ZDNET: “In its usual fashion, Sony dumped a whole slew of product
announcements on us this week, including 22 new configurations of
VAIO desktops and notebooks. Our Reviews team is still scrambling
to test the most noteworthy of these–stay tuned for full reviews andIn its usual fashion, Sony dumped a whole slew of product
announcements on us this week, including 22 new configurations of
VAIO desktops and notebooks. Our Reviews team is still scrambling
to test the most noteworthy of these–stay tuned for full reviews and
tests results. But buried in these announcements was some
interesting news about wireless networking, combo DVD/CD-R/RW
drives, and digital video recorders (DVRs) that will soon become
mainstream features of PCs.”

Advogato: “I’m working on my PhD and yes it’s about Open Source and a particular theory of strategic management (the resource-based view). I was hoping a few of you interested souls would read my short draft introduction and hopefully make some comments. Unfortunately, being an introduction, it doesn’t get into the heart of the issues raised.”

Slashdot: “James Cho writes: “Four days ago, the 2nd public release of the NSA’s ‘security-enhanced’ version of Linux (it’s not an entire
distribution) came out. The NSA describes it as having ‘a strong, flexible mandatory access control architecture incorporated
into the major subsystems of the kernel”. However it must be noted that this ‘is not intended as a complete security solution
for Linux’ and that there is ‘still much work needed to develop a complete security solution’.”

CNET: “On Monday, the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based chipmaker will usher in a 1.1GHz Duron processor for the value segment of
the PC market. The chip will match the speed of Intel’s 1.1GHz Celeron, but benchmark testers have stated that the
Duron could be a better overall value.”

Kelly McNeill writes: “Newly assigned U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly on Friday ordered both sides in the long-running Microsoft antitrust case to enter into intensive settlement negotiations to resolve their four-year battle prior to the start of hearings on potential sanctions against the software giant. In a status hearing Friday, Judge Kollar-Kotelly told government and Microsoft lawyers that they have until November 2nd to strike an agreement. Otherwise, she said, hearings will begin in March on the sanctions to be placed on Microsoft for antitrust violations.”

Wired: “For years, cartographers and designers have tried to help by creating maps of cyberspace.

The results have been mixed, but now the fruits of their labors have been collected in a handsome
new coffee-table book, the Atlas of Cyberspace.

Written by a pair of British academics, this large-format, full-color book brings together some of the
most breathtaking visualizations of virtual worlds.”

PCWorld: “Undeterred by a sluggish economy and slumping PC sales, Intel is unveiling 12 new mobile processors Monday–including its fastest, which hits 1.2 GHz. Also new
is an improved mobile chip set with integrated graphics that Intel says will rival some standalone products.

Dell and Toshiba plan to use the new chips in upcoming notebooks. Intel says all of the major notebook makers will begin using one or more of the new chips in
notebooks they ship Monday or in the coming weeks.”

Kelly McNeill writes: “Few businesses on the Internet can honestly say that they have not been affected by the Nimda worm in one form or another. There has been a lot of talk throughout the technology world lately about solutions that could stop — or at least stifle — the ongoing problem of computer worms. And now, a solution that a majority of osOpinion readers have been advocating for a long time has hit the mainstream tech world. A recently published Gartner Group report recommends that computing variety is the way to go.”

Ian Bell writes: “Designtechnica does a feature on Digital Jewelry. Imagine wearing your cell phone? The receiver is worn as earrings, the microphone as a ring. All connected without wires using bluetooth technology. This Digital Jewelry could be coming soon. This new technology really shocked me, I mean this is the stuff straight out of movies like Mission Impossible and James Bond. So the next time you see a person that looks like they are talking to themselves, remember it could be Digital Jewelry.”

Law.com: “Renowned San Francisco defense attorney John
Keker has agreed to represent indicted Russian
computer programmer Dmitry Sklyarov on a pro
bono basis.

Keker’s decision to represent Sklyarov, believed to
be one of the first to be criminally charged under
the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, could put an
end to speculation that a plea deal is in the works.”