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Macromedia has announced Macromedia Flash Player 7 for Linux. This new version of Macromedia Flash Player is said to offer improved performance and security and powerful new development capabilities. Macromedia Flash Player is bundled with Linux operating systems distributed by Novell, Red Hat, Sun Microsystems and Turbolinux ...

NASA is reporting that one of its space telescopes has discovered what scientists believe might be the youngest planet ever identified, at less than 1 million years old ...

IBM today announced a new program designed to help developers serving midsize customers to access both IBM hardware and software resources, on demand, to build, sell and deploy their technologies. ...

Symantec yesterday captured what the company believes to be the first known virus to attack 64-bit Windows executables on IA64 systems. The virus, called W64.Rugrat, is what Symantec is calling "a fairly simple proof-of-concept virus." ...

Nokia announced today that the latest addition to the N-Gage platform, the N-Gage QD game deck, started shipping today for markets in Europe, Africa and Asia Pacific. With a street price starting at EUR49.99 in some markets, the N-Gage QD game deck is designed to bring consumers mobile gaming in a compact package with a new ergonomic design and enhanced gaming features...

Napster, a subsidiary of Roxio, has announced that the Napster 2.0 online music service went live to music fans across Canada today at Napster.ca. Napster 2.0 provides both an on-demand music subscription service -- Canada's first -- and an "a la carte download" store ...

Microsoft today announced that it is working with Accenture to offer standardized technologies for governments in Europe. These "blueprints" are customizable sets of software strategies tailored to the needs of public sector organizations. Currently, blueprints are available from Accenture in seven categories: justice and public safety, e-government, education, human services, tax and revenue, enterprise management, and postal.

BEA Systems, an application-infrastructure software company, today announced the release of BEA WebLogic Workshop Control Pack, a set of freely available packaged and open-source controls designed to help enable developers to tap into the Web services capabilities of the Amazon, eBay, Federal Express, Google, PayPal and UPS platforms. ...

Cisco Systems has released specs on the forthcoming Cisco CRS-1 Carrier Routing System, a new class of router designed to deliver continuous system operation, service flexibility and extended system longevity to telecommunications service providers and research organizations. According to Cisco, the CRS-1 routing system will help enable customers to scale network capacity to new levels and deliver next-generation data, voice and video services over a converged Internet Protocol (IP) network while protecting their investments in the system...

Women who report regular use of aspirin appear to have a reduced risk of breast cancer, according to a study in the May 26th issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association. While cancer epidemiology and prevention have traditionally focused on the identification and modification of lifestyle factors that may increase or decrease the risk of various cancers, much recent attention has been centered on chemoprevention, the use of chemical agents to prevent or inhibit the carcinogenic process, according to background information in the article...

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has issued another 493 lawsuits against alleged music file-sharers, which brings the total number of individuals it has sued to almost 3,000. The RIAA doesn't yet know who any of these 493 users are, but the RIAA hopes to acquire their identities by gaining court orders that will force the ISPs to divulge the alleged perpetrators' information...

Cisco Systems today announced the Cisco CRS-1 Carrier Routing System, a new class of routing system designed to deliver continuous system operation, service flexibility and extended system longevity to telecommunications service providers and research organizations. According to Cisco, the CRS-1 routing system will help enable customers to scale network capacity to new levels and deliver next-generation data, voice and video services over a converged Internet Protocol (IP) network while protecting their investments in the system...