SiliconValley.com reports that VeriSign Global Registry Services is ready to accept domain name registrations that use Chinese, Japanese, and Korean characters. Arabic and other languages are expected to follow.

Bidding begins Friday as the United Kingdom auctions off a part of its radio spectrum. The lucky winners will most likely use their new frequencies to deliver high-speed wireless services to home and business. A total of 42 licenses will be sold. Full story at BBC News Online.

TechWeb reports Transmeta is poised to reveal product plans with Microsoft, Compaq, and Gateway. Although Compaq recently nixed plans to offer the Crusoe chip in its next generation of notebook computers, the company still plans to use the technology to power its new Internet appliance product line.

An Internet Wire story on NewsAlert reports that Software Technology Group has made available the first public release of the Uniform Driver Interface environment for Red Hat Linux and Caldera OpenLinux. UDI provides a development structure for portable driver code and program plans for deploying the technology.

A recent Zona survey reveals that over half of the large companies it surveyed are expecting increases of Linux users within their firms of up to 50%. Smaller companies felt that Linux usage would expand by more than 50%. Full story at eWEEK.

Loki is seeking a few good beta testers for its port of the Sierra Studios title Tribes 2. This first-person action game features team-based play where players can fight alongside more than 60 others with all-new weapons and vehicles.

32BitsOnline.com takes a closer look at the second edition of O’Reilly’s Linux Network Administrator’s Guide. The book is available in traditional paper form and a free online version.

A Wall Street Journal report on ZDNet covers Sun’s efforts to cope with a server flaw, calling the bug “a mysterious fault that can cause its high end-servers to crash unexpectedly, an embarrassing problem for a computer maker that routinely refers to its servers as “rock solid” reliable.”

ZDNet reports that handheld computing giant Palm, Inc. is offering new incentives for developers. The program is claiming responsibility for fourteen new Palm devices, including a business card scanner, camera, and Global Positioning System.

Following the inclusion of XFree4.0.1 there have been many requests for help concerning installation and configuration in #debian, especially concerning 3dfx cards such has the Voodoo II Banshee and above. This article is here to guide you through how to setup and configure your system optimally for such hardware, including acceleration. From Debian Planet.