It’s been suspected for a while, but CNN is giving us numbers. Napster use has quadrupled in the passed few months.

Online retailer Amazon.com is being questioned for appearing to charge different prices to differnt customers. ComputerWorld tells us more.

NWFusion is reporting that the FBI’s carnivore email monitoring software is under further scrutiny from the government.

e-smith, a provider of Linux network server solutions for small and mid-sized businesses, announced the appointment of Steve Brand as senior vice president of marketing. The
press release is at LinuxPR.

IBM Monday unveiled software to build Unix clusters out of its RS/6000 S80 servers.

The Blue Hammer clusters make use of IBM’s Parallel System Support Programs (PSSP) to cluster up to 16 S80 Unix servers with a total of up to 384 processors. The software allows a single-control workstation to handle all administrative functions in the cluster. It also enables monitoring and control of hardware and enables scalability from two 12-way systems to 16 24-way systems. The followup

story is at CRN.com.

Plastic brick theme park Legoland has had its UK website defaced by a hacker who took advantage of an inadequately secured SQL server, reports VNUnet.

Over the long haul, it’s going to be a two-horse race in the Internet application development market. According to Gartner analysts, the thoroughbreds will be Microsoft Corp.’s forthcoming .Net platform and Sun Microsystems Inc.’s Java. The story is at TechWeb.

LinuxWorld gives the scoop on Descent 3 for Linux.

A new vendor in the network-attached storage market is bringing the open-source software market into the NAS space. VA Linux Systems Inc.’s 9205 system is sure to shake up the NAS market, which, according to International Data Corp., will become a $6.57 billion market by 2003, reported Information Week. (Disclosure: VA Linux owns NewsForge.)

Linux NetworX, Inc., a provider of large-scale clustered computer solutions for Internet, industry and research fields, announced today that Rockwell Science Center will be using Linux NetworX clustering technology for simulating aerodynamic fluid flow in the analysis of aerospace systems. Read the press release at LinuxPR.