Computer World reports that the fastest undersea cable line to date will be laid by London-based Cable and Wireless PLC, at 3.2 Terabits per second. The new wiring will have one line going to each of France and the UK.

ZDNet reports that IBM has launched a new weapon in the online music arms race. It would allow music swapping sites to require payment for songs exchanged.

From PR Newswire: Borland Software Corporation (Nasdaq: BORL), formerly known as Inprise
Corporation, will announce its fourth quarter earnings and year-end 2000
financial results on the morning of January 25, 2001. Borland will conduct a
conference call on Thursday, January 25th, at 7:30 a.m., Pacific Time, to
discuss the details of its fourth quarter earnings and year-end 2000 financial
results.

Kelly McNeill writes: “Considering the fact that many companies do not support Linux, it’s ironic that the same companies use Linux to their advantage. Take a look at the active role that Linux plays in AOL Time Warner. AOL uses Linux as well as open source software in some of its embedded devices, and serves AOL.com.au under Apache. For its part, Time Warner uses Linux to render special effects in some of its movies while also incorporating many of the advantages of freeBSD. Coincidentally, another OS the company does not allow.” The column is at OS Opinion.

From LinuxPR: Andamooka has added four more books to its community-annotated online
collection of open content.

“The Cathedral & The Bazaar” is a well-known collection of essays on Open
Source by Eric S. Raymond.

“Underground,” by Suelette Dreyfus, is a novel based on the true stories of the
“hacker” (perhaps “cracker” is the right word) underground. It has recently been
released online under an open-content style license to Project Gutenberg and
Andamooka.

“Linux Newbie Administrator’s Guide,” by Stan and Peter Klimas, is an
introduction to Linux written by authors who have recently learned the OS
themselves, so they understand what newbies are going through.

“Squid: A User’s Guide by Oskar Pearson, is the manual and guide for the Squid
Internet proxy-cache.

ZDNet reports that the Ramen virus, which has hit versions of Red Hat 6.2 and 7.0 in the United States, has now moved overseas. The story says the vandals themselves are switching to Red Hat.

LinuxWorld.com reviews the old SGI-Irix desktop, Indigo Magic
Desktop project for Linux.

An anonymous reader clued us in to a Matrox G400/G450 review: “The G400 and G450 are Matrox’s latest foray into the world of multiple-monitor cards. While these two are not the only multi-monitor cards that Matrox produces, they are certainly the most affordable. Part the reason for this is Matrox’s engineering on these cards allows them to do…”

Get the scoop at: http://www.linuxlookup.com/html/reviews/videocards /matrox-g400.html“

At LinuxPR: Penguin Computing Inc., a San
Francisco, Calif.-based provider of reliable Linux systems for Internet serving,
today announced that John P. Page has joined the company as chief financial
officer. Page, a veteran of Agilent Technologies Inc. and
Hewlett-Packard Co., brings to Penguin Computing more than a
decade of financial management of fast-growing high-tech operations. Page’s
hiring follows closely on the announcement last week of the appointment of
Marty Seyer, a veteran of high-level positions at NCR and Dell
Computers , as the company’s president and CEO.

From LinuxPR: theKompany.com has release KDE Studio
Gold, a GUI IDE for KDE. This new release delivers a full-fledged IDE for the development of
sophisticated C++ KDE applications — including the high utility features you
expect from a modern development environment, such as code completion,
dynamic syntax highlighting and popup function parameter lookup.

KDE Studio Gold is a commercial release of our Open Source KDE Studio
project.