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**Cable companies cracking down on Wi-Fi**  
Broadband providers are cracking down on popular Wi-Fi networks, threatening
to cut service to customers who set up the inexpensive wireless systems and
allow others to freely tap into their Internet access. Time Warner Cable of
New York City has given 10 customers less than a week to stop using their
accounts to provide a wireless local area network available to anyone within
300 feet. The letters are just an initial volley; Time Warner expects to send
additional letters, while AT&T; Broadband also is preparing similar letters
for some of its customers.  
July 9, 2002, 4:00 AM PT  |  **Read Full Story**
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**Apple's iPod comes to Linux**  
Windows users have recently been given access to the popular Macintosh music
player, iPod, and now Linux users may soon be able to take a bite out of Apple
Computer's gadget. Last week, tex9, a small software-development company in
San Francisco, began beta testing an iPod plug-in for its xtunes music player
software, which is itself a Linux clone of Apple's iTunes. The plug-in will,
tex9 promises, allow drag-and-drop access to iPod, which holds up to 10GB of
music.  
July 9, 2002, 12:00 PM PT  |  **Read Full Story**
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**Talk of Dell printer move heats up**  
Dell Computer appears to be moving toward selling its own printers. A pair of
analyst reports issued Tuesday added to a torrent of recent speculation that
the Round Rock, Texas-based PC maker's next move will be into the printer
market. Dell has plunged into a number of new markets over the past few years.  
July 9, 2002, 12:30 PM PT |  **Read Full Story**
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**Microsoft eyes Visa users with Passport**  
Microsoft hopes to extend its Passport online identification system into
authorizing credit card payments. The software giant will strike a partnership
Tuesday with security-software maker Arcot Systems, which builds online
payment systems for merchants and for banks that issue Visa and MasterCard
credit cards. Arcot makes the systems behind Visa's own Verified by Visa
program as well as a similar program in development at MasterCard.  
July 8, 2002, 9:00 PM PT  |  **Read Full Story**
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**Judge OKs suit against Kazaa parent**  
A federal judge said Monday that record labels and film studios could expand
an ongoing copyright lawsuit to include Sharman Networks, which distributes
the popular Kazaa software. The Recording Industry Association of America
(RIAA) and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) sued three
prominent file-swapping companies in October in Los Angeles federal court. The
suit named Morpheus parent StreamCast Networks, Grokster and Kazaa BV, the
Netherlands-based company that originally created the Kazaa software.  
July 9, 2002, 12:55 PM PT  |  **Read Full Story**
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**China wakes to new destiny**  
Global slump prompts tech titans to tap the sleeping giant's manufacturing
prowess and consumer market.  
July 9, 2002, 4:00 AM PT  |  **Read Full Story**
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