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[IMAGE]	[IMAGE] 	[IMAGE]	 [IMAGE]   In the News  June 6, 2001  [IMAGE]  [IMAGE]Blackout betrays Web's weak spot  [IMAGE]Free-speech lawsuit targets record industry  [IMAGE]Clowning around at Computex  [IMAGE]U.S. PC shipments seen declining  [IMAGE]Future Power settles iMac suit  [IMAGE]Lucent to offer early retirement to 10,000   [IMAGE]  [IMAGE]   [IMAGE]  [IMAGE]  Special reports [IMAGE]  [IMAGE]    Connection is king Day 3 of "Death of the free Web" examines AOL's journey from criticized to lionized. Read Full Story   [IMAGE]   [IMAGE]   Blackout betrays Web's weak spot  For much of the past week, two large stretches of the Internet turned invisible to each other. Unlike the electrical outages plaguing California, which no one wants, this intentional blackout suited the purposes of one side in the collapse of talks between two major Internet service providers, Cable & Wireless and the financially strapped PSINet. A critical link between the two networks was cut, blocking some companies from seeing their own Web sites, and stalling e-mail between thousands of sources.  June 6, 2001, 10:30 a.m. PT  |  Read Full Story  [IMAGE]  Free-speech lawsuit targets record industry  The Electronic Frontier Foundation filed a lawsuit Wednesday on behalf of a group of scientists, asking that they be allowed to publish research on anti-copying technology despite protests from the entertainment industry. The paper, which discusses weaknesses in some watermarking technology that record companies were considering as protection for their music, was quashed in April after the Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI) and the Recording Industry Association of America discouraged Princeton professor Edward Felten from presenting his findings, saying he risked breaking copyright laws.  June 6, 2001, 12:25 p.m. PT  |  Read Full Story  [IMAGE]  Clowning around at Computex  The war of words between Via Technologies and rival Intel has been fast and furious as usual, but the most heated comments at Computex are not about which deals were cut, but rather which balloons. Both chipmakers wanted to show the support that exists for their processors and chipsets by having companies that use their products display balloons with the chipmakers' respective logos at this week's trade show here.  June 6, 2001, 11:45 a.m. PT |  Read Full Story  [IMAGE]  U.S. PC shipments seen declining  The next couple of years will be lean ones in the PC industry, research firm IDC predicted on Wednesday. IDC revised its 2001 forecast for overall PC shipments, lowering projections for the United States and worldwide. For the first time, U.S. shipments are expected to decline from the preceding year.  June 6, 2001, 11:55 a.m. PT  |  Read Full Story  [IMAGE]  Future Power settles iMac suit  Future Power on Tuesday said it has settled a lawsuit with Apple Computer, which claimed the company sold a look-alike version of its popular, fruit-colored iMac computers. Apple, which filed the federal lawsuit against Future Power in July 1999, had contested the company's right to sell an all-in-one system built around a 15-inch monitor available in translucent colors similar to the iMac. The case had been scheduled for trial in the U.S. District Court in San Jose, Calif., the company said.  June 6, 2001, 7:20 a.m. PT  |  Read Full Story  [IMAGE]  Lucent to offer early retirement to 10,000  Lucent Technologies will offer early retirement to more than 10,000 managers as part of the telecommunications equipment company's effort to cut costs and buoy its foundering operations. The action is another in a series of measures that the Murray Hill, N.J.-based company is taking to get itself shipshape again. Lucent is already in the middle of a restructuring plan, in which 2,000 employees have been let go thus far, and that includes layoffs of 10,000 by July. The 10,000 early retirees are not part of the layoff tally.  June 6, 2001, 9:10 a.m. PT  |  Read Full Story  [IMAGE] 	 [IMAGE]  Visit the CNET Research Library, powered by Bitpipe   Also from CNET    IT Manager Community from Tech Republic   Featured Comparison: 50 Most Popular Handhelds   Test Your Internet Connection   Laid off? Apply for a new tech job   Build an Online Photo Album    	 [IMAGE]  [IMAGE]  [IMAGE]  [IMAGE]  	[IMAGE]	


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