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.

These are the “next wave” rechargable batteries for cell phones and other portable electronics. Unlike lithium ion batteries, they don’t need metal cases. More at EETimes.com.

Cnet has the (brief) story.