Linux PR: Easy Software Products today announced the 1.1.3 release of the Common UNIX Printing System (“CUPS”), an IPP/1.1-based printing system for UNIX.

Thanks to the availability of the XFree 4.x software package and the
NVIDIA open source video card driver, now gamers can enjoy the ultimate gaming experience under Linux, reports Linux PR.

CNet News reports, in a surprise move, a House subcommittee late last night voted to bar federal regulators from imposing any fees on Internet traffic, including voice services.

Macadamian Technologies Inc., a provider of eBusiness and Linux solutions, today announced that the Syndeo Collaboration Suite 2.1 is now IBM Netfinity ServerProven, and now fully supports IBM’s WebSphere Application Server and DB2 Universal Database on the RS/6000
platform, from Canada NewsWire.

Java World reports on new client-side technologies bringing Java apps out of the Web and onto the desktop.

Reuters on ZDNet: Apple Computer Inc. on Monday became the first company to license Amazon.com’s 1-Click technology, a coveted and controversial process that vastly simplifies online shopping.

After the merger, Cobalt, whose server appliances run on
Linux, will become the server appliance business unit of Sun’s
Network Service Provider organization, reports ZDNet.

255,000 Auckland telephone service subscribers are part of a brand-new reverse directory that a group of pHrEaKs are threatening to publish on the Internet. From a report at the New Zealand Herald.

The much maligned music industry is calling for crackers to vie for a chance at $10,000, to be split among those who are able to dismantle any of a number of new technologies designed to protect digital music. The editor of Linux Journal has called for a boycott of the contest, which he says is using contestants as a ‘free consulting service,’ according to a report at ZDNET.

Not only that, according to a story at NandoTimes.com, but the mega-portal is adding insult to injury and forging a partnership with Amazon rival Barnesandnoble.com.