ZDNet says Transmeta’s Crusoe processor may be the most innovative addition to mobile computing since the advent of the active matrix display.

Members of the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association are showcasing their wireless products in California, says NW Fusion.

ZDNet discusses declassified documents indicating that the FBI’s Carnivore e-mail snooping programme may be more then its name would imply.

The Standard cites experts who say Napster is playing dumb, that it knows who is sharing what with who and just isn’t willing to tell anyone.

BusinessWire via NewsAlert has a press release on Linuxcare’s latest customer, Tricord Systems.

A ZDNet review says the release of the StarOffice code isn’t as big of a deal as some people are making it. “Think of it this way: OpenOffice is to StarOffice what Mozilla is to Communicator.”

“In spite of a painful first install attempt, the flames of the Debian faithful, and a run of
bad luck with CDs that borders on creepy, a Linux World columnist is back this week with another Debian
install, Storm Linux 2000.”

RootPrompt.org has a ton of advice on building a good, cheap Linux machine. “You need to decide on the chipset/processor combination and then pick a motherboard with the
layout you need. I would like to be impartial, but it is always a good idea to stay away from Intel:
From Fall 1997 to Spring 2000, people witnessed recalls of pentiums due to ‘F0 0F’ pentium
bug, dropped L2 cache on original Celerons…”

It’s at LyX.org: “After 1.1.6 we will change the numbering scheme slightly so that hard
working system administrators won’t have to wonder what the fix suffix
stands for. They seem happy enough with something cryptic like the pl suffix
used by some projects but complain about fix. Oh well!”

The press release is at LinuxPR: Access Co., Ltd and Coventive Technologies announced
a joint solution that targets the surging information appliance market. The
partnership will gear to target the IA manufacturers in Asia for hand-held
browsers, PDAs, web phones, set-top boxes and many other information
appliances.