Author: JT Smith
Interesting Wired story talks about online (primarily corporate) training and its 80% dropout rate, asks whether most online courses are worth the pixels on which they’re printed.
Category:
- Linux
Wired reports on Burning Man
Author: JT Smith
Wired correspondent Declan McCullagh’s latest on-the-spot report from the Burning Man festival now being held near Black Rock City, Nevada.
Category:
- Linux
Salon worries about Michael Dell selling his Dell stock
Author: JT Smith
The PC wunderkind is on a selling spree — $2.5 billion worth of his company stock in less than two years, says this Salon story, which asks if this means Dell has lost confidence in Dell or is just broadening his investment portfolio.
Category:
- Open Source
Microsoft claims new MSN is not AOL knockoff
Author: JT Smith
Despite similarities to AOL, MS claims the new MSN Explorer service is not the same, but is much better than AOL. CNet story.
Is WAP a flop?
Author: JT Smith
Wired article ruminates about whether Japanese (proprietary) I-mode cell phone and handheld device Internet access may not be superior to (open) WAP protocol.
Defensive corporate deals in Silicon Valley
Author: JT Smith
Interesting dissection of a recent acquistion deal between Applied Micro Circuits and MMC Networks. The lessons in the article apply to all kinds of companies, including those that live on Open Source. Scott Herbold’s column @ SiliconValley.com
Category:
- Open Source
Linux distribution commentaries
Author: JT Smith
The latest news about Linux distributions (in general) from lwn.net. Covers Debian (including the well-reported 2.2 security glitches), minilinux, Laonux, Leetnux, Linux/Coldfire, Rabid Squirrel Linux, and others.
Category:
- Linux
Open3 integrates Jabber open source instant messaging
Author: JT Smith
LinuxPr.com press release states that Open3.org (www.open3.org) has
announced the completion of Jabber integration into its Open3 e-Business
integration platform.
announced the completion of Jabber integration into its Open3 e-Business
integration platform.