IDG News Service reports on a study saying the Bluetooth wireless technology is expected to generate
worldwide revenue of just under $2 billion in
2001, and $333 billion by 2006.

The study’s by the U.K. branch of U.S.
market research firm Frost & Sullivan, and it predicts
that 4.2 million products using the Bluetooth
technology will be shipped by the end of the year.

An anonymous reader writes: “All Napster users not using the latest security-laden version of the program were cut off by the company today. Get ready for Pay Napster. More at MP3NewsWire.com.“

Saint writes: “This is a review of the FreePM medical practice management software from Free Practice Management, Inc. The software is now in the 1.0 beta 3 testing phase and will probably reach 1.0 general release status in the next few months. This is the first review of open source medical software that LinuxMedNews has done. That this review is possible is a milestone in and of itself as only recently has open source medical software come far enough for a useful review. What is even more astonishing however, is that FreePM has reached its current state of development in only 1.5 years. According to the company, it is ready for comparison to its closed-source competitors that cost far more. Should you be excited? Read on.”

Wired: “In a country of nearly 1 billion people, there are only about 2 million PCs. This could change with the “Simputer,” a Net-accessible computer that could cost about $200.”

LinuxPR: “Digital Spinner, a web design and
development company, announced today the fourth release candidate of
the GroupIT Engine (http://www.groupit.org), a PHP-based content
management and group collaboration system…”

The Register: “Corel has found itself in the black once again, with a small profit of $2.3 million (two
cents a share).

That’s rather better than the $23.6 million loss is posted this time last year and up on
the break-even figure of $534,000 it recorded for Q1 this year.”

Time.com: “Joel went out of town recently, which allowed me to duck into his
office and install spying software on his hard drive. You can buy
commercial spyware these days, but I used VNC, which can be
downloaded for free. VNC was designed to help people link their own
computers. But it also worked as a cheap and easy way for me to
keep tabs on Joel. Soon after loading VNC onto my computer, I was
rifling through Joel’s hard drive.”

CNET “Microsoft has decided to exclude Smart Tags–a technology that could alter the Web
surfing habits of millions of consumers–from the version of Windows XP that will ship later
this year.”

ZDNET: “An ambitious attempt by an international coalition of hackers to create a file-sharing
program that can defeat censorship has gone back to the drawing board, the project’s
leader said Wednesday.

Known as “Peekabooty”–and previously as Project X–the program could allow dissidents in
authoritarian countries to speak out online by hiding the identity of its users.”

LinuxSecurity: “The Bastille Linux development team today announced the release of Bastille Linux 1.2, a hardening script for
multiple Linux distributions. With this release, Bastille Linux delivers on the full promise of simplified, automated
security administration for Linux systems.”