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 Saturday, May 31, 2003
Pattern develops in DMCA charges. A dumpster-diver gets hemmed into a piracy lawsuit after he posts discontinued sewing patterns on his Web site. [CNET News.com]
9:19:39 AM    

WiFi Alliance 'caught with their pants down' says silicon maker. First, I don't think LEAP can derail WPA; there's too much momentum behind standards. While CCX may not benefit hardware manufacturers, it benefits customers by giving them a migration path from LEAP to WPA. You can gradually replace LEAP-only Aironet cards with much cheaper LEAP/WPA cards, then when all the Aironet cards have been phased out you can replace the Aironet APs with cheaper WPA-enabled APs (probably with a or g instead of b, so that you get a speed boost at the same time). [Hack the Planet]
9:18:32 AM    

Salesforce recruits integration muscle. Major partnerships plug in hosted CRM [InfoWorld: Top News]
9:17:32 AM    

IBM looks to unify business integration package via Java. Consistent programming is sought [InfoWorld: Top News]
9:17:05 AM    

With Wireless, an English City Reaches Across Digital Divide. Wi-Fi, or wireless fidelity, is being used to provide Internet access to the economically downtrodden people of East Manchester. By Mark Landler. [New York Times: Technology]
9:16:24 AM    

U.K. Paper Recruits Iraqi Blogger. The Iraqi known as Salam Pax, who has capivated thousands of readers around the world with his online accounts of life in Iraq, will write a biweekly column for The Guardian in Britain. [Wired News]
9:15:41 AM