LinuxSecurity: “The Bush administration confirmed Monday that it will spend $10 million to launch a newly intensive war against cyber-terrorism, which many
government officials and terrorism experts consider a serious threat to national security with the potential for causing mass confusion and loss of life. As
evidence of the new emphasis on high-tech terrorism, the White House is expected to announce today the creation of a “cyber-security” office.”

Jason Perlow writes: “As announced previously, there will be a LINUX PDA focus group held in NJ on THIS Friday afternoon from 3PM-5PM at the North American headquarters of Sharp Electronics in Mahwah, NJ.

If you are interested in attending this event on such short notice please email me back with your personal contact information, including the following:

-Name

-Address

-Company/Organization

-Primary contact phone number

-primary contact email

-short paragraph outlining your programming/software developent experience

Each participant will recieve a check for $100 and a Sharp Zaurus developer kit which includes a Linux-based PDA. Refreshments and food will be served. The focus group will be videotaped and participants will be required to sign a non-disclosure agreemeent and participate on an on-line discussion group for several weeks following the meeting.

We have room for up to a dozen participants, we are looking specifically for those who have developed or program software for Linux, UNIX, Palm, Windows CE as well as for embedded systems. This includes academic programmers, open source project participants and students.

We will be holding additional focus group(s) in 2 to 3 weeks time, so if we can’t take you now, we should be able to accomodate you at that time.

Jason Perlow perlow@hotmail.com, perlow@linux-mag.com

(201)541-5454 (201)541-5664 fax (646)349-1324 eFax

350 Knickerbocker Road, Tenafly NJ 07670

Sr. Technology Editor, Linux Magazine
http://www.linux-mag.com“

Mac Observer: “Observer Steve Kroll points us to a device aimed at the education market that bears a striking resemblance to the ill-fated, but spectacularly cool, Apple eMate. The
device is called the Brainium DreamMax, seriously, and runs Windows CE, Microsoft’s OS for handhelds.”

CNET: “Pfizer, the world’s largest drug company, said Wednesday that it formed an alliance with Microsoft
and IBM to set up a new software and services company for doctors.”

SiliconValley: “In a move that has some privacy rights advocates concerned, the Pentagon is hoping to track down
terrorists with the help of a growing battery of computer software developed to combat consumer
and business fraud.”

PCWorld: “Fueled by word of mouth and more than a few young men, file swapping alternatives to Napster have experienced user growth of nearly 500 percent from March
to August of this year, according to a report released Wednesday by Jupiter Media Metrix.

Although free-file sharing pioneer Napster has been mired in legal battles and kept offline since last July for copyright infringement, its successors are clearly on
the rise. The number of unique home users of these file swapping alternatives have increased 492 percent, from 1.2 million in March to 6.9 million in August,
Jupiter reports.”

CNET: “British ISP Telewest has been the first to take direct action against customers who have refused to patch their
computers against the Nimda worm or have left infected PCs running. The company insists that these are “sensible”
measures to protect customers from malicious worms that are able to self-propagate across networks without user
intervention.”

Wired: “The House of Representatives hears hypothetical situations of cyber-terrorism from computer experts amidst concerns that the United States is not prepared.”

CNET: “The Digital Millennium Copyright Act–a revision to U.S. copyright laws–has taken a real beating recently,
thanks in large part to a high-profile case against a sympathetic computer programmer branded as a criminal
hacker.

Despite this case, the DMCA is, at least in part, a useful law that benefits e-commerce. The problem is that the DMCA
is a very lengthy law and many press accounts and Netizens have focused lately on only one portion of it, thereby
tarnishing the whole law as a legal mistake.”

PCWorld: “Streaming media provider RealNetworks plans to launch on Wednesday the final, non-test version of its RealArcade video game software, including a new online
game rental section that will serve as the largest test yet of a still-unproven delivery system.”