VeriSign removes redirect service

VeriSign has shelved its controversial redirect service after an ultimatum from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), reports Reuters. On Friday, ICANN issued a statement insisting that VeriSign halt its SiteFinder service and restore the ".com" and ".net" Web domains to the way they were before 15 September, when VeriSign began the service.

Symbian fans have acted against the selection of Windows CE .NET for its new device - the Netbook Pro. They have initiated a petition, reports MS Mobile, to withdraw Windows CE .NET from Psion`s Netbook Pro of Psion, and replace it with Symbian.

Geek.com reports on the same matter.

Napster, the pioneer of free music sharing on the Internet, returns to life this week after being forced to shut down in 2001, reports USA Today. It`s not the same old Napster that started the whole file-swapping hoopla, but a legitimate service hoping to attract paying customers.

Software manufacturer Roxio (Easy CD Creator) paid $5 million to buy the Napster name in bankruptcy court, and an additional $40 million for the struggling Pressplay fee-based music subscription service last year. Pressplay shuts down tomorrow - its estimated 100 000 subscribers and purchasers of a new Samsung "Napster" MP3 player will be among the first to test Napster 2.0 when it launches on Thursday - and the rest of the public will be invited later in the year, the paper reports.

As politicians have been racing to find ways to ban the junk e-mail known as spam, Internet providers have been boasting about filtering technologies capable of identifying the sort of messages typically sent by spammers and disposing of them.

But the spammers have been keeping ahead of the law and the filters, reports NY Times. The open nature of e-mail technology - designed decades ago by computer scientists who had little reason to anticipate spam - lets spammers hide their tracks and transform many of their messages to avoid detection.

As a result, many e-mail software experts now contend that the most powerful way to clean people`s mailboxes is to focus not on catching the spam, but on identifying the legitimate mail.