]
] PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- A judge granted Verizon Wireless
] a permanent injunction against a Rhode Island man accused
] of sending millions of unsolicited text-message
] advertisements to cell phone customers in four states.

Yay.

Rhode Island Man Barred From Sending Junk Text Messages

]
] ICANN confirmed today that Judge A. Howard Matz of the
] U.S. District Court, Central District of California has
] issued an order dismissing VeriSign, Inc.'s anti-trust
] claims against ICANN, with prejudice. In dismissing
] VeriSign's anti-trust claims, Judge Matz noted that
] VeriSign had failed in its first amended complaint to
] sufficiently allege an anti-trust claim.

Yay!

VeriSign's Anti-Trust Claim Against ICANN Dismissed

] Federal and state law enforcement agencies have quietly
] arrested or charged dozens of people with crimes related
] to junk e-mail, identity theft and other online scams in
] recent weeks, according to several people involved in the
] actions.

It begins...

Dozens charged in spam, scam crackdown

] The US Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) has ruled, once
] again, that The University of Califonia's controversial
] '906' browser patent is invalid. The decision gives
] Microsoft the upper hand in its battle with university
] spin-off Eolas, the sole licensee of the patent.

I think this is probably great news. Maybe these IP pissants will force IBM, M$, etc to force reforms on the PTO!

Microsoft wins another Eolas web patent battle | The Register

] Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, Update 2 on IBM eServers has
] achieved Controlled Access Protection Profile compliance
] under The Common Criteria for Information Security
] Evaluation (CC), commonly referred to as CAPP/EAL3 .
] Today's CAPP/EAL3 achievement crosses the IBM eServer
] product line, with Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS on
] xSeries, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS on xSeries,
] iSeries, pSeries, zSeries as well as Opteron-based
] systems.

IBM/RHEL3 achieve CAPP/EAL3+

This pretty much sums up why I hate apple weenies.

Apple zombies attack RealNetworks

] The waves rip huge boulders from cliff faces and sweep
] them up to 50m inland in exposed areas such as Shetland,
] Orkney and the Western Isles.

Damn.

Huge waves eroding British coast

] "This is the first real carrier-grade open-source
] software implementation in the heart of the call path,"
] King said. "Motorola and others have traditionally used
] their own homegrown software, and it was so expensive it
] could only be targeted at top-tier carriers.

Motorola's building Linux-based cell-tower gear.

Motorola and HP in Linux tie-up

]
] Here is IBM's Redacted Memorandum in Support of Motion
] for Partial Summary Judgment On Breach of Contract
] Claims, filed by IBM on Friday. As you will see, they are
] going for the jugular now. Astoundingly, they say that
] all parties involved in the contract between AT&T and IBM
] have now provided testimony in discovery that IBM has the
] right to do whatever it wishes with its own code,
] contrary to SCO's claims, or as the memorandum puts it,
] they all provided "unequivocal testimony that the
] agreements were not intended and should not be understood
] to preclude IBM's use and disclosure of homegrown code
] and contemporaneous documents reflect this interpretation
] of the licenses".

U: SCOX closed down 0.08 (1.98%) at $3.97 today.

IBM Goes for the Jugular vs SCO -- GROKLAW

] The Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) has approved the first
] full version of its read-only disc specification, the
] organisation said this week.

Blu-ray is probably better technology than HD-DVD ... we'll see if this is yet another betamax or MD or atrac3 or ...

Blu-ray movie disc format unveild