From an essay at the New York Times: “There’s a war going on. It isn’t between ethnic groups, provinces, religions or nations. It is between nimble people who want to think for themselves and big dinosaurs of corporations that want to keep the upstarts penned up and docile.”

From a press release at PRnewswire: Linux service provider innominate AG announced on Thursday that it has recently received DM 16.2 million new capital from a number of new investors. The money is to be used for the expansion of the European branch network and the development of new Linux products. Furthermore, promotion of the brand name “innominate” which represents professional Linux services and products, is planned, stated innominate’s CEO Raphael Leiteritz. As a medium-term goal, the company is striving towards European market leadership in Linux service providing.

TechWeb reports, wireless platform vendor Broadbeam Corp. has reached an agreement with Palm Inc. to provide tools to develop secure bridges for accessing enterprise applications via the Palm VII device.

InfoWorld News reports, a cellular industry asked the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to suspend a requirement that cellular carriers install equiptment and software by September 2001 that would allow the government to easily eavesdrop on wireless data.

Claiming to offer the first complete, full-custom IC
design solution on Linux, Mentor Graphics Corp. has announced that its entire suite of IC Station products now supports Red Hat Linux version 6.0, from Planet IT.

Some of the nation’s largest corporations want to spend
$80 million on an advertising campaign to help ease consumers’ online-privacy fears, reports NewsFactor Network News.

CRN News reports, when it comes to the underground computer scene, there’s a lot more to be worried about than “script kiddies”–young people who follow cookbook instructions to attack a computer, security experts say.

ZDNet News UK reports, with the Digital Audio Player Jukebox, Creative Labs has certainly taken a new approach to MP3 players.

Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison and his former No. 2 man
Ray Lane exchanged coarse sound bites in a report today in The Wall
Street Journal.

Los Angeles – Calling them promoters of soul stealing the RIAA filed suit today against the mirror
manufacturing industry seeking damages of more than $12 billion. “These soul pirates must be
stopped,” said RIAA President and CEO Hilary Rosen, “The only purpose of their product is to steal
the soul of our musicians, only the RIAA has that right.”Full story at BBSpot.