The Register has a story about a start-up company launching a Transmeta-based x86 tablet-notebook, which includes a separate screen as well as dictation and
handwriting recognition, at
the CeBit show in the U.K. later this week.

From PR Newswire: Tarantella, Inc., a wholly
owned subsidiary of The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOC), today
published the results of lengthy scalability testing on Tarantella Enterprise
3, their recently released, and most powerful to date, application
web-enabling software. The testing was performed in Houston at Compaq
(NYSE: CPQ) labs on industry-standard ProLiant servers.

TheStreet.com reports that Hewlett-Packard has introduced a series of new printers that offer users the
ability to access, manage and print information from the Internet. The printers will support Linux.

LinuxWorld.com has this story: “If you develop Java on Linux, there is a good chance that you use WebLogic. Discover the new
features in version 6.0 and find tips on installing, configuring and deploying that widely used server.”

The Australia version of LinuxToday reports that Red Hat is losing market share to SuSE. “A report released by PCdata, a company which reports on the popularity of different
pieces of software and hardware, showed that Suse Inc, primarily a European-based
distributor, has been making great inroads into the US GNU/Linux market. While Suse has
had a presence in the US marketplace for some time, it is only recently that it has been
seen to have such a large market influence.”

The Register has a story about USB ADSL modem maker Alcatel shipping a Linux driver.
“However, the company seems to have misunderstood just what the phrase ‘open
source’ actually means.

Alcatel’s driver allows Linux fans to use the company’s USB-based SpeedTouch
ADSL modem. In the UK, BT Ignite bundles that modem with the home ADSL
offering it sells through a variety of telcos, including BT’s own broadband operation,
BT Openworld.”

CNet reports that Mac OS X, which will be released Saturday, will not support
CD-rewritable, DVD or DVD-recording drives.

From LinuxPR: Lutris
Technologies Inc., a leading provider of application server technology for wired
and wireless development and deployment, today announced new targeted
wireless consulting services, new heterogeneous wireless client platform
support, and new enterprise hardware certifications for the Lutris Enhydra
Java/XML application server. With these consulting, training and product
offerings, Lutris customers and ISV partners enjoy a clear advantage in wireless
application development. Lutris continues to deliver on the promise of Enhydra:
an open platform that allows one application to easily talk to any device over any
protocol.

Newsbytes has a feature on Freenet: “Freenet has an offshoot, Espra.net, that is intended to function like a more secure Napster. But in
[founder Ian[ Clarke’s mind, Freenet stands for much more than just swapping music. It’s more than just
swapping the documents, films and images that also can be exchanged over the online platform. If
anything, Freenet is the online manifestation of Clarke’s deeply libertarian political viewpoint.”

From LinuxPR: Nemein Solutions and Hong Kong Linux
Center have formed partnership to provide services & support for HKLC’s
Nadmin Content Management System.

Nadmin is an user-friendly interface to the Open Source Midgard Content
Management Engine. Midgard provides organizations with cost-effective ways
of creating and maintaining their site in a controllable distributed environment.