Grateful Dead’s Strange Download Trip Ends

The widow of Jerry Garcia and the surviving band members had asked Archive.org to take downloadable recordings of the band offline, but the resulting fan outrage has forced a change of heart.

Google Readying Gmail Anti-Virus Utility

The search advertising company has been prepping anti-virus scanning for its web-based email client, a development sure to spur antacid sales at places like Symantec and McAfee.

IBM, Oracle Standardizing Web Services

Sometimes a great joke never dies. Just substitute "Web" for "Unix" in the following canonical one-liner and you'll see what I mean: "The nice thing about Unix standards is that there are so many to choose from."

Mark Cuban On Splogs And BlogSpot

The man behind the IceRocket blog search engine wrote in to clarify how they are dealing with spam blogs, and IceRocket's stance on Google's Blogger hosting service.