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...Napster and the customers of the music industry, the stakes are high. The events unfolding now behind courtroom and boardroom doors in California and Germany will be critical in determining whether the music industry can build what Charles Mann has called "the heavenly jukebox." Imagine being able to access the entire library of recorded music--from The Barber of Seville to I'm a Barbie Girl--anywhere, any time and on any device with a speaker and an Internet connection. In the next three years, DSL and cable modems will bring broadband connections as fast as the campus network...
...world remains frustratingly balkanized. At least a dozen systems are in service in the U.S. alone, many of them incompatible. This confusion adds to the pressure on AOL--which popularized instant messaging and commands a 90% share of the market--to allow rivals like Yahoo and Microsoft access to its IM systems. These cover some 80 million users under the AOL brand and a similar number under ICQ, an Israeli company that AOL bought two years ago. Says MacDonald: "AOL's installed base is the crown jewels of instant messaging...
American Intelligence Agencies now strongly suspect that the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, a Cairo-based extremist group that is part of OSAMA BIN LADEN's loose network, may have carried out the Oct. 12 attack in Yemen on the U.S.S. Cole. But unless the Yemeni regime allows the FBI access to witnesses and suspects, that may never be proved. The Yemenis are refusing to let U.S. agents join Yemeni authorities in conducting interviews. On Friday FBI Director Louis Freeh and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright appealed to President Ali Abdullah Saleh to let FBI agents "work as partners" with Yemeni cops...
...Tony Paikeday created the zBox. The sturdy plastic mailbox with an electronic lock lets carriers deliver when you're not home. Sign up for the service ($5 a month at zbox.com) and every package you buy online gets a number that the carrier uses to open the box. You access it later with a PIN code. The downside: one less excuse for being late to work...
...your buddy list. Microsoft, meanwhile, has launched its new MSN Explorer Web browser with the warm-and-fuzzy icons and labels AOL made famous. Explorer is free and works with any Web connection, but Microsoft wouldn't mind if you signed up at $21.95 a month for MSN Internet access. Same...