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The Register’s take on MSN Explorer — and its built-in word processor

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Author: JT Smith

Biting Register commentary on Microsoft’s latest strategic move and why it is both evil (according to The Register) and (also according to The Register) a throwback to the company’s old, failed, dominate-the-Internet strategy.

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  • Open Source

Internet contributes to rise of identity theft, FTC says

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Author: JT Smith

The US Federal Trade Commission [FTC] says the Internet is part of the reason identity theft complaints have tripled in the last six month. Brief CNet story.

Report: Online training ‘boring’

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Author: JT Smith

Interesting Wired story talks about online (primarily corporate) training and its 80% dropout rate, asks whether most online courses are worth the pixels on which they’re printed.

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  • Linux

Wired reports on Burning Man

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Author: JT Smith

Wired correspondent Declan McCullagh’s latest on-the-spot report from the Burning Man festival now being held near Black Rock City, Nevada.

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  • Linux

Salon worries about Michael Dell selling his Dell stock

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Author: JT Smith

The PC wunderkind is on a selling spree — $2.5 billion worth of his company stock in less than two years, says this Salon story, which asks if this means Dell has lost confidence in Dell or is just broadening his investment portfolio.

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  • Open Source

Microsoft claims new MSN is not AOL knockoff

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Author: JT Smith

Despite similarities to AOL, MS claims the new MSN Explorer service is not the same, but is much better than AOL. CNet story.

Is WAP a flop?

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Author: JT Smith

Wired article ruminates about whether Japanese (proprietary) I-mode cell phone and handheld device Internet access may not be superior to (open) WAP protocol.

Defensive corporate deals in Silicon Valley

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Author: JT Smith

Interesting dissection of a recent acquistion deal between Applied Micro Circuits and MMC Networks. The lessons in the article apply to all kinds of companies, including those that live on Open Source. Scott Herbold’s column @ SiliconValley.com

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  • Open Source

Linux distribution commentaries

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Author: JT Smith

The latest news about Linux distributions (in general) from lwn.net. Covers Debian (including the well-reported 2.2 security glitches), minilinux, Laonux, Leetnux, Linux/Coldfire, Rabid Squirrel Linux, and others.

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  • Linux

Like standards, software licenses have nice features

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Author: JT Smith

Unlike
standards, software is often combined in interesting ways. As the amount of free software grows, the interest
in building on what has already been grows with it. From Linux Weekly News.

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  • Open Source
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