RIAA asked the courts to block all major-label content from being traded through Napster. [News.com]

A credit card-sized organizer called Rex that generated lots of hype but low sales gets a second chance at life in the hands of a new owner. [CNET.com]

The company reports losses of over $30 million for the fiscal year and indicates that future product development is in jeopardy. [CNET.com]

Xircom, which recently began shipping a new version of the credit card-sized personal digital assistant this month, has stopped its launch until next year. [CNET.com]

Xircom plans to unveil the $150 Rex 6000, which builds on the 1997 original by adding a touch screen and improved software for syncing data with a PC. [CNET.com]

Wanted: One spammer. Reward offered. A San Diego software engineer whose had it with people using his domain name "live.net" to send out spam is offering a $100 reward to anyone who can deliver the offending parties--or at least their names--to him. [...

The Jews For Jesus organization has filed a lawsuit against the owner of the Web site using the URL "jewsforjesus.org, " charging him with unauthorized use of the group's trademark. [News.com]

German media conglomerate Bertelsmann said Tuesday that it has formed an alliance with online music-swapping service Napster, signaling a significant shift in the so far hostile face-off between the major record labels and the start-up. [News.com]

Marc Fleury explains his vision for JBoss software, which he says will displace commercial Java server software faster than Linux is replacing more entrenched OSs. [ZDNet UK]

Attempting to distance itself from a spam controversy, PSINet cut off service to an admitted sender of unsolicited commercial email and pledged to amend its spam policy and educate its sales force. [CNET.com]