Slashdot: “AnandTech has posted a story about AMD’s new Athlon 4
processor and also included some information about Silicon on Insulator
transistors in their article. SOI technology has been used by IBM in recent
history and AMD will begin using it in 2002.”

Shocking, but true: A patent organization doesn’t believe that Amazon ever had a lock on “one click” online shopping. Japan’s patent office notified the Seattle-based Internet retailer last November that it had reason to reject its patent. The office found evidence that others had the idea and concept of “one click” long before Amazon did. The company has a few days left to respond before that patent is rejected. Full story at IDG.net.

PC World reports on a new monitor that could give users a more in-depth computing experience. The new displays give the illusion of depth, but without the cumbersome and headache-inducing set of goggles currently required for three-dimensional computer imaging.

ZDNet covers yet another setback for 3G mobile phones. This time around, British Telecom delayed the launch of its 3G services due to glitches with NEC’s handsets.

From Help Net Security: “PHProjekt is an open source groupware suite written in PHP4… by adding the famous “..” string to the url one can have access to other
directories than the one which is specified in the config.”

From a Businesswire press release: “Caldera International Inc. (Nasdaq: CALD), Monday announced the acquisition of
the assets of the WhatifLinux technology from Acrylis Inc.
WhatifLinux technology provides Open Source users and system administrators with Internet-delivered tools and services for faster,
more reliable software management. As a result of the acquisition, Caldera will extend its Linux management solution, Caldera Volution
(Volution), to include online software management. The solution will be named Volution Online.”

From KDE News: “Various people have been asking how to configure fonts with the new Xft
extension, which enables AA fonts, among other things. This is a short tutorial on
how to configure the new Xft extension.”

ZDNet Interactive Week released a flock of Open Source stories this week. Here’s a quick rundown on each one:– Does openness help or hurt? – Is open code a help or a hindrance? That, of course, depends entirely upon who you talk to about that subject.

— Finding profit in partnership – Business and Open Source does indeed mix, as this profile of Open Source companies, including Red Hat, Digital Creations, Lutris Technologies, an CollabNet attests.

— Open Source code: A corporate building block – “If it’s developed n a volunteer basis, it’s free, and support depends on an appeal to an invisible crowd, how can it be any good?” That’s the phrase that’s heard less often around IT departments these days as Linux becomes a mainstay of many server rooms.

— Open options – Linux and Apache are far from the only Open Source success stories. What about OpenNMS, Tomcat, Velocity, and Zope? They’re all covered, briefly, in this column.

— Ulterior motives – “At first glance, the work seems so noble. After late nights and long hours, bleary-eyed programmers take their valuable code and toss it onto the Internet as a gift to the world. The ultimate sacrifice? Not exactly.”

From a press release at Yahoo: “Caldera International Inc. (Nasdaq: CALD – news),
the only company “Unifying UNIX with Linux for Business,” Monday announced the launch of the Caldera
Developer Network.

Caldera developers, including Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), Independent Hardware Vendors
(IHVs), corporate in-house developers and members of the Open Source developer community, will have
early access to UNIX and Linux technologies, allowing them to develop on UNIX, on Linux or on a
combined UNIX and Linux platform.”

As ZDnet Interactive Week’s Charles Babcock points out, Linux and Apache are far from the only Open Source success stories. What about OpenNMS, Tomcat, Velocity, and Zope? They’re all covered, briefly, in this column.