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The Register surmises that with Amazon.com’s updated corporate manifesto, consumers have no reason to expect any such thing as privacy while doing business on their Web site.

According to The Register, British Telecommunications is prepared to take legal action against ISPs in the US unless they cough up cash for using hyperlinks.

The Bloomberg News is reporting, the standard would be publicly available and open to improvement by other software developers, a general policy long advocated by IBM but, until now, not by Microsoft.

Alta Terra Ventures Corp. announced today that the MaxOS Linux operating system is now available for consumer purchase through the company’s online e-store at www.maxos.com, from Canadian NewsWire.

AMD today introduced the 750MHz AMD Duron processor, once again
setting the standard for business and home users in the value PC space, reports AMDZone.

This article from the International Free Computing Task Force answers the question “What is the Cygnus tree?”

PRNewswire announces the release of JBuilder 4, the only enterprise productivity environment that supports Enterprise Java Bean 1.1 compliant development on Windows, Linux, and Solaris platforms.

Linux Today article concerning making Qt available under the GPL and the affects on the free software community.

Seattle P-I.com reports that the Exodus
plant will consume enough power for a small town and eventually house Internet
servers for firms such as Avenue A, Microsoft and Onvia.com.

ZDCOUK.com reports that, while a recent patent infringement suit filed against 3Dfx has
heated things up a little and nVidia’s involvement in Microsoft’s
Xbox project is a definite coup, it’s the firm’s decision to go after
alternative markets that could well be the decisive blow.