GlobeTechnology reports this quantum leap forward in the evolution of electronic books is taking place at a San Antonio, Tex., dental
school, of all places, where the faculty has dispensed with traditional paper textbooks.

Britain’s Guardian IT, the second largest data backup company in Europe, announced in a report at ZDNET that it has had record interim results and said it planned further acquisitions to challenge IBM for the number one slot.

“The belief making the rounds is that fund managers who are unwilling to invest
their clients’ hard-earned assets in technology stocks are nothing but backward-looking Luddites, raging
against the inevitable advance of scientific progress,” writes this GlobeTechnology columnist.

AustralianIT.com reports that an obscure dotcom has picked up the website contract for the 2002 Winter
Olympics in Salt Lake City, promising 100 per cent uptime for a site that is
expected to be the most trafficked Olympics site so far.

Yahoo has been eager to develop broadband’s audio and video content, which is to be
included in the company’s five business development goals. From AsiaBizTech.

Moshe Bar at byte.com writes, “One can safely assume that most
people run Linux after installing it
from one of the common distribution
CD-ROMs such as RedHat or
Caldera.”

Though the appeal of the
Microsoft’s antitrust case hangs in limbo, waiting
for the Supreme Court to decide whether it will
directly hear the case, reports MSNBC.com, little else surrounding the
company — its products, its people and the
industry over which it holds a monopoly — is
standing still.

A hacker can tell at just a single glance whether or not a
company’s computer network will be easy to break into — that’s the conclusion to be
drawn from a face-to-face interview in which Nikkei Communications magazine brought
together two real hackers familiar with the darker side of the Internet business. From AsiaBizTech.

“Partly in response to the recent post regarding the creation of eActivism.org, and partly because it’s been on my mind since the days of the original CDA, what follows is a memo meant to establish some sort of framework for using the Internet for petition efforts.” From the Technocrat.

A Slashdot reader writes: “NASM (The Netwide Assembler) is an open source assembler that can generate
code for many platforms/operating systems and is portable to many operating systems. There
have been debates in the past over the NASM licence to which NASM itself and all code
contributed to the NASM effort is licensed under.