Gregg Doherty's Radio Weblog

Tuesday, September 09, 2003

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1.	RIAA: Child porn rife on P2P networks. The record industry appears to be expanding its fight against online piracy by encouraging a legislative crackdown on peer-to-peer networks, warning they are infested with child porn.
2.	Anti-spyware software targets Gator. Just days after a federal judge rules that software makers are within their rights to deliver ads over Web sites, a technology company is arming consumers with a way to stop them.
3.	Macromedia updates Web tools. The company releases the first major update to its MX line of Web development and design tools.
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4.	Advice for an Open Source Development Grant?
5.	RIAA Settles With 12-Year-Old Downloader
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6.	Congress looks to crack down on P-to-P child porn. WASHINGTON - Seven providers of peer-to-peer (P-to-P) services promised Tuesday to attack the problem of child pornography being traded on their networks as a U.S. Congress committee examined a report suggesting that thousands of child pornography files were available on P-to-P services.
7.	Ellison champions grid. Championing what he called the IT industry's first new architecture in 40 years, Oracle Chairman and CEO Larry Ellison at OracleWorld on Tuesday formally introduced the company's grid-enabled database and application server. ADVERTISEMENT: RFID/Smart Label Printing White Paper from Zebra - Learn about how smart labels help prevent asset loss, track shipments, and process customer transactions, and see how the technology could help your business.
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8.	RIAA plays the kiddie porn trump card against P2P music and movie file swappers - Record Industry due for a boycott by Kazaa users

11:08:10 PM

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1.	File-swap suits strike a nerve. The major record labels have filed a series of landmark lawsuits against 261 alleged music pirates. Now comes the hard part.
2.	RIAA settles with 12-year-old girl. One day after suing 261 alleged file swappers, the recording industry settles its case against a 12-year-old girl in exchange for $2,000.
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3.	WebSense Patents Censorware System

10:24:21 PM

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1.	Microsoft planning Media 9 for Mac
2.	Barnes & Noble shelves e-books. The bookseller discontinues sales of the downloadable books, according to a statement on the company's Web site.
3.	Foes of site-blocking law win a round. A legal challenge to a controversial Pennsylvania law forcing network providers to block possibly illegal Web sites wins an unexpected early victory.
4.	Intel CEO: Convergence still key to IT. The merging of the computing, communications and content industries will open doors for IT companies, Craig Barrett tells OracleWorld attendees.
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5.	RIAA keeps 12-year-old quiet with $2,000 bill. We showed her

10:12:37 PM

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1.	Oracle lays out its worldview. Against the muted backdrop of its acquisition battle for PeopleSoft, the database software maker talks up its tech agenda at this week's OracleWorld conference. The main theme: grid computing.
2.	TI bumps up its earnings estimates. The leading maker of chips for cell phones is the latest company to note that its financial picture is looking brighter.
3.	'Homeless hacker' surrenders. Facing two federal criminal charges of electronic breaking and entering, Adrian Lamo turns himself in at the U.S. courthouse in Sacramento, Calif.
4.	Yahoo: Would you pay to open up IM?. In an attempt to gauge demand for paid services on its Yahoo Messenger application, the company releases a survey hinting that paid, interoperable IM services could be on the way.
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5.	American Science: Addicted to Pentagon Cash?
6.	ESR to Shred SCO Claims?
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7.	McNealy says Sun to announce Orion pricing next week. SAN FRANCISCO - Sun Microsystems Inc. will use its SunNetwork conference next week to reveal long-awaited details of a new pricing scheme it plans to introduce for its server software products, the company's chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) said Tuesday.
8.	Cisco extends IP phone lineup. Desktop IP (Internet Protocol) phones inched closer to computing platforms on Tuesday with Cisco Systems Inc.'s announcement of a phone with a color touchscreen and the addition of XML (Extensible Markup Language) application support to two of its less expensive phones.
9.	Cognos launches Web-based BI system. Analytics and planning software vendor Cognos Inc. released Tuesday its new ReportNet system, a product company officials hope to position as a flagship offering. ADVERTISEMENT: EnterpriseSoftwareHQ: Management Software - Free software research at EnterpriseSoftware\|HQ, headquarters for buyers and sellers of enterprise software. Quickly investigate hundreds of today's top vendors, create a short list, and even send RFPs - all in a fraction of the usual time!
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10.	Sobig's success prompts calls for secure e-mail. Technology used to route e-mail from one user to another comes under fire
11.	'Homeless hacker' Lamo surrenders to feds. Celebrated hacker turns himself into federal marshalls

