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.

“When a service using KTH Kerberos 4 recieves a response from a Kerberos server during the authentication process, it performs a memory copy of data contained within the packet to a buffer of predefined size on the process’ stack. It may be possible for an attacker to exploit this and gain root access on the host running the Kerberos-enabled service in the traditional buffer overflow manner.” Full details at SecurityFocus.com.

eWEEK reports that Sun is ready to roll with two new versions of its Java programming tools: “Forte for Java 2.0 will be available in two editions; the entry-level Community Edition, which is designed for client-side development, and the Internet Edition, which is positioned for server-side development. Both editions are based on the open-source IDE (integrated development environment) framework called NetBeans, which provides a modular architecture and the ability to plug in third-party tools.”

“Despite breathless promotion (‘the connectivity of your desktop when you are on the go’), WAP phones are not catching on. Overall, the mobile-phone business is exuberant. About 420 million handsets will be sold worldwide in 2000, according to a forecast by Dataquest Inc. But it’s unlikely that WAP phones will amount to even one in 10 of those.” Full story at MSNBC.