Author: JT Smith
FairFax I.T. reports that Taiwanese computer company DA computing is releasing the Linux Cube, a see-through customised Linux server, following Apple’s lead with the Mac Cube.
Category:
- Linux
Red Hat teams with Indian company
Author: JT Smith
“The worldwide market leader for Linux OS, Red Hat, has tied up with Clover Technologies to float Red Hat India, which will offer technical support and training to its customers in India”…reports Reuters in CIOL Read the report–Shark
Category:
- Linux
U.S. consumers not on cutting edge of e-commerce
Author: JT Smith
nandotimes.com story claims, “Germans and Koreans have a bigger appetite than Americans for buying certain goods online…” So, apparently, do many other countries. It seems that (sob) we USian consumers are no longer the center of the Internet business universe.
Category:
- Open Source
RealNames opens challenge to “.com” naming system
Author: JT Smith
“LOS ANGELES–Privately held RealNames said on Wednesday it plans to open its proprietary system for
marketing common words as replacements for complex Internet addresses, in a challenge to plans for an
incremental expansion of the existing Web site naming system.” Story at CNet.
marketing common words as replacements for complex Internet addresses, in a challenge to plans for an
incremental expansion of the existing Web site naming system.” Story at CNet.
Rambus looks beyond the PC
Author: JT Smith
“Faced with uncertainty over the future use of memory chips featuring its proprietary high-speed interface in PCs, Rambus looks to carve a niche in networking hardware and expand its reach into the consumer electronics market,” says PC World.
Category:
- Unix
DVD rewritable drives battle it out at Comdex
Author: JT Smith
Ah, it’s a brave new world… all of a sudden (just as the MPAA long feared), DVD rewritable drives are all over the place. No mention in the eet.com piece on the current crop about whether any of things work with Linux or *BSD, but you know it’s only a matter of time until some clever hackers make it so.
Category:
- Unix
Can sex (still) sell? (online, that is…)
Author: JT Smith
Fortune.com profiles a new Internet retailer, Libida.com, “the spot for
female sexuality.” The story says, “Online retailing might be out of favor, but in Silicon Valley, there’s no killing the hope that you can make a lot of money off what your neighbors do behind closed doors.”
female sexuality.” The story says, “Online retailing might be out of favor, but in Silicon Valley, there’s no killing the hope that you can make a lot of money off what your neighbors do behind closed doors.”
Category:
- Open Source
Hack the Vote!
Author: JT Smith
“Malicious vote-bots could make hanging chads look tame,” says SecurityFocus columnist Kevin Poulsen in a story at The Register.
E-mail without @ sign proposed
Author: JT Smith
“An Italian company has proposed a new message routing system which could transform the way people communicate over the Internet if the application for a new TLD (top level domain) is accepted by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).” Full story @ PC World.
Bob Young on Red Hat’s origins
Author: JT Smith
Very cool story from LiuxWorld’s Joe Barr about how Bob Young and Mark Ewing met and ended up incorporating Red Hat. (Another installment is promised for next month.)
Category:
- Linux