9:07:04 PM

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1.	Oracle lays out its worldview. Against the muted backdrop of its acquisition battle for PeopleSoft, the database software maker talks up its tech agenda at this week's OracleWorld conference. The main theme: grid computing.
2.	File-swap suits strike a nerve. The major record labels have filed a series of landmark lawsuits against 261 alleged music pirates. Now comes the hard part.
3.	'Homeless hacker' surrenders. Facing two federal criminal charges of electronic breaking and entering, Adrian Lamo turns himself in at the U.S. courthouse in Sacramento, Calif.
4.	China blocks spam servers. The country, a haven for spammers, wakes up to the problem and blocks 127 servers identified as the sources of high volumes of unsolicited e-mail.

8:27:21 PM

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1.	MRAM in 2004?
2.	Barnes and Noble Drops Ebooks
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3.	AMD releases Opteron 146, 846. Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) completed the rollout of a group of new Opteron chips Tuesday, adding the Opteron 146 and Opteron 846 to its lineup.
4.	Microsoft officially launches Office Online site. Microsoft Corp. launched Office Online, an updated version of its Tools on the Web site, on Tuesday.
5.	Bill Joy to leave Sun. After more than 20 years at Sun Microsystems Inc., cofounder and Chief Scientist Bill Joy is leaving the company, Sun announced Tuesday.
6.	MCI settles with key two creditors. NEW YORK - MCI and the two principal objectors to its reorganization plan have reached a settlement agreement, removing an obstacle that could have complicated MCI's quest for ratification of its plan for emerging from Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
7.	Oracle readying standard for grid data movement. San Francisco - Oracle plans to propose a standard for data movement in computing grids to the Global Grid Forum next month, an Oracle official said Tuesday at the OracleWorld conference here.
8.	IBM combines strained silicon, SOI for fast transistors. By combining two semiconductor manufacturing techniques, IBM Corp. will improve transistor performance by about 50 percent in the next three to five years, the company said Tuesday.
9.	Sobig's success prompts calls for secure e-mail. Even seasoned antivirus experts hadn't seen anything like the Sobig-F e-mail worm: Within hours of its release on Aug. 19, it created a million copies of itself and was spreading worldwide, shattering speed records set by earlier viruses.
10.	'Homeless hacker' Lamo surrenders to feds. Celebrated computer hacker Adrian Lamo surrendered Tuesday morning to U.S. Marshals at the federal courthouse in Sacramento, California, according to a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) spokeswoman.

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1.	Sun Microsystems' Co - Founder to Resign. SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- Bill Joy, a Sun Microsystems Inc. co-founder who was once dubbed the Thomas Edison of the Internet for his leading role in the creation of several major technologies, said Tuesday he is leaving the computer company to pursue other interests. By The Associated Press.
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2.	Commentary: What to do about Wi-Fi. Companies probably can't avoid wireless LAN installations, so they should get ahead of the problem with next-generation 802.11a and wireless switch gear that increases data speeds, hardens security and improves manageability.
3.	Microsoft updates Works. The software giant releases a new version of Works, its budget software package for consumers that's widely used by PC makers.
4.	Lab to boost Linux for Japan
5.	Counting down to VoIP. Net2Phone CEO Stephen Greenberg tells CNET News.com why it will take another 12 to 18 months before voice over IP technology really takes off.
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6.	The Return of Apollo?
7.	2003 Privacy and Human Rights Survey Released

