Hey look, someone's beleagured and it's not Apple!

The Cable TV company has announced a $66 b-b-b-billion attempt to forcibly merger with Disney.

FasterMac.net, a services division of Other World Computing (OWC), yesterday introduced TurboMac, an accelerated unlimited dialup service with local 56K access throughout the United States specifically for users of Apple computers.

A security vulnerability in the Bluetooth wireless networking protocol can allow someone to steal your contacts and other information from an enabled phone, without leaving any trace of the theft.

The Mozilla Group has released the latest preview version of its standalone e-mail client, Thunderbird 0.5 and browser, Firefox 0.8. The browser was formerly known as Firebird.

Gefen, an interconnectivity solutions provider for computer and electronics components, announced the released of its new ex-tend-it SDI to DVI Adapter. The new Adapter enables high definition serial digital video transmitted through SDI to be converted to DVI (digital visual interface) for output to DVI displays.

A legal committee on how much power the courts can exercise in antitrust settlements? Clearly we need a Microsoft lawyer!

Music Industry Piracy Investigations, a division of the Australian Recording Industry Association, has raided the offices of Sharman Networks (owners of the Kazaaa p2p system) and Brilliant Digital Entertainment, as well as the homes of several of the companies' executives.

A San Francisco Examiner article brings up an interesting point of the Pixar/Disney split-up. Given that the contract runs until 2005, why the public split now?

Amnesty International is charging that Microsoft sold software to the Chinese government which resulted in censorship of the internet, and the jailing of Chinese dissidents, in violation of a new United Nations Human Rights code.

Chris Gorog, CEO of Roxio, warns music delegates to "stay off the Apple platform" and use, presumably, the less-popular Napster service.

Drink up! Coke has announced a deal with Musicmatch to give away free music downloads with the purchase of beverages. And Heineken, SoBe, and Miller are announcing deals with other sites, as well. My only question is, what took them so long to copy this idea?