Bill Bales would rather switch than fight.

The Napster co-founder’s second file-swapping start-up, AppleSoup, today said it will change its name
to “Flycode” following a complaint from Apple Computer.

The company received a cease-and-desist letter from Apple six weeks ago,
saying the name infringed its trademarks and demanding AppleSoup
discontinue the name and eventually hand the “applesoup.com” domain
name to the computer giant. The story is at CNet.

From a story at The Standard: “The announcement on Friday that the
federal government was joining the
defenders of copyright rather than the
“information wants to be free” crowd in the
Napster case was treated as just barely
news by the media. All the major outlets
and Net trades reported it, but in such
similar ways that they all could have run
AP copy and given their Net music
reporters Friday afternoon off.”

In an effort to bring the future of technology to your living room today, Nokia has announced the “Media
Terminal”, which will make your TV into a techno-geek’s wet dream. To add to the splendor, the whole
thing will be run on Linux using XFree86 and Mozilla. The update on an earlier story is at Maximum Linux.

eLink Business rolls out new product line. No more struggles with Windows, balky servers, routers, applications and third-party consulting firms piecing it all together. No more finger pointing. eLink Business introduces the Linxera family of ecommerce router/servers with integrated Linux-based software designed to provide a simple, inexpensive “out-of-the-box” solution for ecommerce and ebusiness needs. Read the press release at LinuxPR.

WireX, a developer of software for “purpose-specific” servers, commonly known as server appliances, today announced it is expanding into Taiwan and Mainland China with a new partner, TSC. WireX’s expansion into the international server appliance market demonstrates their commitment to provide Asia with affordable, easy-to-use server solutions. The press release is at LinuxPR.

LinuxForce.net announced its newest product, AdminForce Remote, which will provide significant administrative cost savings and operating efficiencies to a broad range of business, institutional, educational, and industrial computing systems, according to a
press release at LinuxPR.

From a letter at LWN.net: “You may have noticed a recent announcement by one of Lineo’s competitors
claiming they were the ‘first to deliver hard real-time Linux.’ We at Lineo take issue with this claim … ”

Leading the Linux gaming revolution is a Tustin, California company called Loki Entertainment Software, which converts (or “ports”) popular Windows games for play on Linux. Wired.com
features Loki.

There are two security problems in xpdf, the PDF file viewer.
The first is that temporary files were created insecurely.

The second problem is that xpdf was not cautious enough when the
user clicked on a URL. Xpdf would start the URL viewer (netscape
by default) via the system shell, not properly taking care of
shell meta characters. The advisory is at LWN.net.

Wasabi Systems, a Silicon Alley firm that develops UNIX-like operating systems, has landed $500,000 in first round funding. The round was led by a range of individual and institutional investors, reported @NewYork.