Ian Bell writes “Sony’s new MiniDV Camdorder can connect to the internet without a PC. Using Bluetooth technology, the network adapter plugs into the phone line and the camcorder wirelessly connects to the internet. You can send pictures through the internet and even surf the web using the LCD display on the camcorder and an 8mb Sony media stick. More information can be found here and a picture of the camcorder can be found here.”

CNet has this Gartner commentary: “The reporting and collaboration features of VA Linux’s
SourceForge Enterprise Edition will help managers gain better
insight into application development projects done in highly
distributed environments.” (VA owns NewsForge.)

CNet reports that Casio will launch a new Transmeta-based laptop in Japan on Nov. 21 with a
hardware switch that lets consumers choose to boot Linux or Windows XP.

LinuxSecurity Contributor writes, “After many months of work, Hal Burgiss has finished the first version of his very thorough
Linux Security Quick-Start Guides. LinuxSecurity.com speaks with Hal about his documents
and Linux security.”
http://www.linuxsecurity.com/feature_stories/feature_story-93.html.

“IBM’s view of Linux is smart. The ‘development agenda’ is set around new markets that IBM is eager to move into. For instance, Frye says that the majority of new web
applications and e-commerce sites run on Linux. In this particular instance, IBM stands to gain substantially by the increased sales of its WebSphere application server product
and DB2 database. By fine tuning the operating system and stimulating community development, IBM can confidently offer Linux as the third prong in a WebSphere, DB2
solution.” More at australia.internet.com.

IDG: “Gmate Co. Ltd. plans to put on sale its long-awaited Linux-based PDA (personal digital assistant) in December, the company announced at
Comdex Fall.

The Yopy PDA made its first public appearance at the CeBIT trade show in Germany last year and at the time the company said it was aiming to launch the
product in late 2000, although an ongoing development project with Linux programmers around the world led to the delay of the commercial launch.”

ZDNET: “Microsoft has no plans to alter its existing measures to detect illegal pirating of Windows XP in
Australia despite the seizure of around 3,200 illegal copies of the company’s latest operating
system in raids across Singapore late last month.”

LinuxSecurity: “A vulnerability in a component of a graphical user interface currently shipping with several commercial Unix systems could let a
malicious attacker take administrative control of an affected host system.”

scann writes: “See Press Release.”

14-Nov-01 – Jcorporate Ltd. today unveils its Expresso 4.0 application
development framework, a major release which now includes integration with
the Apache Jakarta Struts Framework. This is exciting because Struts and Expresso are by far the
two most popular open source frameworks and comprise by estimates 85% of
the OSS Java application development framework community market. This integration
is important leap for Java developers utilizing either framework solution.

Expresso is the leading OSS Java application development framework, a foundation
set of reusable, standards-based Java software components designed to shorten
time-to-delivery of Web applications. Expresso is popular with more than
70,000 downloads and a large active listserv community of over 4000 members strong. Expresso is available today for download at http://www.jcorporate.com/product/expresso.html.

With Release 4.0, Expresso has further strengthened the power of shared industry open standard solutions with the integration of the Apache Jakarta Struts framework. By leveraging shared standards such as Java, JSP, Servlet,
XML, J2EE, Javamail, Cactus, Log4J, JUnit, XercesXalan, and Struts, Jcorporate empowers businesses to design and implement unique, adaptable, and unrestricted solutions that are independent of platform and application server.

Struts is an ideal complement to Expresso. Struts is a MVC light weight framework emphasizing presentation and application configuration,
and bringing a powerful tag library to Expresso. Expresso 4.0 is a powerful
and broad application development framework with components for developing
database-driven web
applications. Struts concentrates on specific areas of the application development
process, whereas Expresso adds capabilities for database-stored security, robust object-relational mapping, background
job handling and scheduling, self-tests, log4j logging integration, automated
table manipulation, database connection pooling, email connectivity, event
notification, caching, internationalization, XML automation, testing, registration
objects, configuration management, automatic database maintenance and on
and on.

With Release 4.0 Expresso has made Controller objects (the basic unit of business logic in Expresso) available to Struts as Actions, so the URL mapping, configuration, and other great capabilities of Struts are available – with all of the advantages that Expresso provides. Developers will be interested in Expresso if they need to communicate with databases often, don’t want to write their own security for servlets and actions, and need a lot of the hard work taken out of writing object to relational table mapping. Expresso also provides extensions to the internationalization capabilities of Struts, and simplifies the creation of Action objects (Controllers in Expresso) while at the same time providing additional capabilities that make creating business logic even easier. Expresso is about speeding time to market. The choice of UI is up to the developer with Expresso, and JSP, generated HTML, and XML with optional XSL tranformations are all supported. There’s even a built-in UI to interface with popular spreadsheet applications directly. If and when the client’s project scales to J2EE, the components are easy to scale up into this environment – Expresso’s
Database Objects can be deployed as CMP Entity EJB’s, and Controllers can
be extended into Stateless Session EJB’s. Struts is a perfect project
for Expresso to integrate with, as the two frameworks are parallel in design
techniques in the area of UI and presentation, yet with not much overlap.
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Debian.org: “Jeremy Andrews of KernelTrap spoke with Neal Walfield from the GNU/Hurd development team who is also a Debian developer working on the Hurd port.”