Blurb at PCWeek begins, “Lucent Technologies’s Microelectronics Group has reached an
agreement with PacketVideo to integrate streaming video into
next generation mobile devices, the companies said this week.”

According to a FairfaxIT article, Monash University professor Liz Kendall is excited by new networking and ‘Internet appliance’ possibilities, but also worries that “… Australia is on the brink of missing out on the lucrative windfalls because of Federal
Government funding policies that discriminate against popular IT courses.”

A group of self-styled Internet visionaries got together over the weekend in Emeryville, California at an event unsurprisingly called the Festival
for New Media Visionaries. Wired was there.

LinuxToday.au asks whether Compaq is pro-Linux or a creature of Windows. On one hand, there’s Alpha and some very nice Linux support in some of Compaq’s divisions. On the other hand, they have a tight relationship with Microsoft. On the gripping hand, Compaq is supporting Gnome like mad. Read the article, draw your own conclusions.

“Sometimes a Linux geek just wants to have fun,” says this cute Wired piece about Linux getting more game-y lately. The paradigm of using Linux for work and Windows for play seems to be changing; before long, according to the article, that leftover Windows partition used only for games may not be necessary.

A prnewswire press release boasts, “The 2000 Summer Olympics marks the first time that China’s population will
be able to view such comprehensive coverage live on the Internet.”

BBC story about UK Prime Minister Tony Blair’s plans to implement his promise that everyone in the UK “from football fans to the homeless” will have Internet access in five years.

AsiaBizTech says, “According to the world’s top six IC study institutions, the
global production value of dynamic random access memory chips is likely to reach US$48.8
billion in 2001, up 54.5 percent year-on-year.”

“A Linux internationalization meeting was held on Aug. 29 at
the Beijing Trader Hotel, the first such meeting in China.

The goal of this conference, referred to as “Li18nux Adhoc Meeting in Beijing,” is to recognize
the importance of Linux internationalization and to study an internationalization method for
Linux. The meeting was also participated in by a Japanese delegation, and there were heated
discussions.” according to AsiaBizTech.

In an ironic twist, a startup funded heavily by former Netscape CEO Jim Barksdale and staffed heavily by former Microsoft developers and executives is building new Web server infrastructure tools — using open standards and Linux. Learn more about the new company, Crossgain, from CNet.