Amazon’s new privacy regs may backfire

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September 5, 2000

Author: JT Smith

The Register surmises that with Amazon.com’s updated corporate manifesto, consumers have no reason to expect any such thing as privacy while doing business on their Web site.

BT considers legal action over hyperlink patent

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September 5, 2000

Author: JT Smith

According to The Register, British Telecommunications is prepared to take legal action against ISPs in the US unless they cough up cash for using hyperlinks.

Microsoft, IBM creating business-to-business software standard

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September 5, 2000

Author: JT Smith

The Bloomberg News is reporting, the standard would be publicly available and open to improvement by other software developers, a general policy long advocated by IBM but, until now, not by Microsoft.

MaxOS Linux Operating System now available

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September 5, 2000

Author: JT Smith

Alta Terra Ventures Corp. announced today that the MaxOS Linux operating system is now available for consumer purchase through the company’s online e-store at www.maxos.com, from Canadian NewsWire.

AMD pumps up the volume

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September 5, 2000

Author: JT Smith

AMD today introduced the 750MHz AMD Duron processor, once again
setting the standard for business and home users in the value PC space, reports AMDZone.

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Unix

An introduction to the Cygnus Tree

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September 5, 2000

Author: JT Smith

This article from the International Free Computing Task Force answers the question “What is the Cygnus tree?”

Inprise/Borland releases JBuilder 4

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September 5, 2000

Author: JT Smith

PRNewswire announces the release of JBuilder 4, the only enterprise productivity environment that supports Enterprise Java Bean 1.1 compliant development on Windows, Linux, and Solaris platforms.

Stallman on the GPLing of Qt and more

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September 5, 2000

Author: JT Smith

Linux Today article concerning making Qt available under the GPL and the affects on the free software community.

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Open Source

Internet data gain is a major power drain in Seattle

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September 5, 2000

Author: JT Smith

Seattle P-I.com reports that the Exodus
plant will consume enough power for a small town and eventually house Internet
servers for firms such as Avenue A, Microsoft and Onvia.com.

nVidia wants it all

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September 5, 2000

Author: JT Smith

ZDCOUK.com reports that, while a recent patent infringement suit filed against 3Dfx has
heated things up a little and nVidia’s involvement in Microsoft’s
Xbox project is a definite coup, it’s the firm’s decision to go after
alternative markets that could well be the decisive blow.