News article on Philip's decision to end the Nino line from C/NET News.com.

The war on unsolicited email suffered a setback this week as a spam-blocking site was bounced off the Web. [News.com]

Open-source software developers hoping to create a free replacement for the MP3 technology are pushing ahead with their project after the collapse of their parent, Webcasting start-up iCast. [News.com]

Draws a distinction between open source advocacies and the promotion of public standards, warning against the confusion of these two initiatives.

Network Solutions threatens to sue an antispam group if it adds them to a spam blacklist. [CNET]

Network Solutions granted Shit.com to Mail.com, then put it on hold. When it took it off hold, Real Assets scooped up the domain. Mail.com initiates a dispute.

Jim Hu and Jeff Pelline discuss Netscape’s acquisition of NewHoo and the strategy behind the purchase.

"I am trying to register the domain name 'shitakemushrooms.com, '" complained Netizen Jeff Gold in an email message to CNET's NEWS.COM. "It is available, but the InterNIC is refusing to register it because it contains four letters they consider obscene.

By Mark Driver, Gartner Analyst. Transformational leaps in network computing never occur at blink-of-an-eye speeds. The much-ballyhooed Java Jini software is a case in point.

Sun offers $30000 for implementing XSL for mozilla.org