May 19, 2003

MCI wins Iraq gig The Register - MCI has won the gig to build Iraq's mobile phone network. The value of the contract is undisclosed. 12:14:37 PM

Napster reborn! Roxio buys PressPlay The Register - Roxio is to relaunch Napster, on the back of today's $39m cash and stock acquisition of PressPlay, the download music service, from Sony and Universal Music. The company is the proud owner of the Napster name and P2P file trading technology, acquired for $5m last November. But from the sound of it, there won't be much in the way of file trading, legal or otherwise: Roxio is to use the Napster brand, overseeing an "enhanced" PressPlay technology platform. 10:58:27 AM

China Web site operator sentenced for 'subversion' MSNBC -  A Chinese computer engineer was sentenced to five years in prison for subversion after politically sensitive articles were posted on his Web site, a court official said Monday. 10:30:46 AM

US arrests 130 in Net fraud crackdown The Register - More than 130 people were arrested and $17 million in assets seized in a US crackdown in Internet fraud announced last Friday. 10:09:51 AM

Sydney Morning Herald Saudis Link 4 in Bombing Plot to Qaeda Cell New York Times - Four suspects apparently linked to Al Qaeda have been arrested on suspicion of having advance knowledge of the three lethal bombings here last week, the Saudi interior minister said today, and three of the suicide bombers have been identified as members of a cell uncovered just days before the attacks. 8:51:38 AM

Rediff The Matrix Reloaded zooms ahead Rediff - The feverishly awaited thriller, The Matrix: Reloaded, made box office history this weekend for an R-rated movie, seizing $93.3 million during the three-day session and a mighty $135.8 million since its release late Wednesday night. 8:49:00 AM

Worm Poses as Microsoft Message PC World - A new mass mailing e-mail worm is spreading on the Internet, masking itself as a message from Microsoft's support organization. 8:45:05 AM

Microsoft to Buy Unix Technology From SCO Group Smart Money - Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) has agreed to buy rights to Unix technology from SCO Group Inc. (SCOX), a boost to SCO's controversial campaign to exact royalties for a predecessor to the Linux operating system, Monday's Wall Street Journal reported. 8:24:45 AM