Press release from Sun Microsystems about its participation in an industry forum that “will enable Sun to
help accelerate the promotion and adoption of the MPEG-4 standard, which is
designed to handle the transportation, synchronization, coding and rendering
of audiovisual multimedia content for Internet and wireless applications.”

PR News Wire is carrying Napster’s response to the US Government’s backing of the RIAA position in their ongoing lawsuit.

ICANN’s experiment in global democracy is drawing to a close, says a story at TechWeb.

The latest shuttle mission is up, and it marks the beginning of an ambitious marathon run to the space station over several missions.

Intel is subsidising RamBus technology for Pentium 4 equipped computers, potentially reducing the price by $100.

In a ZDNet interview, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer talks about how great Microsoft has been during its first 25 years, and why the company will be even more wonderful during the next 25.

See the ZDNet story.

This is the full text of the brief the MPAA filed in the RIAA vs. Napster suit. Not surprisingly, the MPAA is on the RIAA’s side.

NetBSD has been successfully ported to an RC3230 made by MIPS
Computer Systems, Inc.This workstation has been sold under house brand names by Bull. Olivetti, and other vendors. Read more at NetBSD News.

“TOKYO – Toshiba Corp. has introduced an 0.18-micron embedded
DRAM ASIC process that boasts logic-transistor performance
equal to a pure-logic process. At the same time, Toshiba said it has
managed to reduce by 20 percent the process steps normally
required to merge logic and DRAM processes.” Read the rest at EETimes.com.