Google roped into RIAA and KaZaA battle

No one questions Google's power of retrieval these days, but legal rulings can have an effect. The all-powerful search engine has now been roped into the ongoing dispute between RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) and the makers of the KaZaA peer-to-peer software. Slashdot has spotted that Google has cut down on its search listings for KaZaA Lite, under the terms of the DMCA Digital Millennium Copyright Act. ...more

Nokia spurns Apple in bid for share of mobile music market

Nokia and Loudeye are to work on a global music service for mobile networks and phones. Nokia has reached an agreement with the company that bought the OD2 music service to create a mobile platform for the delivery of digital music to phones. Motorola recently cut a deal with Apple to use its iTunes software on phones that will be available next year, but instead Nokia is choosing the company that owns OD2, whose technology powers the music services of a number of European ISPs and portals, including Wanadoo and MSN. ...more

RIM staves off shutdown order

The three million Blackberry users in the United States can continue using their devices a judge said on Friday. It had been feared that US District Judge James R. Spencer would order Blackberry manufacturer Research In Motion to cease all operations in the US, following the failure to have its appeal heard by the US Supreme Court. ...more

Virus man arrested

Police have arrested a Surrey man accused of distributing the first Trojan horse-style virus designed to attack Linux machines. The T0rn virus spread throughout 2001 but caused little disruption or damage. Graham Cluey, senior technical consultant at anti-virus company Sophos told Reuters, that as far as he could recall, it never made the list of top ten most active viruses. ...more

US keeps control of the Internet

The United States has won the battle to keep control of the Internet. A last minute detail allowed the US to retain control of the domain name system through the non-profit Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) headquartered in California. In return, the US has agreed to begin talks about potentially relinquishing some control and the long-term governance of the DNS. ...more