CNN.com has a feature about new gadgets at Comdex: “A company named Agenda was
demonstrating its VR3 handheld computer, which that
runs on the open-standard Linux operating system.
At present there are only about 20 applications for the
organizer, a problem the company hopes to address
with its recent launch of a software develop’s edition
for $179. A market launch is expected by March.”

For researchers and developers, the USENIX Conference on Object-Oriented Technologies and Systems (COOTS) is the conference of choice. With its emphasis on research, advanced engineering topics, and experimental systems, this intentionally small conference provides a cozy setting to meet and network with other leading researchers and developers and to get expert advice relevant to current project needs. The COOTS technical program is the venue for the serious examination of advanced R&D results from the foremost universities and industrial labs. COOTS offers a selection of excellent papers representing new directions in such topical areas as distributed objects, Java, and reflection and other programming. Usenix.org has more information

Announcing an essential one-day conference for IT professionals, product suppliers and system integrators to learn the benefits of the CDSA security infrastructure. Learn how to reduce the development time of security-enabled applications and eCommerce solutions. Learn about “plug and play” cryptography. Learn why Apple, Bull, Caldera, Compaq, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Intel, Mytec, SAFLINK, SuSE, TESI, TurboLinux and other leading industry players have adopted CDSA; the only open sourced, cross-platform, extensible and interoperable security infrastructure. Speak with the experts and get answers to your questions from a diverse group of leading solutions providers.
The event will be Thursday, Nov. 30, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Charles de Gaulle Airport, Paris. The agenda and registration information is available from opengroup.org.
–Lelia Barlow

From a Reuters story posted to CNET News.com: “China has mandated that only a handful of domestic companies may assign Chinese-language Internet addresses, striking a blow to the registration service launched last week by U.S.-based VeriSign.”

Updates for BIND, openssh, openssh-clients, and openssh-server are now available for Trustix Secure Linux. More information from Help Net Security.

“Bulls and penguins don’t play together very often. At Comdex this week, however, Groupe Bull SA and Penguin Computing Inc. did a Linux tango when the two companies announced a partnership to sell Linux systems in the European market.” IDG News reports.

In a press release at PRWeb, Teamware Group announced the availability of a 90-day evaluation version of Teamware Office 5.3 for Linux. Billed as a “ready-to-run groupware product with customizable interface and state-of-the-art communications,” the program is available on the Mandrake-Linux 7.2 CD-ROM and Teamware’s Web site.

From a Computerworld report: “Uecomm Limited and Ericsson Australia have deployed the first commercial new-generation Internet standard network (Internet Protocol version 6 – IPv6) across Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. A spokesperson for Uecomm, Clare Laffan, said the network will be offered to all customers with an expected 750 companies on board by the end of 2001.”

A remote input validation vulnerability in the DCForum CGI script has been fixed. Details at Help Net Security.

In issue 56 of the Linux Gazette, Jim Dennis gives an overview of Linux e-mail software and protocols.