IBM rejects threat to cancel its license to ship Unix products starting June 13, saying its contracts guarantee rights to the OS, its Unix license is irrevocable and perpetual. [CNET News.com]

Home furnishing retailer IKEA has a new spin on spam, recruiting friends of friends to get the word out about its new store opening in the San Francisco Bay area. [CNET.com]

TVT Records, an independent record label, won compensation in a copyright infringement lawsuit against online music company MP3.com. [News.com]

Complaints about unsolicited commercial email have prompted an industry coalition to come up with standards designed to quell consumer concerns and keep regulators at bay. [CNET.com]

After months of evaluating whether to continue the credit card-size handheld organizer, Intel has decided the product does not fit with its plans, CNET News.com has learned.

Iomega today unveiled its first MP3 player, as the struggling storage maker latches onto one of the hot technologies of the moment. [News.com]

Lindows and Microsoft won't meet for trial until at least December. Judge delays trial (was scheduled for April) to give Lindows time to study documents from 1992 Apple vs. Microsoft case. [CNET News.com]

Federal Judge Marilyn Hall Patel released the details of her decision ordering the company to close its digital doors. [News.com]

A little-known Net access company using the address VW.net lost its legal battle today against the giant German carmaker Volkswagen, a sign that judges are again picking Goliath over David in Net name disputes. By Patricia Jacobus. [News.com]

Several U.S. congressmen have introduced new legislation that would legalize the services for which MP3.com faces potentially hundreds of millions of dollars in copyright damages. [News.com]