A BusinessWeek story says: New e-payments technology being developed by a startup could let the record labels collect each time a music file is shared.

Upside.com reports on the gaming company’s efforts to make a name among several competitors: “One Linux company, Indrema, is diving into the pool head-first. Staking its life on the belief that current software development and hardware trends sweeping the embedded systems market will continue to sweep their way into the realm of gaming consoles, the company has been showing off its L600 Entertainment system, essentially a Linux-driven set-top box with a 600 MHz processor and the potential for 100 Mbs worth of broadband connectivity. ”

KDE, a desktop for Linux/UNIX operating systems, was honored as Show Favorite in the Desktop category at the LinuxWorld Expo, held in San Jose, Calif., last week, according to a press release on BusinessWire.

Caldera Systems, a provider of Linux eBusiness Internet Solutions, reported revenue of $1.2 million for the three months ended July 31, 2000, a 9 percent increase over revenue of $1.1 million for the comparable three-month period of the previous fiscal year, according to a press release on BusinessWire.

From a Don Marti column at Linux Journal: “After making sure that all the SCO people around were otherwise occupied, I asked him (Linux freak to Linux freak) about his secret plans for his newly acquired SCO flock — which is now meeting quietly on a tree-lined college campus, like a pre-venture-capital Linux gathering.”

Caldera chief Ransom Love says his company will continue sales and support for SCO’s Unix products, ZDNet UK reports. More at InfoWorld.

From a Reuters story: “Popular song-swapping sites like Napster and Gnutella have come under attack by the record industry, but a new study suggests they could face a more insidious threat from their own users who take free music more often than they contribute any.”

There’s a new kid on the block. Startup Newtella has accounced that a new client based on the Gnutella protocol is in the works.
Using the motto “Freedom to share,” the software is in the final stages of development, MacCentral reports.

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and Transmeta Corp. are discussing various types of cooperation, including technology exchanges on a possible new very low-end consumer PC appliance, AMD president Hector Ruiz said in an interview on TechWeb.
AMD is also interested in Transmeta’s low-power processor technology, which could reduce power consumption of the Athlon and Duron processors, he added. ZDNet UK has more, including information on Transmeta’s future 1GHz chip.

An alleged “hacktivist” who may have defaced as many as 60 Web sites in the past week with a pro-Napster screed now warns that fellow hackers will unleash widespread cyberattacks if federal authorities attempt to collar any suspects. The hacker goes by the online handle “Pimpshiz” and has posted an e-mail alias on each site that has been defaced, APBnews reported.