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Four keys on the latest Apple Pro keyboards won’t work properly with Macs shipped prior to July 19; Apple is offering refunds or order cancellations. Details at MacCentral Online.

The Duke of URL reviews Gentus v3, the latest Abit repackaging of Red Hat Rawhide with additional Abit features. Covered are pros and cons of Gentus, what is new in v3, installation, and how Abit has address the GPL problems with earlier releases.

IBM DeveloperWorks has a very detailed article on the changes in the forthcoming 2.4 Linux Kernel.

It was announced today that an “easy” installer for PHP v4 on Windows has been released. This allows people to setup a PHP/Apache server on a Windows-based workstation more easily, allowing them to develop and test solutions at their desks.

Slashdot reports that the European Union is objecting to the recent AOL and Time-Warner merge. The EU says that the result is too powerful, and could harm consumers.

Austin360.com reports on Amazon.com’s recent privacy policy change, as well as past privacy issues Amazon has faced.

Qbizm technologies, Inc. is happy to announce a HyperQbs alpha developer portal for free downloads and alpha testing of the new Java2EE and XML based HyperQbs technology.
HyperQbs defines the “write once, view anywhere” architecture solving the technology gap, which forces developers to rewrite their internet application each time a new display enters the market (different HTML browsers, WAP, PDAs, multimedia, PDF, e-mail clients, messaging — even microwave ovens, cars and other new devices yet to come).

“Java brought the market the ‘write once, run anywhere’ concept. The marriage of HyperQbs and Java makes a true revolution in internet software engineering resulting in ‘write once, run and view anywhere’. This not only simplifies the life of internet application developers and operators, but also delivers freedom, cuts down the costs and speeds up development and deployment in internet applications dramatically” said Peter K. Ulrich, CEO of Qbizm technologies, Inc.

“If you are a Java developer who is tired of the hassles associated with today’s approach to ‘website’ or better to say ‘internet application’ development. Also if you are fed up with the chewing-gum-glue-it-together approach resulting in spaghetti code and HTML mixtures rather than serious software engineering, then the HyperQbs innovative component-ware technology is right for you.” said Rene Michalek, Chief developer at Qbizm technologies, Inc.

HyperQbs technology is a successor of Servlets and JSP allowing complete separation of the work between programmers and web designers, enables team work, prototyping and incremental application life-cycle development of sophisticated internet applications with reusable plug-in components, called Qbs [read: Cubes].

Qbizm technologies, Inc. is in preparation to release the whole HyperQbs technology to open-source in the near future.

Let the Qbs roll . . .

Issued by the Press office of Qbizm technologies, Inc. at Saturday, 2 September 2000

For more information refer to:
Qbizm technologies, Inc.
Kralovopolska 139, BRNO
Czech Republic
+420 602 711 890
press@qbizm.com
www.qbizm.com
www.hyperqbs.org
–pulrich

In a talk with Reuters displayed by The Standard, Lycos CEO Bob Davis boasts that his company’s business model keeps it safe from any softening in the online advertising marketplace.

The combined total of Internet users in Europe and Asia is now larger than the total number of US users, according to globetechnology.com, but 78% of all Web sites, and 96% of ecommerce sites are still in English.