Singer releases album as digital download
San Francisco Singer Peter Gabriel has released his latest album, “Up,” as a digital download, coinciding with the album’s release in stores.
Some popular singles have been offered for purchase online in the recent past, but Gabriel’s album is the first full-length release from such a prominent artist.
The album was released digitally Tuesday in the Windows Media Audio Pro Format, a hi-fidelity download laced with security precautions to prevent unauthorized sharing.

Nonprofit organization taking over ‘.org’ domains
New York A nonprofit organization for Internet architects and professionals is emerging as the leading candidate to take over management of domain names ending in “.org.”
Staff for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the organization that oversees Internet naming policies, recommended selecting the Internet Society to serve as master-keeper for “.org” names beginning next year.
Ten other groups had vied to replace VeriSign Inc., a Mountain View, Calif., company that agreed to give up control over the “.org” directories in exchange for extended rights to the more lucrative “.com.”

White House interested in notification technology
Franklin, Tenn. Within weeks of the Sept. 11 attacks, new business came calling at Dialogic Communications, a provider of emergency notification technology.
Government agencies and corporations had emergency plans before the terrorist attacks, but few were prepared for a disaster anywhere near the magnitude of that day.
Dialogic had what the White House, the U.S. House and leading investment banking firms were seeking a way to immediately relay important emergency information to all personnel.
“Those are pretty big names that are suddenly putting (our systems) on site,” said W. Eugene Kirby Jr., Dialogic chairman and president. “It possibly wouldn’t have happened without the terrorist issue and anthrax scares.”
Dialogic’s computers transmit emergency messages to the phones, pagers, faxes and e-mails of affected employees anywhere.

Furor erupts over site monitoring scholars
www.campus-watch.org
Philadelphia A pro-Israel organization has set up a Web site to monitor professors and universities for pro-Arab, anti-Israel bias a move some academics are decrying as campus McCarthyism and attempted intimidation.
The Philadelphia-based Middle East Forum said it organized the Campus Watch site to counter pervasive bias in universities’ Middle Eastern studies.