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Monday, August 25, 2003

DVD-copying code loses free speech shield. The California Supreme Court rules that a Web publisher could be barred from posting DVD-cracking code online without infringing on his free speech rights. [CNET News.com]
5:21:46 PM

The BBC's digitally televised revolution. By digitizing its huge archive of programs and making some shows available free on the Net, the BBC hopes to help usher in a second, public-minded phase of the digital revolution. [CNET News.com]
5:20:31 PM

Hackers cut off SCO Web site. The SCO Group's Web site is blocked by a denial-of-service attack, as the company becomes caught in an increasingly acrimonious row with the open-source community. [CNET News.com]
5:17:44 PM

Sobig.F worm could have originated on Usenet. EasyNews Inc., a Phoenix-based provider of Usenet access, was served by the FBI with a subpoena relating to an account used to post the worm to Usenet. [Computerworld News]
5:15:42 PM

AOL launches blogging service. America Online launches a new feature called AOL Journals in an effort to piggyback on the grassroots popularity of Web logs, or "blogs." [CNET News.com]

AOL launched this today. It has been in testing for weeks. This will certainly bring change to the blogsphere.

2:12:27 PM

Sun Mad Hatter Linux Desktop Revealed

Sun Mad Hatter Linux Desktop Revealed

Posted by timothy on Sunday August 24, @05:56PM
from the this-is-not-your-father's-cde dept.
magellan writes "Sun has released screenshots of its upcoming Mad Hatter Linux desktop. Mad Hatter includes GNOME, StarOffice, Evolution, and Mozilla. Sun has made minor modifications to Gnome to make it more familiar to Windows users. Sun's Mad Hatter, along with SuSE's new push on the desktop, could make Linux on the corporate desktop and laptop a bigger reality."

[Slashdot]

2:01:14 PM

RSS Readers: Bringing the World to Your Desktop. Review: News readers used to be geeky and difficult to use, but this latest crop of RSS programs brings usability and modern interface techniques to the RSS world. [Extremetech]
1:47:37 PM

Macromedia Extends MX Line of Tools. The company Monday announced new versions of Dreamweaver MX, Flash MX, Fireworks MX, Macromedia Studio MX and a new product known as Macromedia Flash MX Professional 2004. [eWEEK Technology News]
1:31:48 PM