Services Trying to Go Legit (AP)AP - (Internet advertising) A key U.S.

Services Trying to Go Legit (AP)AP - (Internet advertising) A key U.S.

File-Sharing Services Trying to Go Legit (AP)
AP - A key U.S. Supreme Court ruling has left the makers of software used to swap pirated songs and movies online under pressure to build licensed services, go out of business or face new entertainment industry lawsuits.

Verizon Wireless, Records Vendor Settle (washingtonpost.com)
washingtonpost.com - A Tennessee company will stop selling personal cell phone records of individuals over the Internet and will provide information on how it acquired such data under an agreement reached last week with Verizon Wireless.

John Lennon Memorabilia to Be Auctioned (AP)

AP - Baby, you can drive his car. John Lennon's 1956 Austin Princess, the modified hearse featured in his 1973 documentary, "Imagine," is among items tobe auctioned starting Oct. 2 at http://www.juliensauctions.com.

3 laptop makers to add Verizon wireless for Net (SiliconValley.com)
SiliconValley.com - In another step toward a wireless world, the top three makers of laptop computers have agreed to build into their laptops Verizon Wireless technology to provide high-speed mobile Internet access to customers.

Hollywood studios form tech group to fight piracy (Reuters)
Reuters - Hollywood's six major film studioson Monday unveiled a technology venture to find new ways ofprotecting movies from illegal copying and distribution inblack markets or over the Internet.

Confusion, tech issues delay legit file-sharing sites (USATODAY.com)
USATODAY.com - Getting legitimate online music and video file-sharing programs off the ground is taking a lot longer than originally promised. Two promising ventures have been hampered by technical delays and confusion over copyright rulings that seek to curb the wildly popular practice of swapping.

In Brief: Vendors collaborate on new SOA Maturity Model (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Sonic Software has joined with AmberPoint, BearingPoint, and Systinet to publish a new SOA Maturity Model (SOA MM) and launch a 10-city Management Forum tour designed to educate managers on maximizing the benefits of their SOA investments. The SOA MM provides detailed guidance to enable SOA leaders to establish multiyear SOA initiatives. It defines five levels of maturity, which SOA MM managers can use to determine the level their organizations are currently executing at, and also provides recommendations for setting management goals and identifies practices to help organizations advance to higher levels. Forrester analyst Randy Heffner and InfoWorld editors will be joining the vendors on the Management Forum series, which is scheduled from Sept. 20 to Oct. 13. Seminars will be held in New York; Parsippany, N.J.; Tyson's Corner, Va.; Philadelphia; Atlanta; Dallas; Chicago; Minneapolis; San Francisco; and Irvine, Calif. For more information visit www.sonicsoftware.com/news_events/seminars/soamgmtforum_sonic.

Apple's Jobs warns on'greedy'music pricing (Reuters)
Reuters - Apple boss Steve Jobs, the man behind thepopular iPod digital music player, called the music industrygreedy for considering a hike in the price of digitaldownloads, warning such a move would drive users back topiracy.

CORRECTED: Yahoo upgrades Web e-mail (Reuters)
Reuters - In September 14 SAN FRANCISCO story headlined"Yahoo blendsWeb e-mail with speed of desktop"in the fifth paragraph pleaseread"... and a co-founder of Oddpost..."instead of"... and aco-founder of Outpost..."In sixth paragraph, please read"Yahoo acquired Oddpost in July 2004"instead of"Yahooacquired Outpost in July 2004.".

Sprint Launches Streaming Music Service (AP)
AP - Sprint Nextel Corp. is becoming the latest cell phone carrier to let its customers listen to music on the devices.