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Key change <br />for Sony

Key change
for Sony

Company to add native MP3 support to its portable music players in notable shift for online song market.
Full Report
Security squeeze play

Security squeeze play

Security updates for Internet Explorer will be handled via XP updates. What about the other half of all Windows users?
Full Report

Europe may be close to allowing Oracle bid

The European Union's competition commissioner is ready to allow Oracle to proceed with its $7.7 billion hostile takeover bid for PeopleSoft, people close to the case said Friday.
The New York Times

HP discontinues its Itanium workstations

The Intel chip, once expected to dominate the server market and even creep into PCs, takes yet another knock.

New Microsoft set-top box ready to roll

MSN TV2 is the successor to the original WebTV device, the new box is a vast departure from its predecessors.

FDIC warns about e-mail 'phishing' scam

Agency issues its warning eight months after criminals began using its name and reputation to perpetrate e-mail fraud.

Game puts players in Kerry's boat

Latest outing from military game firm re-creates Vietnam battle that earned presidential candidate the silver star.

Can you say 'offshore' anymore?

Politically charged phrase disappearing as firms cook up new terms to describe sending work to cheaper labor markets.

Conservative group savages anti-P2P bill

Political wrangling over a copyright bill that could imperil some MP3 players heats up in the Senate before a vote next Thursday.

Red Hat exec takes Sun to task on open source

update Michael Tiemann criticizes software rival Sun for its support of patents and for keeping Java proprietary.

Week in review: Dig that crazy beat

Several major forces in the music industry change their tunes, as the industry tries to stay on top of the fast-changing market.

Briefly: Via brings PCI Express to AMD PCs

roundup Plus: Rice lab makes nano parts less toxic...TV chip company gets $19 million...Oracle extends deadline on PeopleSoft bid...MLB sells game clips for 99 cents.
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Dubious software battle?

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Technology and 9/11

William Schneider Jr. writes that identity authentication is crucial to stopping terrorists.

Cell phones track workers

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Reinventing the wheel

MP3.com's Eliot Van Buskirk writes that the iPod's secret weapon is the scroll wheel.

The road to riches

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