At LinuxPR: Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW)
today announced Forte for Java, release 2.0, the latest version of the company’s
leading cross-platform development environment for building Internet
services-based applications. Forte for Java, release 2.0 includes several new
plug-in modules that make it easy for Java developers to build data-centric
Internet applications.

BSD Today has an article on creating a firewall with ipfw and routing your internal private IP network through it onto the Internet.

ABCNews.com has a feature on TiVo: “TiVo’s actually more than a consumer appliance. It’s one of
the first true integrations of computers and TVs. Under the
hood, it’s a PowerPC-based computer running the Linux
operating system. Video is stored in a variant of the popular
MPEG computer video compression scheme.”

From LinuxPR: The KDevelop Team today announced
the release of KDevelop 1.3, a powerful, easy to use, Integrated Development
Environment for the C and C++ Programming Language based on KDE.
KDevelop 1.3 is a major update release that follows the successful versions 1.1
and 1.2 to enable developers for rapid application development for the new KDE
2.0 Desktop. KDevelop is the work of an international team dedicated in
providing an IDE under the Linux and UNIX operating systems, their freely
available product is known to be stable and improving productivity for any C/C++
developer.

From a CNBC.com column: “Microsoft could, in fact, co-opt the open-source movement the way
it co-opted the Web-browser business — after it found that its
proprietary online technologies couldn’t compete with the Internet
formats that Netscape was popularizing.”

The RSS-DEV Working Group has released RDF Site Summary (RSS) 1.0. RSS is the most prominent format for information/news feeds. –ftobin

From LinuxMedNews: “OIO, the open source metadata creation and interchange system, adds data cleaning, drill-down analysis, and other minor feature upgrades in this scheduled (monthly) release. 0.9.5 works with the newest Zope-2.2.4 and is compatible with all metadata and data from previous versions of the OIO.”

From Australian IT: “The growing popularity of mobile text messaging has led to a new kind of spam — bulk promotions sent over short messaging service (SMS). In Australia, some mobile users have been irritated after opening a SMS message only to find a promotional message from their carrier informing them of a new service they could take advantage of — for a fee.

Australian IT reports: “New Power Macs with built-in rewritable CD drives; faster PowerPC processors; an early kick-start to the new Mac OS X operating system; and new software called iPhone, iMusic or iStudio. These are just some of the products observers are tipping Apple leader Steven Jobs to unveil in coming weeks as the company tries to pick up the pieces after last week’s disastrous events.”

“DreamForge IRCd is an IRC daemon designed for the Dalnet IRC Network, and maintained by the Dalnet IRCd Team. A problem with the daemon allows users to remotely crash the daemon.” More information at SecurityFocus.com.