See the ZDNet story.

This is the full text of the brief the MPAA filed in the RIAA vs. Napster suit. Not surprisingly, the MPAA is on the RIAA’s side.

NetBSD has been successfully ported to an RC3230 made by MIPS
Computer Systems, Inc.This workstation has been sold under house brand names by Bull. Olivetti, and other vendors. Read more at NetBSD News.

“TOKYO – Toshiba Corp. has introduced an 0.18-micron embedded
DRAM ASIC process that boasts logic-transistor performance
equal to a pure-logic process. At the same time, Toshiba said it has
managed to reduce by 20 percent the process steps normally
required to merge logic and DRAM processes.” Read the rest at EETimes.com.

These are the “next wave” rechargable batteries for cell phones and other portable electronics. Unlike lithium ion batteries, they don’t need metal cases. More at EETimes.com.

Cnet has the (brief) story.

“With only a few weeks left in this Congress, lawmakers still haven’t
passed major Internet-related bills. In this exclusive special report,
Business2.com offers assessments on five key bills–their chances
of passing, as well as obstacles in their way,”

Funny column — with a lot of truth to it — from the Austin (TX) American-Statesman’s Web site.

“The Java hardware market appears to be shaking off the doldrums, as numerous new
hardware players prepare to test the waters.” EETimes story.

The Register says, “Copyleft’s sin, it appears, was to sell a shirt printed with the source code to DeCSS,
the controversial utility that cracks DVD movies’ copy protection system.”