It's Sony vs. Sony in Web battle: TOKYO -- In the global race to market music on the Web, Sony Corp. has had an unusual rival: Sony. As both an electronics company and a top record label, Sony wants to capitalize on any musical revolution online, making the latest in listening gadgets for it -- just as it has done before, with everything from the Walkman to compact disks. But the Japanese giant has also had to referee a potential conflict with its own music label which fears losing out to illegal copying.

Letter 'W' Missing From White House Keyboards: In an apparent prank carried out by departing Clinton administration staffers, Bush aides discovered that dozens of computer keyboards were missing the ``W'' key.

Light of Other Days by Bob Shaw Bob Shaw is the author of a significant body of successful science fiction novels and stories and is one of the leading science fiction personalities in the UK. His most famous single story is "Light of Other Days containing his powerfully evocative. if imaginary, invention of "slow glass" to slow the passage of light, later used in several other stories that all together form his book, Other Days, Other Eyes (1972)."

Scientists Bring Light to Full Stop, Hold It, Then Send It on Its Way The achievement is a landmark feat that, by reining in nature's swiftest and most ethereal form of energy for the first time, could help realize what are now theoretical concepts for vastly increasing the speed of computers and the security of communications.