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Email takes much of our day

Author: JT Smith

Network World Fusion provides a series of suggestions on dealing with the increasing size and time-consumption involved in reading and responding to our email.

Category:

  • Linux

New coat to include embedded hardware

Author: JT Smith

PC World IDG is bringing us the story of the wearable jacket with built in cell phone and mp3 player, along with other current activities in the wearable computer markets.

Category:

  • Unix

British government to track citizens

Author: JT Smith

Privacy groups are concerned with UK government plans to track cell phone users whereabouts. ZDNet tells us more.

Anti-trust law scalability

Author: JT Smith

How do anti-trust laws relate to the modern economy? ZDNet explores the issue.

New DDoS attacks target chat servers and linux boxen

Author: JT Smith

ZDNet cautions of a recently discovered DDoS attack in “the wild”, a term to mean that it’s on the loose on the internet, which targets irc networks, and linux boxen.

Category:

  • Linux

Report: Sun needs to warm up to Linux

Author: JT Smith

Sun Microsystems Inc.’s decision not to embrace Linux with the same fervor as competitors IBM Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co. has sparked concern from at least one analyst firm that believes the company is making a mistake, reports TechWeb.

Category:

  • Linux

Web-controlled robot powered by Linux

Author: JT Smith

From a PR Newswire story about the iRobot Corporation multi-purpose domestic robot, which can be controlled through a web browser from anywhere in the world: The iRobot-LE is powered by iRobot Aware Robot Control Software running on a Pentium II class processor with an Apache-SSL web server and Linux Operating System. Priced about the same as a high-end notebook computer, the iRobot-LE is a fully functional mobile computer.

Market roundup: Intel hurts tech stocks, but VA up

Author: JT Smith

From a story about Monday’s tech stock action: VA Linux continued its momentous climb, up 1 9/16 to 61 1/4. (Disclosure: VA Linux owns NewsForge.)

Category:

  • Open Source

IBM to roll with Crusoe TM5400 ThinkPad

Author: JT Smith

IBM has demoed a Transmeta-based notebook, but officially the company isn’t committed to shipping it as a product. Naturally nobody actually believes this, and a blab today from Taiwanese notebook manufacturer Quanta Computer confirms that Big Blue will be rolling out quantities of the beasts, under the ThinkPad 240 X-series banner, by the end of the year, according to a story at The Register. More from Bloomberg.

Category:

  • Unix

Germany considers copyright fee

Author: JT Smith

According to a story from The Associated Press: Manufacturers of computer and telecommunications equipment could soon be required to pay fees to benefit authors and other copyright holders under a draft law being considered by the German government.