Inside This Mornings Bytes:
•Gator Going Public... Who Wants to Own Some Spyware Stock?
•Netsky.Q Takes Down 4 of 5 Targets
•Captain, We're Being Jammed! Cell Phone Jamming Technology Arrives
•California becomes VoIP regulatory battleground
•Microsoft Twists Mac and Linux Tails Again with Webcasts
•Can't We All Just Get Along? Secret Anti-Spam/Spammer Conferences not so Secret Anymore
•Come inside and get more news and other TidBytes you should know about...

•PalmOne Running out of Parts to Build Treo600s:
A display parts shortage could slow production of PalmOne's new Treo 600 smart phone, threatening to hurt sales momentum for the popular device and put the brakes on the company's latest rebound.
•Netsky.Q Takes Down 4 of 5 Targets:
Four of the five P2P sites targeted by Netsky.Q have succumbed to attack, with Kazaa appearing to be the only one left standing. Both eDonkey and eMule were taken down in the attack, though eDonkey is still accessible through an alternate site.
•Captain, We're Being Jammed! Cell Phone Jamming Technology Arrives:
Companies have started selling devices that detect and block cell phone activities in specific areas. Although some businesses, like movie theaters for example, might welcome the technology, cell phone industry experts and federal regulators deride jammers as unlawful, unethical and even dangerous.
•California becomes VoIP regulatory battleground:
Vonage, 8x8 and others have been joined by some powerhouse telephone companies in fighting California utility regulators who wanted them to follow traditional phone rules. California and other states say they need some sort of regulation of VoIP, because they stand to lose tens of millions of dollars that come from fees and subsidies provided by telephone companies operating in their jurisdiction.
•Rhapsody for Europe:
RealNetworks is planning on launching its Rhapsody music service in Europe, probably within 6 months to a year. Other companies like Napster and Apple are also planning on launching their services in Europe, but RealNetworks has an advantage because their service allows unlimited music downloads for a regular subscription, rather than charging per tune.
•Good Intentions, Bad Idea:
The Metasploit tool allows security experts to check computers on their networks and identify those vulnerable to newly released flaws by enabling people to create standardized plug-ins for the tool so that they can legally hack into computers by manipulating the latest security holes. The obvious problem is that the automated detection of vulnerable servers could allow a person with little technical knowledge to break into a computer.
•Ultra Wideband Gets a Boost:
A new proposal by PulseLink suggests any number of UWB standards could operate, if devices use an agreed low-speed signaling mode to negotiate. To sidestep the standards snarl-up at the IEEE, the idea will be put to the world's telecoms body, the ITU, in June.
•Broadband campaigners demand more govt leadership:
Broadband activists have called on the e-commerce minister to give a more powerful lead in the drive to create Broadband Britain 2010. From a residential perspective, 1Gbps is unlikely even for 2010, but perhaps they could drive something more realistic (100Mbps?). Typically nobody seems to be pointing out a rather glaring flaw with faster broadband, the fact that content is not being created to keep up with such technological enhancements.
•Can't We All Just Get Along? Secret Anti-Spam/Spammer Conferences not so Secret Anymore:
Over the past year a series of meetings arranged by a trusted figure in the American anti-spam community, Anne Mitchell, have been slowly bringing the two sides together. The mini-conferences are held under the banner of the Institute for Spam and Internet Public Policy and are attended by the major ISP's and the likes of infamous spammer Scott Richter.
•AT&T Woes Continue; Now Being Sued for Illegally Charging Customers:
AT&T Wireless, which Cingular Wireless LLC is buying for $41 billion, has been sued by customers who claim that they were illegally charged full monthly rates after switching cellular-phone service providers before the end of a month. This comes after AT&T was handed a huge phone bill by the FCC for sending long distance calls partially through the internet.
•Google's Gmail Taking a Beating from All Sides:
After being slammed in the US and UK for using technology that many feel violates privacy and possibly facing a copyright infringement for using the "GMail" name, Googles 1gig free email service may be forbidden under German (and possibly European)law because it scans the content of incoming email and seeds it with targeted ads. German privacy laws state that email, fax and phone conversations are considered to be confidential.
•All Ready Under Fire, Cisco Fears Realized as Hacking Tool is Released:
One day after it disclosed a security vulnerability in a wireless networking product, Cisco Systems must contend with a new threat, the long-promised release of a hacking tool that targets wireless networks running its LEAP wireless authentication protocol. The tool, called "Asleap," allows users to scan wireless networks for those using LEAP, capture wireless network traffic and crack user passwords, according to a message posted on Bugtraq.
•WiFi to Outshine 3G in US by 2007:
The growth of wi-fi will increasingly threaten 2.5G and 3G telephony in the coming years, according to a new report that looks at the state of the industries in the United States. The report, The New Wireless Road Warrior: How Business Travelers Are Shaking Up the Telecoms Industry – from Wi-Fi to 3G, says that in the years ahead more Americans will consume mobile data using wi-fi than using 2.5 or 3G services.
•Microsoft Twists Mac and Linux Tails Again with Webcasts:
Baseball fans can watch hundreds of games live on the Web for the price of a single stadium ticket... but only if their PCs run Windows. Microsoft offers a steep discount on live Webcasts of Major League Baseball games... but only to Windows users. Mac users have to pay full price, and Linux fans are out of luck. Shocking, isn't it.
•Gator Going Public... Who Wants to Own Some Spyware Stock?:
Spyware giant Claria, formerly known as Gator, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission to go public. Claria faces numerous risks, including new state laws and lawsuits that allege its pop-up ads violate the trademarks and copyrights of third-party site publishers.

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Despite strong Blackberry earnings, RIM stock falls
More music labels seek end to 99c music per song download
Nokia's Bluetooth CDMA phone draws iPod comparisons
UK web users back file-sharing, would resist music industry threats
Phishing con hijacks browser bar
Sending sensitive medical information over VoIP