Author: JT Smith
Coordinated industry pressure may be required to make Microsoft ditch the lucrative policy which could in theory net the software giant up to $8 billion, says ZDCOUK.
Depth of field means true 3-D is on the horizon
Author: JT Smith
The makers of 3-D monitors that really fulfill their promise are certain it’s the new frontier for hooking PC users. The biggest obstacle is liable to be the price. By Andy Patrizio at Wired.com.
Category:
- Unix
Website to sell downloads of South Park
Author: JT Smith
Reuters on Excite says Sightsound.com has made a deal with Comedy Central and will offer episodes of the popular cartoon South Park for a fee. The company says the downloads offer a cheaper alternative to DVDs or VHS.
Newbie help file: distro primer
Author: JT Smith
A reader writes: “Here is a kinda basic, not too biased view on a few different distros. Maybe others can add to this and we can finally end the ‘what distro’ questions.” From Linuxnewbie.org.
Category:
- Linux
“We’re not Intel,” say bullish Asian chipmakers
Author: JT Smith
Acer and others predict growth and diversification, says Techweb.com.
Category:
- Unix
Is Microsoft “colluding” with NSA to allow backdoor access into apps?
Author: JT Smith
The National Security Administration gathers information on Internet traffic, especially in foreign countries. Now, some European nations are looking at open source solutions, says ZDCOUK.
Category:
- Linux
Your Palm is ringing
Author: JT Smith
From PCWorld.com:Palm and RealVision Technology have announced a telephony attachment device for the Palm V handheld device, enabling the PDA (personal digital assistant) to function like a mobile phone.
Global Center outages not DoS attack
Author: JT Smith
Major hosting service GlobalCenter suffered a 14-hour traffic jam last week on several of its sites, including the heavily used Telstra White and Yellow Pages sites, reports Australian site I.T.
Festival brings out more criticism of record labels
Author: JT Smith
The technology is here. The content is here. The consumers are here. But the major music labels aren’t ready to work with anyone other than themselves. Wired.com reports from Portland, Oregon.
Worry about the worm
Author: JT Smith
Fear the worm, says PCWorld.com. The computer worm, that is. That was the theme of a talk Symantec’s director of research, Stephen Trilling, gave to attendees at Dell Computer’s DirectConnect conference late last week.
Category:
- Linux