Companies are showing renewed interest in video email, encouraged by
faster Internet connections and a new breed of cheap digital video cameras that promise to transform
the home-movie market. From CNET.com.

The FBI is
collecting material giving details of its
Internet-wiretapping system known as Carnivore
and will begin turning it over to a privacy
protection group for review within about 45
days, says Reuters.

Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien is the latest inductee into the pie-in-the-face club, after getting pied in Charlottown, PEI. Other famous members include Bill Gates.

Guardian Digital is introducing a distribution of linux geared at high security for electronic business, says LinuxPR.

The BBC is reporting on a new treatment for the disease TB, which currently takes as much of six months of treatment.

LinuxPR is carrying the story of a new linux support pool being created at IQLinux.com

Debian’s 2.2 release press conference was summarised by Linux Weekly News.

TechWeb brings us the news that Transmeta has launched a new processor.

Analysts wonder about the direction of the company after founder Michael Cowpland resigned this week. In the Reuters
analysis piece: “The company — caught between a slowdown in sales for its mature products and weak demand for its new Linux line — is now in the hands of a relatively unknown executive who faces the formidable task of turning around the company’s flagging fortunes.”

TheStandard.com
interviews Michael Dell following his keynote address at LinuxWorld. “There’s obviously a viable business here,” he says. “We’ve been gradually building more and more support around Linux based on the groundswell of demand from our customers.”