Analysis, by Stephen Shankland. [CNET News.com]

"The consumer electronics maker is using electronic ink in its new e-book, marking one of the first applications of the next-generation display technology." [CNet]

E Ink is demonstrating a prototype of a flexible computer screen that's half as thick as a credit card. [CNet]

In one of the broadest crackdowns ever issued against a domain name holder, a federal judge orders eReferee.com to stop using the word referee in all of its domain names. By Lisa M. Bowman.

An independent panel of the National Arbitration Forum decides that several Aimster-held Net addresses violate AOL's AIM trademark.

"The nonprofit site recently became the target of Colgate-Palmolive when trademark lawyers from the household products giant and maker of the Ajax cleanser requested that the independent site yield its domain name." [cnet]

"Ajax.org, a nonprofit Web site, is organizing a federation of small domain name holders to stand up to wealthy trademark owners." [cnet]

It took a few years and a reported $3.3 million, but Compaq today said the news is official: it now owns the coveted domain name "www.altavista.com." [News.com]

Digital Equipment (DEC) has filed suit in U.S. District Court in Massachusetts against the Campbell, California-based multimedia software company AltaVista Technology Incorporated, (ATI) over use of the AltaVista name, which is the trademark of DEC's ...

In a significant win for small businesses on the Net, a federal judge has ruled that a registered trademark, even when held by a well-known company, does not automatically entitle its holder to own the corresponding domain name. By Dan Goodin. [News.com]