Businessweek explains why Apple should not go back into the handheld market in spite of releasing the first handheld computer in 1993, known as the Newton.

Imhotep writes “Once in awhile, there comes a game that will actually take the gaming world by its horns, jerk it around a little, and then promptly set it down for a good talking-to. There are also games that simply sit out, and watch the rest of the gaming world do its thing. The former is the case with Loki’s latest port, MindRover. Check out Woody Hughes’ take as he sits down with his keyboard and trackball for the ultimate brainiac funfest.

The full review is here at MaximumLinux.org”

Australian IT reports on Intel’s take on the PC market slowdown, and the triple whammy of slowing demand, economic slowdown, and the aftermath from the fears of the much discussed Y2K bug.

From LinuxPR: After an extensive beta period, AxKit.com have released version
1.4 of their powerful application server framework, AxKit. AxKit 1.4 includes
many usability improvements, performance enhancements, and hundreds of bug
fixes. This release marks a major enhancement to AxKit portability, allowing it to
work on all major Unix platforms from Linux and FreeBSD to Sun Solaris and
IBM AIX. AxKit 1.4 is also known to work on Windows NT.

From InternetWire:
A group of leading companies,
consortia, and open source projects today announced the formation of the WBEMsource initiative,
a collaboration of major industry players with the goal of improving the manageability of large scale
WBEM implementation. The new group will work to define and promote an open source enterprise
management environment based on the Distributed Management’s Task Force’s (DMTF) WBEM
standards.

At LinuxPR: Linux NetworX, a leading
provider of powerful and easy-to-manage Linux cluster computing solutions,
announced today support through its Evolocity cluster systems for the new
AMD Athlon MP processor and the AMD-760 MP multiprocessing
chipset. Evolocity is a complete turnkey cluster solution, which incorporates
computational hardware with Linux NetworX cluster management software
called ClusterWorX.

EET.com has a story about politics going on in design automation and how Open Source is involved. “While the Open SystemC Initiative (OSCI) struggles with
turmoil amidst accusations of possible antitrust violations, a quieter C
language standards effort — the SpecC Technology Open Consortium —
took a step forward this week when the University of California at Irvine
released an open-source version of a SpecC reference compiler and
simulator.”

From LinuxPR: Envenergy, a developer of hardware, software
and networking solutions, introduced the Multi-Protocol Exchange (MPX). The
MPX is an embedded Linux system that offers a comprehensive set of
capabilities including gateway functionality, routing, processing, firewalling,
extensive input/output, data acquisition, and control – all within a single compact
unit. The MPX acts as the Facility Systems Agent within a building, allowing
facility managers, system integrators, and service providers to create an
intelligent and manageable network out of different building systems (HVAC,
lighting, access control) and devices (meters, on-site generators).

Wired.com profiles Bill Joy, Sun’s chief scientist as a “big thinker.” More from the story: “As he’s been doing for a few months now — when he talks to peer-to-peer and open-source
loving conferences — on Wednesday Joy again described JXTA: It’s a ‘core architecture’ written
in the cross-platform Java language that allows developers to easily build distributed applications.” More from CNet.

From LinuxPR: After 90 days of intense development Open Docs Publishing is now accepting
preorders for their book titled, PostgreSQL: The Elephant Never Forgets.