Wired.com reports that bankrupt Scour Inc. says it will close its file-sharing exchange by Thursday as it prepares to sell its assets to the highest bidder. More from CNet.

The Register reports on Intel plans to offer 1GHz processors for some laptops by mid-2001.

Slashdot readers mull over an annoucement that “Spindletop is in the process of becoming the first (and only) GNU
Cooperative, supporting the hardware needs of end-users of free software such as
GNU/Linux.”

Reuters reports: “Internet music company MP3.com Inc. plans to restart the once-contentious My.MP3.com service by the end of
November and, for the first time, will charge a fee for the service, the company’s chief executive said Wednesday.

My.MP3.com, which allows users to store music and play it back using a computer, was shut down in May after a U.S. district
court held that a database of 80,000 albums copied by MP3.com — an integral part of the service — violated copyright law.” More from The Register.

From LinuxPR: CrossKeys Systems Limited has
announced the release of a Linux version of its CrossKeys Dyband
bandwidth management software.
Linux is attracting growing support from Internet Service Providers (ISPs) worldwide –
with about 10 percent of the Internet Service Providers in North America using
Linux as their servers’ operating system. More importantly, this percentage is estimated
to double to 20 percent by 2002.

BÃ¥rd Farstad has released his eZ phpdoc today. It is a tool for generating HTML class reference using JavaDoc-like syntax in PHP. (Example output). He also wrote this article about the tool and how you can use it at zez.org: about code. – Submitted by Paul K Egell-Johnsen

PRNewswire: “Sun Microsystems, Inc. today
announced the worldwide expansion of the Authorized Sun Education Center,
Academic Initiative, empowering universities and colleges to provide needed,
high-quality education on the Solaris(TM) Operating Environment, Java(TM)
technologies, and the StarOffice(TM) suite of office productivity software.
This special academic program is designed to help faculty and students at
postsecondary learning institutions teach the latest Sun(TM) technologies to
their students. This expansion will help power the international knowledge
community to fill the global shortage of skilled IT professionals.”

Universal Music, whose roster of musicians includes Sheryl Crow and U2,
Tuesday said it will give some of its artists half of the roughly $50m it won in a
copyright suit against online music company MP3.com. ZDCOUK reports.

CNET: Computer criminals “are not only clever in how they invade servers; they are also devious in how they disguise their attacks.”

Transmeta, under fire from some critics for chips seen as underpowered, hopes
to eradicate that complaint with its next-generation Crusoe 2.0, reports ZDCOUK.

After less than a year in the market, the startup chipmaker is already at work
on its next processor, with the aim of continuing to reduce power consumption
while pushing the envelope on performance.