A Reuters item on InfoWorld reports that “All mobile phones in Britain will come with health warnings under new government guidelines to be rushed out ahead of Christmas.”

eWeek reports: “When Lotus Development Corp. began pitching its knowledge management platform to customers and business partners, many had a hard time grasping what KM was and what the product, dubbed Raven, would do for them. Now, nearly two years later, that confusion has not abated and, in fact, is growing.”

“In an example I looked at recently, Oracle wants to charge $505,000 to run its database on a $36,000 server. What’s wrong with this picture?” ZDNet’s Brett Arquette comments on Oracle’s pricing and alternatives for IT directors fed up with the software maker’s increasing licensing costs.

ZDNet News reports: “Some of the runners-up in the biggest dash yet for new Web territory started by the Internet Corporation for Names and Numbers aren’t done yet with their failed proposals. One is threatening to sue. Another threatens global communion. A third is trying to sort out just exactly how it feels.”

Dr. Dobbs’ latest weekly edition of Tcl news and links is now available at LWN.net.

Christopher Robato Yao of 32BitsOnline looks at the future of Rambus: “Despite earnings, those legal fees from suing all those memory makers may take a financial toll on Rambus. Rambus needs those suits to be settled early, maybe by early next year, but intellectual property lawsuits, which Rambus is fighting on multple fronts simultaneously, can take years to resolve.”

ZDNet UK reports: “Researchers at Cambridge University are developing cheap microchip technology using plastic that some pundits believe could lead to a revolution within the processor industry.”

The sources for daily wine builds as an APT source are changing. According to a post on the Debian-Development mailing list, “The service Zygo Blaxell for the last year or so will be discontinued because people do not want him to use resources on windows promotion.” Pointers to new sources are included.

“We’re drowning in passwords, and our brains are rebelling. Most of us have one of two strategies for remembering all these new strings of letters and numbers: use the exact same password across the board, or keep written reminders of the various secret phrases. Either way, the entire purpose of passwords — security — is undermined.” ZDNet News reports on an effort to replace text passwords with visual images.

Integrated Computer Systems today announced the immediate availability of Open Motif for Intel’s upcoming Itanium computer systems. It will be the first port of the GUI toolkit for IA64 Linux on Intel Itanium systems.