] The U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) will keep two
] upcoming IT projects off limits to computer services
] provider Computer Sciences Corp. (CSC) because it has
] been dissatisfied with the vendor's performance in an
] ongoing IT modernization effort at the tax collection
] agency, IRS Commissioner Mark Everson said Thursday.

This is probably good news. CSC's credentials seem to be that it is a well-connected government contractor, not that it has any particular technology competence. As I've wondered before: how is CSC more qualified to do IT for the IRS than IBM or Oracle??

IRS commisioner bars CSC from upcoming projects

]
] The world's largest software maker alerted the public on
] Thursday that parts of its valuable source code for its
] Windows NT and Windows 2000 operating systems had been
] leaked to various online file-sharing networks.

!!!

Net file-swappers snap up Windows source code

] A 19-year-old college student who had shown no outward
] signs of depression killed herself over the weekend at an
] Eli Lilly & Company laboratory in Indianapolis where she
] had been participating in a company drug trial for an
] experimental antidepressant.

Yikes!

Student, 19, in Trial of New Antidepressant Commits Suicide

] WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 — The Federal Communications Commission began
] writing new rules today that officials and industry experts said
] would profoundly alter both the way the Internet is delivered and
] used in homes and businesses.

This might actually be not bad news...

F.C.C. Begins Rewriting Rules on Delivery of the Internet

]
] Microsoft, has lost the first round of its legal battle
] over its ownership of the word 'windows'. It was a key
] point in its trademark battle with the Linux distributor
] Lindows.

!!!

Microsoft doesn't own the word 'windows' judge rules

] On Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission is set
] to consider approving a notice of proposed rulemaking,
] the first step in a lengthy process of writing
] regulations for Internet-based phone services. The
] commission is also set to issue a final decision on a
] petition by one of the new Internet phone companies,
] Pulver.com, which has asked the commission to rule that
] it does not need to pay interconnection access fees to
] phone companies for any calls made and received between
] computers through Internet connections.

What a mess! I'm sure we can count on the FCC to screw this one up too, just like everything else they touch...

Thorny Issues Await F.C.C. on Internet Phones

] If big pharma price-discriminates rationally, it
] guarantees the following query from some representative
] in some committee hearing: "How come a hospital in Lagos
] spends $1 for this pill, but the local Catholic hospital
] in my district must pay $5,000?" And, of course, in the
] Inquisition that is congressional testimony, there is no
] effective way to answer such a question.

Wired 12.02: Lessig says access to drugs in the third world not an IP issue

]
] Despite these representations, however, SCO in
] fact failed to comply with the Court's order in numerous
] respects [1] the most important of which are addressed
] below.

IBM is going to drive SCO into the ground so hard it isn't going to be funny...

IBM Report on SCO 'Compliance'

] NASA declared its Spirit rover cured Friday of the
] computer problems that had stalled it on Mars for more
] than two weeks, ending a crisis that had threatened its
] half of a double mission to seek evidence the planet once
] was wetter and hospitable to life.

NASA declares Mars Spirit rover 'healed' after memory repairs

]
] The big info is this: SCO has apparently dropped its
] trade secret claims against IBM and as for the copyright
] claim, it is melting. So far, according to IBM, SCO has
] shown not one line of "infringing code" and SCO, he said,
] "repeats their theory" that IBM put AIX code into Linux,
] and identified only 17 files and identified a few lines
] in those files.

SCO is about to hit the wall!

SCO Drops Trade Secret Claim and Shows No 'Infringing' Linux Code So Far: Eyewitness Account