From Internet Wire:
Advanced Systems
Concepts, Inc., a developer of strategic system software solutions that
enhance Windows 2000/NT, UNIX and OpenVMS systems, has announced the
availability of ActiveBatch version 3. ActiveBatch is an affordable Enterprise Job
Scheduling and Management system, which was designed for Windows 2000/NT
and supports the reliable execution of jobs and programs on multiple operating systems including various Unix
platforms as well as OpenVMS. The product can be downloaded from the Advanced Systems Concepts web site
at www.advsyscon.com.

Internet Wire has this press release: Merilus Technologies has introduced the first firewall on a PCI Card. FireCard is the
first use of the Transmeta Crusoe Microprocessor in an embedded application.
FireCard’s innovative design transforms any PC into a secure Internet computer
capable of withstanding digital security threats.

From the humor site Segfault: “After nearly 32 months of waiting, Netscape Communications has
released version 6 of its Netscape web browser. The release confirms earlier reports that Netscape 6,
does indeed, suck.”

From Internet Wire: Mailshell.com,
the free guide to thousands of free email/web services along with free
protection from junk email and spam, today unveiled the world’s first free,
single, simple, spam-free email address for life. Internet users can now simply type nojunk@mailshell.com in lieu of
their real email address whenever they want to submit or request information from any web site, thereby
eliminating the fear of unleashing waves of junk email in return.

Users can currently access this feature through Mailshell’s proxy server, and the company plans to make the
feature widely available through open-source code.

From LinuxPR: After 5 years of internal use, Turner
Consulting Group has open sourced its Web application server
software Steelblue, aCold Fusion-like language that many users have stated
is easier to use than PHP.
SteelBlue provides a true extension of HTML, automatic security enforcement
and special abilities granted to user groups. In addition, HTML generation, data
checking and resulting database interaction may be combined in a single
SteelBlue script and more. The source is available at www.steelblue.com.

OReillynet.com features Ian Clarke, founder of the peer-to-peer file trading service Freenet. “Freenet is much more than an anonymity
system: Clarke has built into it the seeds of a radically new
Internet.”

Wired.com reports that bankrupt Scour Inc. says it will close its file-sharing exchange by Thursday as it prepares to sell its assets to the highest bidder. More from CNet.

The Register reports on Intel plans to offer 1GHz processors for some laptops by mid-2001.

Slashdot readers mull over an annoucement that “Spindletop is in the process of becoming the first (and only) GNU
Cooperative, supporting the hardware needs of end-users of free software such as
GNU/Linux.”

Reuters reports: “Internet music company MP3.com Inc. plans to restart the once-contentious My.MP3.com service by the end of
November and, for the first time, will charge a fee for the service, the company’s chief executive said Wednesday.

My.MP3.com, which allows users to store music and play it back using a computer, was shut down in May after a U.S. district
court held that a database of 80,000 albums copied by MP3.com — an integral part of the service — violated copyright law.” More from The Register.