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Patch Watch. Over the weekend, Microsoft issued a cumulative patch for Internet Explorer(including for IE 6 Service Pack 1), as well as a patch for its Windows Media Player. [Microsoft Watch from Mary Jo Foley] 12:18:22 PM 
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VeriSign suspends Site Finder following ICANN pressure. The controversial Site Finder service unveiled on the Internet last month by VeriSign Inc. was temporarily suspended by the company late Friday after the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) demanded that the feature be halted immediately due to concerns about its effects on the Internet. [InfoWorld: Top News] 12:17:44 PM
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Microsoft report prompts Forrester policy change. Forrester Research Inc. has changed its policy toward vendor-sponsored research following last month's publication of a controversial Microsoft Corp.-funded study that compared the cost of developing applications on Linux and Java to a Microsoft-based approach. [InfoWorld: Top News] A step in the right direction. 12:15:53 PM
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Charter Cable Sues To Quash RIAA Subpoenas
from the quashing-baby-quashing dept. mattOzan writes "Charter Communications, the third largest cable provider in the United States, has filed a motion in St. Louis, Missouri, to block the RIAA's requests for the identities of about 150 Charter customers in the St. Louis area. In the over 1100 subpoenas that have been issued so far, Charter claims they are the only major ISP that has not provided the RIAA with 'a single datum of information.'" [Slashdot] 10:03:26 AM
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Charter Cable Sues To Quash RIAA Subpoenas
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Google Starts Counting Searches. The Web search service Google has quietly started placing a counter on its home page for a small number of its most frequent users. By Lisa Napoli. [New York Times: Technology] 9:58:54 AM
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