News
Michael Callahan aka Dr. File Finder has sent out the email notices that The voting for the Shareware Industry Awards has begun.
CoffeeeCup quits the ASP
Microsoft Releases Windows Vista Beta 2
Microsoft has named both a desktop application and its Web search service--you guessed it--Windows Live Search.
European Commission: Software is not patentable
eBay Being Sued Over Internet Telephone Technology
Battle over .xxx domain not over yet

The Kiss My B**t award of the week.  This week Microsoft gets the award for telling Word users to operate in Safe Mode.

News from Dave Collins of SharewarePromotions.com
A reminder that Dave is putting out a new monthly newsletter: Competitive Edge
DMOZ descriptions and MSN
Piracy percentages in the UK
Google moves towards video ads
Symantec puts spanners in Vista works
Vista, the official list
A Belgian company has sued Google

This weeks Interview
This weeks guest is Brant Pallazza of Digital River. Brant is Vice-President in charge of Shareware. Brant joined Digital River in 1999.