Independent projects are bringing Ruby to 2 widely-used development frameworks; reactions of Sun, Microsoft. Internetnews.com.

News announcement that the online superstore now offers e-books. [E-Commerce News]

"A Web developer in New York claims she's the victim of reverse domain-name hijacking by America Online Inc." [Internetnews.com]

Deadline for IBM to reach resolution with SCO or risk loss of AIX Unix license is fast coming, but AIX customers may not need to worry yet. [InternetNews]

The U.S. District Court ordered the immediate shutdown of a Web site owned by a European spam outfit for bilking more than $1 million from customers, Federal Trade Commission officials announced Monday.

Ryan Naraine's article: "With eyes firmly fixed on winning the approval of the Web developer community, search technology favorite Google has launched a Web API service using the SOAP and WSDL standards."

The World Wide Web Consortium reaches cross-industry agreement on an XML-based language for expressing Web site privacy policies.

Consortium turns to firms for support, input into future versions; first firms to be named Technology Partners, with duties: take part in Technical Advisory Board, committees; pre-release deliverables access; right to propose enhancements to Technical...

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