The Korean Herald announces, an international forum to explore the future of the wireless Internet and Linux technology will be held in Seoul Thursday.

PRNewswire: eSoftBank.com Inc. the global software e-marketplace, just announced
the launch of one of its newly conceived products: Strategy E*Linux, including Linux Configuration Center and Powermail.

Wired News reports, the Gnutella Next Generation development team announced on Friday that they are developing a new open source technology for search engines.

Freenet 0.3 has been released, improvements include encryption, subspaces, improved datastore behaviour, and a whole host of architectural and reliability improvements, from Freenet Project homepage.

ZDNet News article suggests, the more powerful use of peer-to-peer networking – individual computers exchanging data without a central server – may be to combine the processing power of thousands of networked PCs to create a virtual supercomputer.

Don’t hire virus writers, give ’em thirty days in the hole. That’s where Chen Ing-hau is headed, according to this report from Newsbytes.com.

If you’re a world traveler you may have your mobile phone configured for multi-national communications. But crackers can make your phone think its somewhere its not in order to bypass encryption, says ZDNet.

It’s just a funny page. A hoax. The ‘Microsoft Invades Cuba’ news headline ought to be a tipoff, despite the site’s careful aping of a real Microsoft.com page. And if that isn’t enough, check the bottom, where it says,
“MS Linux is released under the
provisions of the Gates Private
License, which means you can
freely use this Software on a
single machine without warranty
after having paid the purchase
price and annual renewal fees.”

It’s just a funny page. A hoax. The ‘Microsoft Invades Cuba’ news headline ought to be a tipoff, despite the site’s careful aping of a real Microsoft.com page. And if that isn’t enough, check the bottom, where it says,
“MS Linux is released under the
provisions of the Gates Private
License, which means you can
freely use this Software on a
single machine without warranty
after having paid the purchase
price and annual renewal fees.”

“piffy” and friends are trying to make a name for themselves in cyberspace. But should they be calling themselves Unix programmers, as this Newsbytes report claims they do?