3:07:42 PM

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1.	Microsoft Settles Antitrust Suit With Be Inc. for $23 Million. Microsoft will pay $23.3 million to Be Inc. to settle an antitrust lawsuit asserting that Microsoft negotiated deals with computer makers that cut out Be Inc.'s competing operating system. By The Associated Press.
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2.	Intel adds cell phone tech to device chip
3.	Documentum sets sights on publishers. The software maker announces a package of server tools designed to allow a business to automatically reformat content for a variety of publishing uses.
4.	Acer laptop hot to jot with digital pen. The company's new notebook PC runs on Microsoft's Windows XP Tablet PC operating system and allows consumers to write, file and store notes using digital pens.
5.	SAP to launch online developer network. The enterprise software maker says at its annual developer conference that it will launch an online network aimed at fostering collaboration between software developers and customers.
6.	Cometa revs up hot spot drive. The Wi-Fi network operator turns up the heat on hot spot installations with the announcement of 250 new locations as it hopes to attract more carriers and service providers.
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7.	Anniversary of the First Computer Bug
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8.	Free net learning attracts clicks. An experiment in sharing the knowledge of a leading technology institute online for free has been a global hit.

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1.	Will file traders face the music?. As details of the defendants emerge, casting some as parents of Kazaa-loving children or otherwise unwitting targets, some of the RIAA suits may turn out to be more complicated than they appear.
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2.	Blogger 'amazed' by success. The author of an online diary covering events in Iraq during the recent conflict is astounded by his popularity.
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3.	MS' Linux obsession - time to call in the shrinks. If you need to keep proving yourself, people wonder about the size of your...

1:07:33 PM

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1.	Oracle advances homeland security agenda. The database maker says that it is supplying the U.S. Department of Defense with software for a new national security system.
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2.	Co-founder Joy to leave Sun
3.	Berkeley Breathed Back in the Funnies
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4.	RealNetworks to be part of Sun's Mad Hatter bundle. Sun Microsystems Inc. will include RealNetworks Inc.'s RealPlayer media player in its forthcoming Mad Hatter Linux-based desktop package, it said Monday.
5.	Nokia forecasts slight profit. Despite strong consumer demand, third-quarter sales at Nokia Corp. are expected be flat or slightly lower compared to the same period last year due to the deprecation of the U.S. dollar's value, the company said Tuesday.
6.	Sliding-type Samsung GSM phone revealed. One of Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.'s newest GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) cellular telephones, as-yet unannounced by the South Korean company, has been revealed after it received regulatory approval in the U.S.
7.	NEC opens R&D center in China. NEC Corp.'s new China research and development center was officially opened on Monday, the company said in a statement.
8.	Long-haul 'fiber glut' persists. The "fiber glut" that has been widely blamed for a weak long-haul telecom equipment and services market still exists in most areas, but there are signs that more existing fiber needs to come online and demand might soar in the next few years.
9.	Oracle parades 10g beta customers. SAN FRANCISCO - Oracle Corp. trotted out a handful of customers at its OracleWorld show Monday who have been beta testing new versions of its database and application server software, which are supposed to make it easier to manage groups of connected servers.
10.	Forrester: Linux development can be more costly. Creating and maintaining a custom Web-based application with Java and Linux is almost 40 percent more expensive than using Microsoft Corp.'s software, a Microsoft-commissioned report from Forrester Research Inc. claims.
11.	Reuters, AOL connect IM networks. America Online Inc. (AOL) and Reuters Group PLC have reached a deal to connect their instant messaging (IM) services, offering Reuters users the ability to chat with both their financial services contacts and non-industry friends.
12.	MCI, creditors may have deal on bankruptcy. MCI appears to have reached an agreement with its creditors that could resolve one of the major hurdles the telecommunication company faces in emerging from bankruptcy, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) online edition Tuesday.
13.	Oracle preps Web services-ready dev tool. San Francisco- Oracle by the end of the year plans to release an upgrade of its JDeveloper tool for Java that backs the latest J2EE standard, which focuses on Web services.
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14.	Websites that crash. Like being booted out of a restaurant before finishing your meal
15.	Micro Warehouse flogs North American ops. Bargain basement

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1.	Loudeye hires ex-Microsoft exec
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2.	Windows Cheaper When Studied by MSFT Analysts
3.	RIAA Sues 12-Year Old Girl
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4.	'Bacterial battery' developed. A bacterium found in marine sediments may be the basis for a battery powered by sugar, researchers say.
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5.	The RIAA sees the face of evil, and it's a 12-year-old girl. Brianna busted
6.	Bill Joy leaves Sun. Edison turns out the lights
7.	UK Gov's response to child abuse - unique IDs for all. Enter, the Department of Toyland Security...
8.	A different kind of Mono culture. Back of the .NET

