From LinuxPR: Zelerate, Inc., the leading provider of
accelerated e-commerce solutions, has announced that Nimish Mehta has
joined the company’s board of directors. Mehta’s in-depth high technology
experience includes executive operating positions as well as venture capital:
Senior Vice President of Oracle’s Industry Applications and CRM Division;
President and CEO of Impresse Corporation; and Managing Director of
Neospring Ventures, LLC, which invests in early stage software, infrastructure
and applications startups.

The CBC reports on a pending announcement that Corel Corp. will partner with
ELance Inc., a California company, and launch an
online marketplace for creative services. The news sent Corel’s shares soaring more
than 20 percent by Monday afternoon.

ZDNet reports on a twist in running global businesses that Internet firms might not have fully expected. It seems that businesses in the United Kingdom and elsewhere in the European Union are being warned that they face prosecution if they pass on a consumer’s personal information to their US partners or counterparts.

The company who developed most of the PHP scripting language now offers a few new applications designed to use PHP. In fact, the caching program, encoder, and PHP development environment are billed as being the first applications developed to use PHP. Full story at Techweb. More from CNet.

Info World says that worldwide revenues of products featuring Bluetooth wireless technology are expected to hit the $2.5 billion mark. This does, of course, require that someone actually release a mass-market Bluetooth product before the end of the year.

ZDNet weighs in with the latest editorial missive regarding Linux and IBM. The focus is on IBM’s attempts to blend Linux with its UNIX offerings, based on a recently-released toolbox for AIX that enables developers to recompile Linux applications to run on that platform.

ZDNet reports: “TurboLinux and Linuxcare have signed a letter of intent to
merge. The deal could further the progress of the fragmented
open-source movement in the enterprise sector and provide
a strong alternative to Red Hat Linux.”

Saint writes “Here’s my best go at a grandiose, ‘I am powerful’, hyped-up press release about something that’s good but not that big a deal:Houston, Texas: LinuxMedNews.com the leader in free and open source medical software news and resource information is proud to announce its latest contribution to the free and open source medical computing effort: LinuxMedNews Jobs/Classifieds/Career Development. This exciting new sub-site to the flagship LinuxMedNews.com can be found here and from the left of the LinuxMedNews home page by clicking the ‘Jobs/Classifieds’ link.Using the powerful Zope and Squishdot web publishing environments, readers can browse, search and post job listings, classified ads and career development information in easily searchable categories. Posts are viewable instantaneously. This classifieds section along with its Comprehensive Project List continues LinuxMedNews committment to help revolutionize medical education and practice through free and open source medical technologies.”

News.com reports on IBM’s attempt at copy protection, which allows songs “to be copied and sent from person to person as often as consumers want. But built-in restrictions would be triggered by the copies, permitting the next person in line on Napster or an e-mail chain to play the song only once, hear 30 seconds or hear nothing at all.” Widespread adoption hinges on the efforts of the music industry convincing the public to switch to copy-limiting media and playback devices.

ZDNet reports that the Open Source Development Lab will officially open this week. A joint project of IBM, Intel, Hewlett-Packard, NEC, the the lab hopes to make Linux more reliable for enterprise computing needs. Plans for the lab’s location at the University of Portland have been scrapped in favor of less expensive digs in nearby Beaverton.