The new IBM T23 features built-in support for 802.11b. With an embedded security subsystem and VPN support, the new model is said to offer more secure wireless connectivity.

AOL's open AIM, like Messenger, uses SIP.

An individual's right to Free Speech has been put to the test after a Russian programmer was arrested last week in Las Vegas. Find out what exactly happened and how the legal implications of what took place could affect us all.

An article on Wired.com ponders a similar idea that I had back in February: What if Napster was the answer for digital distibution?

Related link: http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/20/technology/20MUSI.html...

Invention is the easy bit Beware of new ideas. They can be 25 years ahead of their time. IDEAS are ten a penny. Put a handful of bright engineers in a brainstorming session and they will come up with literally scores of clever ideas for new products or processes. Invention is the easy bit. Innovation, by contrast, is the genuinely difficult part. And what makes a successful innovation usually has little to do with the originality of the idea behind it. What it does depend on--and crucially so--is the single-mindedness with which the business plan is executed, as countless obstacles on the road to commercialisation are surmounted, by-passed or hammered flat. Life in the fast lane really is 1% inspiration and 99% pure sweat.

Record stores have unknowingly been selling CD's to consumers that discourages converting tracks over to PC's for the past couple months.

ChainCast Networks announced on Tuesday that it has been issued U.S. Patent No. 6,249,810 but did not say whether it will examine other similar technologies to see if they infringe on its newly-awarded patent.

Settling the rumors, Napster has decided to abandon the MP3 format in favor of developing their own proprietary/anti-piracy format, which they've dubbed .nap.

I received the following email from Aaron Blosser today, after he saw the article about David McOwen's legal difficulties. Seems Blosser faced similar problems three years ago -- installing software on his employers' machines in an attempt to solve a scientific problem.