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1.	Co-founder Joy to leave Sun. The computer and software maker says that Bill Joy, its co-founder and chief scientist, will leave the company.
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2.	Virgin.net in charitable broadband giveaway. Nimble marketing
3.	Outsourcing: does it reward theft?. Opinion Turning a blind eye

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1.	Fighting the Idea That All the Internet Is Free. The music industry's campaign against online piracy attacks the idea that everything in cyberspace can be free. By Steve Lohr.
2.	New Telescope. NASA's $1.2 billion observatory took its first pictures of distant stars and galaxies last week. By The New York Times.
3.	Forensic Botanists Find the Lethal Weapon of a Killer Weed. Researchers say they have found spotted knapweed's deadly secret: a potent poison it releases through its roots to kill off neighboring plants. By Carol Kaesuk Yoon.
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4.	AMD bumps up Opteron chip. Chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices dishes out two new Opteron models for single and 4 or 8 processor servers.
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5.	SCO's Open Letter to Open Source Community
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6.	Nokia pumps up the handset volumes. But dollar is a drag

9:08:22 AM

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1.	Cometa beefs up hot spot drive. The Wi-Fi network operator turns up the heat on hot spot installations with the announcement of 250 new locations as it hopes to attract carrier and service provider customers.
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2.	NY Times hacker set to surrender. FreeLamo.com
3.	Scary WiFi TV launch by Sharp - spectrum congestion looms?. Bandwidth of Brothers

8:08:03 AM

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1.	Wi-Fi and 3G may come together. New wireless networking chips for handheld devices are giving second life to 802.11b and could test whether Wi-Fi and cellular data services can cooperate rather than compete.
2.	Technology and the limits of media ownership. CNET News.com's Declan McCullagh talks with FCC Commissioner Michael Powell about how new technologies are changing current assumptions about federal rules that govern the media.
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3.	Half-Life sequel ups the ante. The sequel to hugely popular Half-Life computer game is going to be worth the five-year wait, say its makers.
4.	'Bacterial battery' developed. A newly discovered bacterium may be the basis for a battery powered by sugar.
5.	Grandfather caught in music fight. A 71-year-old grandfather is among 261 people accused of illegal song-swapping by the US music industry.
6.	Baghdad blogger 'amazed' by success. The author of an online diary covering events in Iraq during the recent conflict is astounded by his popularity.
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7.	Business Objects, Cognos beef up reporting. On Tuesday Cognos will formally unveil ReportNet, a query and reporting engine that has been written to support Web services, Java, and XML. At the same time, Business Objects will unveil Version 6.1 of its Enterprise business intelligence suite of applications.
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8.	80 per cent of UK homes can now get ADSL. BT 'committed'

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1.	Apple sells 10m tunes on the net. Apple says it has sold more than 10 million songs on its iTunes Music Store since its launch four months ago.
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2.	IBM boffins boost chip performance by 65%. New techniques improve old processes
3.	SiS details Pentium M support. We got a licence and we're going to use it
4.	What do we want? System Developers! When do we want them? Now!. Contractors in demand
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5.	Judge Rules in Favor of Pop-Ups. A U.S. district court judge rules it's perfectly legal to display pop-up ads on another company's website. He says consumers approved them, and it's just another burden for Internet users to bear.
6.	Paper Trail Not Dead Yet. Though print media and paper use in offices are greatly declining, it won't be a paperless world anytime soon. However, a professor tells a Seybold audience, publishers still must adapt. Elisa Batista reports from San Francisco.
7.	Learning to Live With Biometrics. Public schools increasingly rely on fingerprint recognition to create cashless cafeterias and track overdue library books, but privacy advocates express concern. By Claudia Graziano.
8.	Congress Bets the Farm on Ethanol. The big August blackout has energized Congress to try to pass the first comprehensive energy bill in more than a decade. Experts say a finalized bill will increase ethanol demand, benefiting Midwest corn farmers. By John Gartner.
9.	Antispam Companies Raking It In. Not everyone is unhappy about the scourge of spam. Antispam software companies are seeing rising revenues and growing lines of investors. By Amit Asaravala.
10.	Grandiose Price for a Modest PC. A prototype of the best-selling computer of all time -- the Commodore 64 -- is about to go on the auction block. One expert says it's worth $10,000, but even Commodore fans think that price doesn't compute. By Leander Kahney.
11.	Fear May Not Spur CD Sales. The recording industry's latest batch of lawsuits may ignite fear among file traders. But whether it deters music swappers, or convinces them to buy more CDs, is another question, industry watchers say. By Joanna Glasner.

