Song-swap company Napster, embroiled in a landmark
copyright lawsuit against the recording industry, on Thursday
distanced itself from a federal judge’s strong ruling against
MP3.com. From ZDCOUK.com.

ZDNet reports that MontaVista Software has taken the wraps off what it
calls a “hard real-time fully preemptable Linux kernel
prototype,” based on Linux kernel 2.4.

Newsbytes News reports that Safetytips.com on Thursday purchased the assets of bankrupt APBnews.com
for $575,000 and plans to revive the crime and justice news site.

Federal Computer Week reports that the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded an $11 million grant to Network Associates Inc. to develop new technologies for information system security.

Reuters reports that the new Linux-based product, which combines Internet media and digital broadcasting
technologies giving access to entertainment on the Internet through any home display
device, would be available in the second quarter of 2001, Nokia said.

Despite an
ongoing copyright infringement tussle with Universal Music Group and the recording industry,
MP3.com announced it will reactivate its embattled online music service, according to a report from The Nando Times.

Hitachi plans to gradually support the Linux OS on the MP mainframe series, the IA-64
server, the HITACHI 9000V UNIX servers, the HA8000 PC servers, the FLORA PC series
and mobile products. In addition to these hardware platforms, the company will make its
middleware software products ready for Linux OS. From AsiaBizTech.com.

Mr. Kartik Prabhakara wants to “talk” to the deaf. He has written a program that helps one communicate with the hearing-impaired: key in a word and a
pair of virtual hands displays the sign-language equivalent on a computer. From The Straits Times.

It hasn’t escalated to the level of a
Celebrity Deathmatch yet, but two of the
Internet’s most downloaded women are sparring
over who’s really the cyber-fairest of them all. From ABCNEWS.com.

“I think the QNX RTOS is the future of the desktop OS. It makes hardware driver installation as easy as could be, and most of all it’s responsive – nobody (especially the average user) likes to see his machine grind to a halt as they load up some gargantuan web browser with more bugs than features.”–Kelly McNeill at OSOpinion.com.