created a software key that
unlocks the encryption Apple uses for its AirPort Express -- which lets
users broadcast digital music from Apple's online iTunes Music Store on a
stereo not plugged into a computer. Johansen, who posted the key on his Web
site (mockingly named "So Sue Me"), is an open source advocate critical of
Apple for using a proprietary system to ensure that its products work only
with each other. Apple has not yet reacted to this new intrusion. (AP/San
Jose Mercury News 12 Aug 2004)
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