Free Live Music 
How about some free live music in the beautiful outdoors? I thought so....
http://milwaukee.about.com/b/a/175201.htm
the permission society: stay free! stories
Stay Free! has a fantastically interesting story about the struggles of a film maker with the permission society.
http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/002976.shtml
Microsoft preps Web front-end to IM server
Companies using Microsoft's Live Communications Server (LCS) 2005 will be able to provide Web access to the enterprise instant messaging system with a component the software maker is currently developing.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/062105-microsoft-im.html?fsrc=rss-messaging
iTunes Second Most Popular Downloading Software
In what can only be seen as good news for the music industry, a survey by the market research firm NPD Group ranks iTunes the second most-used music downloading software, tied with P2P software Limewire, second to the current en...
http://mp3.about.com/b/a/177907.htm
Best rebrands as Sage, launches hosted CRM service
Five years after it bought midmarket business applications vendor Best Software, U.K. software maker The Sage Group is finally bringing Best in line with its corporate branding and changing Best's name to Sage Software -- just as the newly renamed vendor revamps its portfolio to compete more aggressively.
http://www.networkworld.com/net.worker/news/2005/052405-sage.html
If Lego® made cell phones
If the Danish maker of the well-known interchangeable plastic blocks made cell phones, we'd probably be able to switch around both hardware and software to make just the kind of handset we wanted. And then change it into something else....
http://www.networkworld.com/weblogs/wireless/008253.html
CNN Report - Viruses piggyback on celebrity fame
While Britney Spears' pregnancy may be popular with celebrity news junkies, her time in the public eye is also making it a whole lot easier to spread computer viruses. According to a computer software maker, Spears tops the list of...
http://pcsupport.about.com/b/a/179209.htm
Download Free Music from CommonTunes
Free music download site commontunes.org was launched this weekend, offering a forum for uploading and downloading freely distrubutable music via hosted links or bittorrent. You can even turn feeds into podcasts. Featuring "Top Downloads," "Highest Rated," and "Our Picks," CommonTunes...
http://mp3.about.com/b/a/179276.htm
Microsoft Phone Software runs Hard Drives
Microsoft Corp., on Tuesday released a new version of its mobile phone software with the ability to run miniature hard drives and new features like a walkie-talkie style "push-to-talk."
The world's largest software maker has struggled in the mobile phone world but sees a chance to unseat entrenched rivals such as market leader Symbian Ltd. with Windows Mobile 5.0.
"We've made a heck of a lot of progress," Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said in an interview, "I think we've learned a lot." The maker of the Windows computer operating system launched a mobile phones unit about five years ago.
http://www.notepage.net/blog.htm#194
Microsoft strengthens ties with Japan universities
Microsoft is bolstering its joint research with Japanese universities, targeting such areas as security and natural language processing, the world's largest software maker said on Tuesday.
It will set up a collaboration network on July 1, hoping to promote exchange with researchers at top schools including the University of Tokyo, often called the Harvard of Japan.
http://www.wininsider.com/news/?8260
