Employees at Verizon, the company created by the merger of Bell Atlantic and GTE, remain on strike, affecting telephone service from Maine to Virginia.

IBM’s prototype PDA watch running Linux is discussed in greater detail on Thestandard.com. The piece discusses current limitations of the prototype, and IBM’s future plans for marketting the device.

Embedded Linux running on a StrongArm processor will be used to power a new generation of golf course management equipment, according to this press release on Linuxpr.com

HP is expanding is Linux plans, as reported by CNET. These changes included ensuring they use supported devices in their computers, helping Linuxcare product a PA-RISC port of the Linux kernel, and porting HP services software (such as OpenMail) to Linux.

The BSD Birds Of a Feather announced the group will meet during Linux World Aug. 16. (As posted to BSDi announce mailing list.) Representatives from FreeBSD, BSD/OS, and the Darwin group will attend, and it is hoped that individuals from NetBSD and OpenBSD will also be there.

From
The Register: “Anti-virus software developer Sophos has been accused of spreading fear, uncertainty and doubt over the safety of Linux systems by UK pro-open source organisation NetProject.”

Do you sometimes want to smash the cell phone of the guy who just cut you off on the freeway? From phonebashing.com: “It was not by chance that we came to be doing what we are now doing. We have been looking for a fiendish project to get our teeth in to for the past six months. A friend who works for a lighting company, that shall remain nameless,informed us that he was working on a video shoot for an anti mobile phone song. He also let us know that the main characters in the video would be wearing man-size mobile phone suits. After an evening of heavy drinking a plan was hatched and all concerned decided that this was a cause worth fighting for.”

A home-made propeller plane made an emergency landing on a truck in Oregon, Friday.

A program called Aimster allows AIM users to search for files on AOL, the Microsoft Network, and Gnutella, Salon.com reports.

A CNET story: “Despite efforts to shore up computer security, the Environmental Protection Agency is still an open target for hackers, according to congressional investigators.

“A report released today by the General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of Congress, found that the agency’s system continues to be ‘riddled with security weaknesses’ that could allow hackers to tamper with data, view sensitive information or attack other agencies using the EPA system.”