ComputerWorld: “Big Blue is decidedly upbeat as it makes a series of announcements on wireless and mobile technologies, despite admissions that U.S. customers want proof that wireless projects will be productive in harder economic times.”

Wired: “Max Butler lived three lives for five years.

As “Max Vision,” he was an incredibly skilled hacker and security expert who boasted that he’d never met a computer system he couldn’t crack.

As “The Equalizer,” he was an FBI informant, reporting on the activities of hackers who considered him a colleague and, in some cases, a friend.”

The Dot: “A second beta of KOffice-1.1 is now available. The improvements since the first beta are considerable,
particularly in KWord. If you are looking for a stable and full-featured word processor under Linux, give it
a try! This release also features improved filter support throughout the suite including better MS Word and
MS Excel support, and a new Quatro Pro filter.”

Wired: “Last Friday, a consortium of more than 100 content and technology companies called the Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI) failed to reach a consensus on
a screening application that would enable media players to distinguish between secure and unsecure files.”

ZDNET: “Online vandals intent on lashing out at companies and rivals stage denial-of-service
attacks more than 4,000 times every week, researchers from the University of California
at San Diego said Tuesday.”

Yahoo: “It’s all yours–Big Blue will set up one of its powerful 10-processor zSeries mainframe systems as an open-access ‘virtual server’ for people to explore and develop Linux tools.”

MSNBC: “Opening a Corel WordPerfect document in Microsoft Word
2002 may cause the WordPerfect Graphics Import 8.0 dialog
box to pop up which in turn may hang Word. At the time of this
writing, neither a fix or workaround was available to counter the
Word file converter’s inability to convert some WordPerfect
Graphics files embedded in WordPerfect documents.”

ComputerWorld: “According to the BSA, education and law enforcement have made the biggest dents in the areas where piracy fell.

In the U.S., for example, companies can be fined up to $150,000 for each piece of pirated software. “Clearly this not a traffic ticket,” said
Bob Kruger, BSA’s vice president of enforcement.

“They mistakingly think that if they’re caught, all they have to do is go out and do what they should have in the first place . . . buy legal
copies,” Kruger continued. “It can cost them two, three or four times as much as what would have cost to make sure software is fully
licensed.”

Observers.net: “AOL’s use of the Linux operating system marks the company’s introduction into the
world of open source technology. Until now, their success has largely come from a strict adherence to
using only propietary technology inside a closed online community.

This insistance by AOL on keeping outsiders out and insiders in caused concern in the
open source community when AOL bought Netscape in 1998.”

LinuxFR.org reports (in French) on the story of Mandrake and its executive shuffling, including an interview with Gal Duval. You can read it in English via Babelfish.