PC Magazine columnist questioned the continuing validity of Moore’s law in his Aug. 25 column. IBM is mentioned heavily as the company most likely to break “the law” in the near future.

Slightly surreal Wired story ran Friday – about how domain names aren’t “property” and therefore can’t be stolen in the legal sense. However, fraud statutes may apply, so the case isn’t over yet.

ZDNet.co.uk discusses latest moves by Novell, lists new features in NetWare 6.0. Story mentions fact that this may be too little too late; that many firms have migrated from Novell to Windows NT and are unlikely to go back.

Wired story in “gee whiz” vein about new high-tech, ultra-wired communities that allow mere millionaires to live as electronified a life as Bill Gates and the other super-rich have for the past few years. (Doubts are raised in the story about whether all this is worthwhile.)

Series of articles debuts at Linux Journal about not rebuilding your kernel. Or rebooting. Good meat here for strong techies, but in language not-so-strong techies can follow (and learn from).

It seems that Compaq and other PDA makers can’t keep up with can’t keep up with demand because parts (especially LCD screens) are in short supply. (Story at ZDnet.co.uk.)

Slashdot story (links to NetCraft survey) describes the difference between stats showing active Web sites being served by various operating systems and server software packages and the typical total sites hosted numbers usually cited.

It’s over for popular (but money-losing) APBNews . Wired.com says SafetyTips.com withdrew from an agreement to buy the company for $950,000, so APBNews is now up for auction (although not on eBay – yet).

There was some noise and
more traditional press back in April about Intel releasing their Common Data Security Architecture as
open source in May. That initial open sourced code built only on Windows. But now Intel has released an update to CDSA that includes a Linux port. CDSA provides cryptographic and security services through a
unified API while still allowing custom modules to provide those services. CDSA is an Open Group standard that was created by many companies and is freely available. –Patrick Ryan

Does household income determine the amount of time Internet
users spend online? asks this TechWeb story. And it answers, Yes, and it also indicates site genre and content preference, said
Media Metrix Inc., a New York-based Web research firm.