Emerging Tech

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.

Microsoft Corp. is recommending users of Exchange 2000 and Internet Information Server 5.0 install a patch that can prevent a denial of service attack.

Corning Inc. has announced it will cut 825 jobs in its photonic technologies businesses, in response to weak market conditions in the telecommunications industry.

Claude E. Shannon, viewed by some as the father of digital communications and information theory, died this past Saturday. He was 84. Shannon, related to Thomas Edison, is best known for his paper "A Mathematical Theory of Communication," which has been credited with assisting in the evolution of modern telecommunications, the Internet, compact disc and satellite technology.