Author: JT Smith
From PRNewswire: VMWare also announced that the product is finalized and available for sale at its website.
iRobot-LE features Linux on board
Author: JT Smith
LinuxNews.pl writes “Mobile AMD-K6 with Linux on board? It’s not what you think.
iRobot is an electronic guard of your home. It’s a robot that
you can remotely control via the Web! It has Linux on board, and it’s
very very smart. Check it out on iRobot.com“
iRobot is an electronic guard of your home. It’s a robot that
you can remotely control via the Web! It has Linux on board, and it’s
very very smart. Check it out on iRobot.com“
Category:
- Linux
Apple announces new high-end machines
Author: JT Smith
Fairfax IT: “Staggered by declining sales and a financial loss in the last three months of 2000, Apple last week announced new high-end machines in the hope of bringing the Mac faithful back into stores.”
Jakob Nielsen analyses White House website
Author: JT Smith
Wired.com: “It seems as though President Bush could use some advice about how to fix the problems on his White House website. Washington correspondent Declan McCullagh asks author and design maestro Jakob Nielsen for suggestions and a critique.”
Small computer, but big sales
Author: JT Smith
Fairfax IT tells us that the Palm handhelds are experiencing booming sales and a rosy future.
Category:
- Unix
Privacy battle brews in England
Author: JT Smith
Wired.com: “England introduces new legislation that gives police sweeping powers to search hard drives and maintain databases of genetic information. Proponents say it will cut down on public disturbances; critics fear it goes too far.”
Category:
- Programming
Intel starts to look outside
Author: JT Smith
Fairfax IT reports: “Intel’s seemingly insatiable appetite for peripheral vendors continued with last week’s news of its buy-out of mobile telephony company Xircom.”
Category:
- Open Source
Zend Store is open
Author: JT Smith
linuxnews.pl writes “The Zend Store is open. Now you can buy Zend products, such as Zend cache, Zend Encoder, and Zend Support. Zend IDE and Zend Launch Pad should be available soon.”
Category:
- Linux
Linux in 2001
Author: JT Smith
Kevin Reichard at LinuxPlanet offers up this slightly FUD-oriented piece on the prospects for Linux in 2001. Basically, he’s saying that Linux by itself isn’t going to do well; it needs to be a part of something in order to work.