Emerging Tech

Music file-sharing service Napster Inc. implemented file-filtering system Sunday night meant to block users from downloading a preliminary list of song titles provided by attorneys for the record industry, but by Monday afternoon users found they were able to bypass the system in some cases.

Attempting to boost up enterprise connectivity with trading partners and wireless users, Sybase Inc. on Monday introduced Enterprise Portal (EP) 2.0, which provides a portal environment for secure access to a variety of corporate applications and information sources.

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In what some had predicted would be judgement day for music-sharing service Napster Inc., the company revealed a plan Friday that appears set to block its users from accessing more than one million digital music files from its service.

Private company New.net Inc. will announce plans later Monday to offer a series of new Internet TLDs (top level domains), from .chat to .xxx, in a process calculated to sidestep the monopoly control of nonprofit organization ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) on such domains, the company said in a statement.

The search for life in outer space hit a snag earlier this week when the SETI@Home project ran into some very terrestrial problems.

For all of the horror stories about huge databases of credit cards being hacked into and posted on the Internet, surprisingly little consumer fraud is actually occurring.

Providing the means to reliably deploy wireless LANs has put Cisco ahead of the pack, according to one analyst.