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1.	Apple sells 10 million tunes. Apple says it has sold more than ten million songs on its iTunes Music Store since its launch four months ago.

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1.	Australia To Fast-Track Anti-Spam Bill
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2.	MCI nears exit from bankruptcy. The firm once known as WorldCom has adjourned a court hearing as it inches towards a final settlement with its creditors.
3.	Free net learning attract clicks. An experiment in sharing the knowledge of a leading technology institute online for free has been a global hit.
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4.	PWLAN: hotspots finally heating up. Customers! We got customers!
5.	AMD unwraps faster Opteron 100, 800 CPUs. Just ahead of Opteron 200 series speed up

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1.	With Advances in Biopsies, Less Can Mean More. Biopsies of almost every organ have changed significantly. Many are now minimally invasive and the tissue extracted is becoming smaller. By Laurie Tarkan.
2.	At 79, a Pioneer of Heart Devices Is Not About to Quit Tinkering. Dr. Kurt Amplatz, an avid tennis player, is still inventing devices that simplify the repair of cardiac defects. By Jane E. Brody.
3.	Criticism Over the Fine Print of Calling Plans. Even as unlimited calling plans are gaining in popularity, few customers are aware of the hidden costs often associated with them. By Matt Richtel.
4.	Technology Briefing: Hardware. DELL AND HEWLETT TO SELL FLAT TV'S; FORECAST OF PC SHIPMENTS IS INCREASED; RF MICRO LIFTS REVENUE AND SALES FORECAST; RESEARCH IN MOTION RAISES FORECASTS; ABOVENET EMERGES FROM BANKRUPTCY;.
5.	Technology Briefing: Telecommunications. BROADCOM INTRODUCES WIRELESS CONNECTOR;.
6.	Technology Briefing: Software. ORACLE CHIEF'S PAY IS DISCLOSED;.
7.	Day in Court for Bid to End WorldCom's Bankruptcy. A trial is set to begin to decide whether WorldCom's reorganization plan is fair and feasible. The company could be reborn as MCI. By Barnaby J. Feder.
8.	With Politeness, Easing the Pain of E-Mail Mishaps. The recent torrent of e-mail messages unleashed by worms and viruses has revealed an ususually polite e-mail program. By Alan Krauss.
9.	Aiming at Pornography to Hit Music Piracy. The recording industry, struggling to curb music piracy, is shining the spotlight on Internet pornography. By Saul Hansell.
10.	Girls? Check. Cristal? Check. iPod? Check.. As Microsoft has been cast in the role of Goliath in the personal computing wars, Macintosh has been playing David. And right now the stone in its slingshot is music. By Neil Strauss.
11.	Reds and Yellows on the Screen and on the Trees. The Web keeps users up to date about fall foliage and offers help planning trips to see it. By Bob Tedeschi.
12.	Man Charged With Raping Girl He Met on Internet. A 20-year-old Long Island man was arraigned on charges of rape and sodomy after authorities said he formed an online relationship with the girl. By Lisa W. Foderaro.
13.	Lag of Data to Grid Operator May Be a Key to Blackout. An important element in the blackout may have been the inability of the consortium that manages the Midwest regional grid to respond to transmission line failures. By Matthew L. Wald.
14.	Publisher That Went Bust Is Hoping to Go Boom Again. Future Network USA flew high in the late 1990's and then imploded. But now a chastened Future is poised for another major growth spurt. By David Carr.
15.	Say Ahhh (and Watch the Monitor). Among the many technological innovations in dentistry is equipment that offers you a live view from inside your mouth, if youre sure you want to see. By Jessie Scanlon.
16.	PeopleSoft Raises Profit Estimate. PeopleSoft increased its estimate of 2004 profits before some costs to 90 to 95 cents a share. By Bloomberg News.
17.	Identity Theft Victimizes Millions, Costs Billions. About 3.3 million American consumers discovered within the last year that their personal information had been used to commit crimes. By Jennifer 8. Lee.
18.	Whipping Up Supper, Mouse in Hand. Many people have written off online groceries after a few spectacular failures, but a new crop of Web grocers flourish in a niche market. By Michelle Slatalla.
19.	Pitting Sadistic Nihilism Against Moral Verities. A "Star Wars" spinoff offers light sabers galore and Jedi knights aplenty. By Charles Herold.
20.	26,000-Hit Wonder Keeps It Hopping. An East Village bar contains a jukebox with the biggest selection of songs in the world. How? The music is encoded as MP3's. By Johanna Jainchill.
21.	Spelling It 'Dinsey,' Children on Web Got XXX. Prosecutors charged a Florida man with violating a new law that makes it illegal to use misleading Internet domain names to entice minors onto pornographic Web sites. By Benjamin Weiser.
22.	Universal to Cut Prices of Its CD's. Battered by online piracy, the world's largest record company said that it would cut prices on compact discs by as much as 30 percent. By Amy Harmon.
23.	Take-Two Profit Increases 60%. Take-Two's "Grand Theft Auto 3" and "Grand Theft Auto: Vice City," the two best-selling video games in the United States last year. By Bloomberg News.
24.	I.B.M. Promotes Power of Linux. I.B.M. Promotes.
25.	It's Tricky, Grafting Brando's Sneer to Bogart's Shrug. Researchers are trying to deconstruct the basis of what makes humans look human. By Eric A. Taub.
26.	Don't Expect a System to Behave Uniformly. Q. My Windows Me operating system rarely shuts down properly, and it freezes and crashes about once a week. I have heard that this problem is common with Me; should I upgrade to a different system?. By J. D. Biersdorfer.
27.	A Recorder at Ease in Every Format, With Software to Spare. With several different disc formats available and a seemingly endless parade of DVD-burning software programs clamoring for attention, adding a DVD recorder to your PC setup can seem more complicated than buying a car. One-stop shoppers may want to take note of the Memorex Dual Format DVD Recorder, which not only plays and records several DVD and CD formats but also includes $250 worth of Roxio software right in the box. By J.d. Biersdorfer.
28.	In Computer Security, a Bigger Reason to Squirm. Many computer networks, and the power grids and nuclear plants they control, are still ill equipped to ward off infections. By Brendan I. Koerner.
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29.	Quantum Cryptography Gets Nanotube Boost

