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A legal hourglass is draining to the end for MP3.com, which will face trial for potentially huge copyright-infringement damages next week if it can't strike a deal with one remaining record company. [News.com]

A federal judge ruled MP3.com willfully infringed the copyrights of Seagram's Universal Music Group, opening the company to enormous potential damages in one of the first trials to address the legal boundaries of Internet music distribution. [News.com]

Texas Instruments today announced its first chip designed specifically for digital music players, at the same time acknowledging that industrywide shipments of MP3 players will fall below predictions again this year. [News.com]

Napster may be changing the face of its service, making it subscription-based, and offering legal song downloads from supporting record labels. [News.com]

Alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins released what is being called its final album on vinyl and the MP3 format last week, forgoing a CD release through its record label, Virgin Records, according to postings on the band's Web site and published...

HP open source chief Martin Fink says Linux can't stay hobbyist toy if it's to become a leading OS, talks of SCO suit, indemnification, growth, Microsoft, IBM, desktop Linux, Sun, Red Flag. [CNET.com]

Microsoft connection to anti-Linux campaign being waged by SCO is growing clear. In latest move, Microsoft fuels the battle by licensing SCO Unix patents, source code. [CNET News.com]

CNET News reports that directories are being displaced by algorithmic search tools and commercial services. The analysis focuses on Yahoo!, the ODP and Looksmart.

CNET News reports that directories are being displaced by algorithmic search tools and commercial services. The analysis focuses on Yahoo!, the ODP and Looksmart.