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A federal appeals court Thursday overturned a ruling that would have forced Microsoft Corp. to incorporate Sun Microsystems Inc.’s Java programming language in the Windows operating system. The three-judge panel in Richmond, Virginia, said a lower court judge had erred by ordering Microsoft to carry its rival’s software, a penalty the lower court judge said [...]

Google is in the process of releasing a new browser toolbar that lets people block pop-up ads and easily update their blogs as they surf the Web.
Google’s Toolbar 2.0, set to be officially announced late Thursday, is the first publicly available software that incorporates the technology Google gained when it acquired Blogger creator Pyra [...]

Newsweek is running one of those always-popular stories talking about “ten inventions that will change your world“. To avoid the unnecessary overhype, I probably would (and did in my title) change the headline to “may change your world”. Still, though, I always find these types of articles interesting, if just to get me thinking about [...]

After months and months of beta testing and years of waiting, the Star Wars version of Ever-crack is now shipping. Order your copy today. There are already plans for an expansion pack in 2004 that will feature more character races, worlds, and even the ability to buy, fly, and fight in your own spaceship. The [...]

(AP) WASHINGTON - The embattled music industry disclosed aggressive plans Wednesday for an unprecedented escalation in its fight against Internet piracy, threatening to sue hundreds of individual computer users who illegally share music files online. The Recording Industry Association of America, citing significant sales declines, said it will begin Thursday to search Internet file-sharing [...]

There are some newsbits to report regarding the title for “Episode III”…but I can tell you with some confidence that you shouldn’t listen to anything you here. Remember how we went through this fiasco with the first two “Star Wars” prequels but in the end, “The Phantom Menace” and “Attack of the Clones” were thrown [...]

Some guys made a mod for Battlefield:1942 which turns the World War 2 shooter into a swashbuckling adventure on the high seas with Pirates. You can snag that at FilePlanet.

Someone over at eBay has noticed Google’s tremendous success with their AdWords program, and has realized that they can do something similar. Starting tomorrow eBay will let sellers buy certain keywords linking them to related auctions. Here’s another case where pay-per-click keywords probably do make sense - since people are specifically searching. The question, though, [...]

Microsoft’s path to expand the Windows empire is leading directly to search king Google.
The software company this month quietly launched a new search program called MSNBot, which scours the Web to build an index of HTML links and documents. The homegrown system–which performs robot functions previously left to Inktomi and other partners–may pose a significant [...]

An as yet un-fixed vulnerability in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer could result in the creation of a serious Internet worm, security experts have warned. The buffer overflow vulnerability is triggered by a malicious Java script that can be embedded in a html document. When a web page or html file containing the malicious script is [...]