RIAA wrongly sues 66-year-old

Less than a fortnight after the US record industry received acres of bad press for suing a 12-year-old, it has withdrawn a lawsuit against a 66-year-old woman who has never downloaded a song in her life. What's more, Sarah Seabury Ward has a Mac, which can't even run the Kazaa software she is accused of using. The lawsuit against Ward is one of 261 the RIAA has filed in an attempt to clamp down on the illegal sharing of music files over the Internet. ...more

And also today (27-June-2001), for the record...

Here, in brief, are some of the day's other stories. New Fujitsu mini-notebook Fujitsu has released a more powerful version of its mini-notebook LifeBook B Series. Measuring 9. ...more

Price Check: Hard drives

Spin speed, seek time, buffer memory. IDE, SCSI, Serial ATA. These are all factors you need to consider when buying a hard drive. ...more

Judge dismisses Google pagerank suit

A U.S. judge has thrown out a lawsuit challenging the fairness of how search giant Google calculates the popularity of websites in determining search results, court papers show. ...more

New Linux kernel released

A new Linux kernel has been released, version 2.5.75 to be precise. ...more