3:07:45 AM

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1.	Reuters: Microsoft opens up video standard for review.
2.	CNet: Cisco to serve up color VoIP phone. Come on; it costs more than a computer!
3.	InfoWorld: Blade vendors to launch standards effort.

2:07:53 AM

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1.	Judge OKs Competitive Pop-Up Ads

1:07:32 AM

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1.	261 Lawsuits Filed on Internet Music Sharing. The recording industry filed 261 lawsuits against people who share copyrighted music over the Internet, in the first broad legal action targeted at ordinary users. By Amy Harmon.
2.	Treasury Policy an Issue in Case of an Accused Inside Trader. The outcome of an insider-trading case could depend on a jury's assessment of how hard the Treasury worked to assure that its press briefings remained confidential. By Jonathan Fuerbringer.
3.	Some Funds Allow Traders to Frequently Move Money. As the mutual fund industry scrambles to cope with investigations into improper trading of fund shares, some small fund companies say they are poised to gain business as a result. By Riva D. Atlas.
4.	Bank to Pay Back Hedge Fund Investors. By Bloomberg News. By Bloomberg News.
5.	Executives Can See Problems Beyond File-Sharing. The music business faces a much more complex array of problems facing the music business than just digital piracy. By Neil Strauss.
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6.	'Homeless hacker' found on Friendster. Adrian Lamo, whose self-confessed exploits include compromising computer systems owned by The New York Times and Yahoo, pops up on the Web's hottest new community network.
7.	IBM combo technique tweaks transistors. Researchers at Big Blue manage to combine strained silicon and a silicon insulator into the same wafer, a new approach that could lead to faster, more efficient chips in a few years.
8.	Cisco to serve up color VoIP phone. Cisco Systems' new 7970G is the first-ever Voice over Internet Protocol phone with both a color and touch screen interface.

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