ZDNet focuses on failures of free ISPs in Latin American countries; of many that started within the last few years, only a few are left, and those few are also having problems staying in business.

ZDNet story from London says, “Not only were sex sites the earliest to recognise the
opportunities of the web, but they went through the
learning curve much quicker than mainstream web
sites, sex industry entrepreneurs told Reuters at a
streaming media conference here.”

First, check the Salon story about the code used in the Secure Digital Music Initiative getting cracked — possibly sooner than it should be — then read the hundreds of Slashdot comments about the Salon story and its subject matter.

A CNN storytells about a group of hackers managed to break the so-called “world’s toughest code.” The story says,
“It took the Swedes the equivalent of 70 years of computer
time to decipher 10 increasingly difficult codes set by
author Simon Singh in his international bestseller ‘The
Code Book.'”

“The Internet’s oversight body has quietly changed its
own rules to give European leaders a new top-level
domain,”

says ZDNet.

Red Hat has take some hard knocks on Slashdot (and elsewhere) recently, so Bob Young wrote an open letter to Slashdot readers telling his side of a lot of the talk surrounding problems with the recent RH 7.0 release.

Atipa Corporation, an end-to-end
provider of Open Source and Linux solutions, announced today at the Linux
Atlanta Showcase the rollout of a new product line of Beowulf computational
clusters, the Ascendance series, from PRNewswire.

Demonstrating its considerable
clout, ZDNet eWeek reports, Intel Corp. is bringing together the leaders of
Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM, Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo
Inc. for an invitation-only “e-business summit” this week
to discuss its call for open standards, greater industry
cooperation and other critical issues — such as its
Itanium processor.

The Associated Press on Canoe reports,
the 12,000-square-foot center will provide a demonstration
platform for companies trying to decide between Microsoft-Intel
offerings and competing strategies from Sun Microsystems,
Oracle and Linux.

IBM, Open Avenue, developerWorks, and Software Magazine are holding an Open Source Seminar in NYC on November 15, 2000 at the Hilton New York, announced on the Open Avenue News and Events web page.