Java World reports on new client-side technologies bringing Java apps out of the Web and onto the desktop.

Reuters on ZDNet: Apple Computer Inc. on Monday became the first company to license Amazon.com’s 1-Click technology, a coveted and controversial process that vastly simplifies online shopping.

After the merger, Cobalt, whose server appliances run on
Linux, will become the server appliance business unit of Sun’s
Network Service Provider organization, reports ZDNet.

255,000 Auckland telephone service subscribers are part of a brand-new reverse directory that a group of pHrEaKs are threatening to publish on the Internet. From a report at the New Zealand Herald.

The much maligned music industry is calling for crackers to vie for a chance at $10,000, to be split among those who are able to dismantle any of a number of new technologies designed to protect digital music. The editor of Linux Journal has called for a boycott of the contest, which he says is using contestants as a ‘free consulting service,’ according to a report at ZDNET.

Not only that, according to a story at NandoTimes.com, but the mega-portal is adding insult to injury and forging a partnership with Amazon rival Barnesandnoble.com.

The travel site’s new privacy policy lets consumers decide what will be done with the information they provide, reports Wired.com, unlike Amazon’s recent CYA move that treats sensitive information as a company asset.

Set-top boxes, thin client servers, and mobile devices are the targets that National Semiconductor has in mind with its new family of all in one chips. PCWorld.com has the story.

The Associated Press reports that MP3.com is finding friendlier fields in Europe’s part of the Internet, where it plans to open sites in German, French, and Spanish.

It’s not a surprise that politicians have a mind to create more regulations, and they’re looking to meddle with the Internet by setting up a federal privacy commission, according to Wired.com.