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Groove lands the pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline as a customer; with over 100,000 employees, GlaxoSmithKline has agreed to purchase 10,000 copies of Groove 1.0.

Groove Networks also announced the release of its Groove Development Kit 1.0 (GDK), which allows users to create “p-to-p applications using just XML and scripting languages such as JavaScript.”

From: Groove ships p-to-p platform

most of this article is down on P2P as a pure-play, but i thought this quote was interesting … “A number of start-ups, for instance, are working on software to let people collaborate on office projects, or run programs over the Web as well as on local PCs.”

AltaVista – BabelFish Translation

“Used to be they’d gather in Washington, D.C. to discuss civil rights and freedom. These days, it’s all about the right to download copyrighted material. Will you join Napster in its ’teach-in’ next Tuesday at the Capitol? Declan McCullagh reports from Washington.”

From: Wired News

i got this one from john: “A computer virus that can infect PCs running either the ubiquitous Windows operating system or the increasingly popular Linux operating system emerged on Tuesday, which its discoverers say is a world first.”

From: News: Virus hits both Linux and Windows

“Finding and organizing information is the No. 1 problem in technology”

MWT’s mission: “to help people gain control of their digital data through software that lets them find their files more easily.”

Their product, Scopeware, is basically a P2P client, like gnutella, but designed for corporate use.

They have an interesting solution to the document management issue, because documents are stored on employees’ hard drives, but it doesn’t help document collaboration.

Here’s the Business Week article about them. (thanks kim)

ted sent me this one: “Thousands of confidential messages between the CEO of an Internet company and top executives have been posted on the Web, stirring up a hornet’s nest of corporate intrigue and providing a rare glimpse into a dot-com as it struggled to cope with a brutal shakeout.”

CNET Story
ICQ Logs [scary]

P2P extreme … “The Grid will not only enable sharing of documents and MP3 files, but also connect PCs with sensors, telescopes and tidal-wave simulators.”

From: The Grid: The Next-Gen Internet?

hmm, “…a stealth company that hopes to merge some of Akamai Technologies’ approach with a Napster-like model…” [more here]