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Saturday, October 05, 2002

Bill: Copyright Power to People. Another digital copyright bill debuts in Congress, this time seeking to expand consumer freedom to copy digital works for their own and others' not-for-profit use. Michael Grebb reports from Washington, D.C. [Wired News]
10:09:57 AM

All the World's an MIT Campus. Anyone can get a sneak peek at a top-flight college education on the Web for free now that MIT is posting a sample of its courseware online. By Kendra Mayfield. [Wired News]
10:07:34 AM

Law Documents in a Nutshell

Law Documents in a Nutshell
Posted by chrisd on Friday October 04, @11:58PM
from the we-don't-need-no-stinking-law-school dept.
Ramakrishnan M writes "LawMeme has a two part article (more to come) on reading and interpreting Legalese for geeks, titled "Law School in a nutshell". Here is the Part 1 and part 2"

[Slashdot]

10:03:04 AM

VC watch: Inxight grabs $22 million. The software company receives $22...Overture drums up $15 million...HyperRoll seals $12.5 million.

Inxight Software announced Monday that it raised a $22 million fourth round of funding, led by VantagePoint Venture Partners. New investor Reed Elsevier and previous investors Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein and Deutsche Bank contributed to the round. Inxight also announced that representatives from VantagePoint and Dresdner will join the company's board. Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Inxight has raised a total of $50 million. The company develops software that allows corporations to organize, analyze and deliver information from e-mail, Microsoft Office and other nondatabase sources. [CNET News.com]

9:55:18 AM

Yale Law: Revenge of the Blog. 11/22/02 in New Haven, CT. [Scripting News]
9:47:47 AM

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9:45:15 AM

Verizon, RIAA in copyright showdown. Attorneys for Verizon and the music industry spar in court over whether to disclose the identity of a Kazaa subscriber who allegedly shared copies of more than 600 recordings. [CNET News.com]
9:42:42 AM

Build inexpensive portals using open source Slash - Large companies can invest in expensive intranet portal software to provide one-stop information shopping for their employees. But until recently, the price of such implementations have made them prohibitive for small- to medium-size companies.

Now there's an open source solution called Slash that can make it more affordable to put company newsletters online. Slash makes an excellent news and portal engine, and you can download it for free at Slashcode.com. - Techrepublic
9:24:34 AM

Microsoft Releases Raft of New Patches - Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday issued a raft of new patches, including one for a vulnerability in a component of Windows that gives an attacker the ability to run any code of choice on remote systems.

The vulnerability lies in an ActiveX control found in the Windows HTML Help Facility. One of the functions exposed by the control contains a an unchecked buffer, which an attacker could exploit with a malicious Web page or HTML mail message. - Eweek

9:00:31 AM

IBM Virtual Linux to help plan road trips for travelers - Computerworld - By the end of the year, the longtime trip-planning bible, Mobil Travel Guide, will expand its offerings to over-the-road travelers with the help of IBM and Linux.

In an announcement today, the Park Ridge, Ill.-based publisher said that it's hired the IT giant to build and run a new "Mobil Companion" Web site that will allow customers to pay monthly fees to plan road trips online.

8:55:47 AM

InformationWeek > Content Management > Documentum To Acquire ERoom > October 3, 2002 - Documentum Inc. provided the most compelling evidence yet of the increasingly tight relationship between content management and collaboration Thursday when it said it will acquire collaboration vendor eRoom Technology Inc. in a deal valued at nearly $120 million. Documentum, whose stock tumbled 10.3% Thursday to $11.35, before the deal was announced, will issue 9.4 million shares of stock to eRoom shareholders and pay $12.6 million in cash.
8:44:23 AM