ZDNet reports on continued bickering between Juno and NetZero, two providers which have been getting restraints against eachother for the passed year over ads on their respective web pages.

Privacy advocates are crying foul, proponents are saying fair, confusion and controversy reign supreme. It’s about a content-protection algorithm some companies want introduced to hard drives, flash memory and related storage systems, to protect copyrighted material. PC World has the story.

ZDNet reports that Hitachi is to introduce the first DVD-RAM camcorder.

Linux World reports on the progress of Linux in Poland and its use in places which are not generally thought of as Linux strongholds, such as the Hotel Jan III Sobieski, a four star hotel in Poland.

Wired.com reports on the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas: “Royal Electronics introduced a Linux-based PDA, called Linia that uses Intel
StrongARM processor. Like most PDAs, it uses a graphical interface and has the basic application suite,
including a personal information manager, calendar, notebook, and phone book. But unlike most handheld
devices, it will run many Linux applications. Its high refresh rate allows it to run many Linux graphical
applications with minimal code tweaking required.”

From BusinessWire: DataNaut, a provider of unified messaging solutions and custom application development services, today made available the Red Hat-based Poquito the industry’s
first unified messaging client for the Palm Pilot. This pre-release version is freeware for public usage and evaluation and is available by download.

From Internet Wire: Ten Thumbs Typing Tutor 2.2 has just been released by Runtime Revolution Ltd, with
new multi-user network capabilities and support for the Linux platform added to the existing support for Macintosh and Windows operating systems.

From ComputerWorld: Jabber, “a small instant messaging software company has gained a commercial foothold after signing a deal to provide the backbone of instant messaging for one of the Web’s top 10 sites.”

From PR Newswire: Oracle today announced that more
than 1.3 million members of Oracle’s developer program, Oracle Technology
Network (OTN), can register to receive a free CD of Oracle9i Application
Server on Linux.

At LWN.net: Conversay, a global leader in speech
technology solutions for both mobile and traditional Internet access
devices, announced it will provide the speech interface for the Linux-based
YOPY PDA system, making it the first Linux PDA to employ a speech
interface. G.Mate, from Seoul, South Korea, and CenterComm of San Diego,
Calif., developed the YOPY system.