Author: JT Smith
From PCWorld.com:Palm and RealVision Technology have announced a telephony attachment device for the Palm V handheld device, enabling the PDA (personal digital assistant) to function like a mobile phone.
Global Center outages not DoS attack
Author: JT Smith
Major hosting service GlobalCenter suffered a 14-hour traffic jam last week on several of its sites, including the heavily used Telstra White and Yellow Pages sites, reports Australian site I.T.
Festival brings out more criticism of record labels
Author: JT Smith
The technology is here. The content is here. The consumers are here. But the major music labels aren’t ready to work with anyone other than themselves. Wired.com reports from Portland, Oregon.
Worry about the worm
Author: JT Smith
Fear the worm, says PCWorld.com. The computer worm, that is. That was the theme of a talk Symantec’s director of research, Stephen Trilling, gave to attendees at Dell Computer’s DirectConnect conference late last week.
Category:
- Linux
The ‘official’ celeb site racket
Author: JT Smith
CelebSites.com wants to be the premier source for official celebrity websites, and counts among its A-list stars like Gwyneth Paltrow and Mel Gibson. Conveniently enough, CelebSites also happens to own hundreds of stars’ domain names, according to a story at Wired.com.
Microsoft covets seat at high-end Unix table
Author: JT Smith
PCWorld.com reports that, in the continuing quest to move higher into the enterprise data center, Microsoft next week will launch its .NET family of enterprise servers, including Windows 2000 Datacenter Server, the company’s most powerful server operating system yet.
Mac OS X has Unix-derived directory structure
Author: JT Smith
New MacWeek story says that each user will have his own desktop under the new release, and they’re about as far from root as you can get.
New open source privacy software stores personal data
Author: JT Smith
Extensible Name Service technology allows web users to dictate what information online companies receive, reports SiliconValley.com.
Category:
- Linux
Fujitsu shuns Intel for its laptops
Author: JT Smith
Despite the release of three new processors today (see story below), Intel is losing Fujitsu to Transmeta. Fujitsu announced that it is selecting Transmeta processors because they appear to double battery life, reports Bloomberg.
Category:
- Unix
Three new laptop processors debut today
Author: JT Smith
Bloomberg reports that busy hardware king Intel is not resting on its laurels in competition with Transmeta. The news chips run at 850 MHz, 800 MHz, and 700 MHz.
Category:
- Unix