Wired News: Europe Has the Hot Hand
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And we'll use it to give the finger to other continents xD

Linux hackers: the L in Linksys’s WRT54GL is for “Linux” - Engadget - www.engadget.com
Linksys saw that they have something in that ever popular WRT54G of theirs (apparently they sell hundreds of thousands per month, which we totally believe), and after changing up their hardware in the their series 5 WRT54G, they’ve decided to continue making the Linux-friendly series 4 under the WRT54GL badge.
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here's a product with big sales thanks to Linux.

David Byrne gets RIAA warning David Byrne -- ex-Talking Head and odd music impressario -- has been targetted by the RIAA for streaming a radio station that played too much Missy Elliot
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LOL! Even music artists have to face the wrath of RIAA.

Will Sonys PS3 be the last nail in the HD-DVD coffin? - CD Freaks.com Consumers accustomed to the current generation DVD format will most likely begin the switch to Blu-ray or HD DVD in 2008
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I hardly doubt on this '2008' number. The reason: Once you've seen some movies on HDTV you can spit on regular DVDs. I am already prepared in 2005 to spend my money on High Definition.

Macrovision wants DVD Decrypter pulled from servers
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LOL! that was funny. Thanks Macrovision, now keep working on the next useless CD protection :)

Xbox 360: shortages no joke: "There were plenty of parents at Best Buy, a notable contrast to Circuit City. [...] The parents were leaving the store with sad looks on their faces. This is because one employee actually said that they do not expect to receive another major shipment of Xbox 360s until February of 2006."
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Here's the great launch of Xbox 360: available on stores when PS3 is out. lol!

Music Selling Delimma: iTunes This is real: I produced my CD back in 1999 and signed-up to sell my product online at CDNOW.com. Amazon bought CDNOW and life went on. I now see that my CD is listed at iTunes. And we won’t get one red cent!?
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so, iTunes sells his songs and he doesn't get anything.

Sony Patents Anti-Rental Tech (for Blu-Ray and PS3)The patent describes a process by which every media disc is shipped with a unique registration key. The first time the media disc is inserted into a player, that key is read and the disc is registered by the player, then the original key on the disc is rendered unreadable. Any attempt to play a registered disc in another player will fail.
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everyday we see more attempts to aleniate users from Blu-Ray, I wonder how we, users, will react to this when Blu-Ray is on sale.

� Broadband states all vote Democrat, dial-up states vote Republican | IT Facts | ZDNet.com

Music exec: quit whining and dump Mac, Linux | The Register Mac owners and anyone who runs the Linux operating system should quit whining about DRM and copy-protection technologies that are incompatible with their systems and "consider purchasing a regular CD player".
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When this 'music exec' complains about piracy I'll say to him "quit whining and go to work"

Wired News: My IPod for a Random Playlist: "if there are 23 randomly selected people in a room, there is a better than 50-50 chance that at least two of them will have the same birthday. The point: Mathematical randomness often contradicts our intuitive expectations of randomness."

More on RIAA admitting bootleg CDs more a threat than P2P - CD Freaks.com
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at least, som common sense coming from RIAA

Slashdot | Google Blacklists CNet Reporters Apparently, Google was angered by an article published earlier by Cnet where all sorts of personal information about Google CEO Eric Schmidt was included. The information was obtained from Google searches.
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That's Funny!

Generation 'X & Y' still want that physical CD for music - CD Freaks.com
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Specially because buying music online is more expensive that getting the physical CD

Firefox: Doing it for love - ZDNet UK Insight We're excited about Microsoft launching IE 7 — it will remind a lot of people that if they want better features they have to spend hundreds of dollars upgrading. [...] Ben Goodger [the lead Firefox engineer] implemented some awesome installation tools so you could copy over your favourites, settings etc. It made Firefox seem like an upgrade for IE.

Students refuse to buy a single song from Napster | The Register

Live 8 concerts cause CD album sales to rocket up to 1,343% - CD Freaks.com: "So far the music industry thinks the only proper way to prop up sales is by eliminating free illegitimate sources, adding copy protection measures to media and so on. Well, the Live 8 concert has really shown the way to boost sales by giving their gusts (and others) what they really want - Enjoyable music. "

ABC News: Now, the Sun Prevents Skin Cancer -- Right?: "people need to coat themselves with sunscreen whenever they're in the sun. Doing that may actually contribute to far more cancer deaths than it prevents, some researchers think."
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I am tired of all this non-sense, couldn't 'researchers' agree on something???

Slashdot | Owner of the Word Stealth 'Protecting' Rightshe has pursued it vigorously in the courts and has even managed to shut down "stealthisemail.com" (Steal This Email.com) because the URL coincidentally contains the word "stealth".
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how can this happen?????

2000_jan_a3: "I once worked for a company that replaced their drafting boards with a CAD system. But not a dime was spent to train their people. They struggled, secretly drawing on paper, and copying that into the computer. Then the managers complained that they weren't seeing the productivity improvements promised by the CAD vendor."