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The aftershocks of last week’s LinuxWorld Expo are still reverberating chez Somogyi. From ZDNN.

Doug Wright is the software engineer porting BIAS’ Peak application to the BeOS. BeOS Central interviews him on porting Peak and working with the BeOS.

From ComputerWorld.com: Sprint PCS rolled out a suite of wireless services and products for corporate
users, including access to Exchange and Lotus Notes e-mail, corporate travel sites, sales force
automation tools and corporate directories.

From PRNewswire.com: Scientific Learning Corporation (Nasdaq: SCIL) today announced that it plans
to seek early dismissal of a class action lawsuit filed against the Company
and certain of its corporate officers.

The overselling of all things internet is leaving
consumers frustrated, cynical and wary,
experts warn. From BBC News.

The Register claims, “The undercurrent of dislike between Intel and Sun, which boiled over into an
unseemly row at the last Intel Developer Forum, now seems to have turned into a
full-scale battle.”

The story says, “Students returning to MIT this fall will notice that Information Systems has made several changes to the Athena computing environment, including a powerful new e-mail system, the official introduction of Redhat Athena boxes in the clusters, and a new release of Athena.”

“It’s official,” says a zdnet.co.uk story,”we love our PCs and cannot bear to be parted from them.”

L.A. Times columnist Charles Piller lauds Linux and Eazel and talks of how they may soon make computing easier, not harder. (Link is to www.nandotimes.com reprint of Piller’s column.)

News.com reports: “Microsoft is investigating complaints that its MSN Instant Messenger usernames and contact lists can be taken over through
lapsed Hotmail accounts.”