Yahoo: “AOL Time Warner Inc is remaking its pioneering Netscape
software business into an Internet media hub brimming with Time Warner artists and publications, aimed at office workers
and Web purists not already using AOL services.

“The browser is a crown jewel. However, six months from now, you won’t consider Netscape to be a
browser company,” Netscape President Jim Bankoff told Reuters in an interview, referring to its early role
in creating the first popular tool for surfing the Web.”

Grant Johnson writes: “It’s official, the pot is calling the kettle black. Check out this article from The Register. This is truly nuts. Gates is claiming that a group of cell phone guys got together, and created proprietary standards to shut MS out of the market, then they started using Sun products “just to hurt MS.”

Dan Sparks writes: “The Compaq Test Drive Program is pleased to announce the completion of a major upgrade to our Intel® Itanium Test Drive. We now have RedHat Linux for IA-64 running on the newly upgraded hardware of our Blazer system. Our Blazer now sports four C0 Intel® Itanium processors, all running at 800 MHz, and 4 GB of RAM. Check it out at http://www.testdrive.compaq.com.”

Yahoo: “While the performance of PC chips doubles every 18 months in accordance with Moore’s Law, the quality of computer
displays has been increasing by only about eight percent per year, Claude Leglise, VP of Intel’s Intel Capital division, said
Tuesday at a conference for the computer display industry.”

Wired: “For those suffering serious illness, Internet chatrooms can be a great source of comfort. But fakes abound, with some even suffering an illness of their own: Munchausen by Internet.”

2600: “The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) will ask a federal court on Wednesday to rule that Princeton University Professor Edward Felten and his research team have a First Amendment right to present their research on digital music access-control technologies at the USENIX Security Conference this August in Washington, DC, despite threats from the recording industry.”

AP on Yahoo: “Napster , the former music industry bad boy, said Tuesday it has struck a distribution deal with three major record labels that are launching a music subscription service this summer.”

LinuxSecurity: “The ispell program uses mktemp() to open temporary files – this makes it
vulnerable to symlink attacks.”

NetworkMagazine: “These days, the outlook for
enterprise networks with a mission
to safeguard corporate data is
getting brighter. Weapons such as
firewalls; VPNs; and increasingly
sophisticated authentication,
authorization, and encryption
techniques (and more resistant public and private
keys) are becoming more widely available to
organizations of all sizes.”

MSNBC tells us: “System lockups and slow performance may be par for
the course, if too many programs are configured to autostart
with Personal Firewall running on a Windows 98- or Me-based
system, says McAfee.”