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IBM is set to launch open source software intended to improve the lot of web developers building voice-enabled applications.

An API is being released for download as part of the Eclipse Foundation's Voice Tools Project, which is based on the VoiceXML language for building voice-recognition systems.

The team at the helm of the 'Chrome' interface that is the front end for FireFox have been debating the best way to go about improving the browser for its next major release, version 2.0.

[ED: Be certain to check the first link, discussion by principle developers on what they see as the options, 2nd link is thinner and more from users' perspective - HC]

With the weird market conditions, happening to read of a potential opening might lead one to an unadvertised position or at worse be an early applicant. Nonetheless, the signal to noise ratio could incrediblely low. So read on concentrating on the voices and topics that interest you and you just might get lucky. Otherwise take a speed reading course or two.

And forget those stories in the media about blogs, wikies, etc being a passing fancy those are the articulated hopes of the source that only wishes (and propaganda) could make it true.

Yahoo intermittently refused email from CraigsList. Hotmail nailed the world's largest classified advertising website to its blocklist. In response, CraigsList shut off subscription mail to them... kind of. Months later, CraigsList techs were still complaining of spasmodic delivery problems to the very services they claimed... and still claim... to have shut down. Email Battles takes a stab at sorting the whole mess out.

Where is the outrage? Hey as you will be reading soon, from an informed source, some of the acquired properties are necessary for Oracle's survial due to its lack of functional tools. This does not seem, at least in some of the cases, to buy and bury. If Oracle went that route it might find they owned only a zombie whereas the Ghost was outside running wild and free.

To be fair, he does mention that true friend of open and free SAP is helping fund MySQL AB's search for alternative transaction support. This buying fenzy by Oracle may end in making it a friendlier supported of open and free. Patience, lets wait and see.

I'm a student, and I use my computer mainly for word processing, surfing the Internet, listening to music, and watching videos. I am also a musician, and have set up a small home studio around my computer. For years I used Windows, but I wasn't happy with the software or Microsoft's marketing strategies. After moving to SUSE 10.0, I am quite satisfied.

Posites how an off hours open source developer follows best practices and suggests strongly that corporate types learn to allow those practices to seep into corporate development. Outlines why corporate development should follow the same rules of behaviour. Finally ending with these sage words of advice: "The Fastest Way Through the Project Is to Do It Right" as the last section heading.

Do open source systems provide a better way of preventing bugs, or are their developers just cultural elitists?

[ED: Starts off a bit snide, but as it progesses the arguments become stronger for being open. - HC]

After years of open source projects like Linux and MySQL taking share from proprietary software companies, hardware makers like Cisco and Juniper get to experience the heart-stopping terror of open source hardware hitting the market. ... So far, the response from Cisco and Juniper has been a yawn.

Being 2006 and all, you would think it should be difficult to get excited about markup validation extensions for FireFox. Nevertheless, I have to say Joe Hewitt’s new offering Firebug has to be the most impressive new developer extension I’ve seen for a while (ok,ok,.. since IETab).

Sybase ASE Wins Best Linux Database Category

[ED: Sybase produces a high quality RDBMS and has in the past released even an enterprise version (no charge) for even commercial use. Moreover, for years there was a developers' Linux version available for download - HC]

Would you like to ask him why he quit, and who inspired The Boston Globe to investigate Quinn (which in turn instigated a Commonwealth investigation clearing Quinn completely), and what will happen to ODF? I felt the same way, and so I asked him. Here are his answers ...

         1. he hears Microsoft was the Boston Globe's source

         2. ODF has a good chance to prevail.

And much more.

Digg Story

This is the real source of the listed changes expected in version 2.0 of the upcoming Firefox. However, this blog is more than a mere listing of expected feature changes. Reasons are given as to the expected pace and goals as well as user feedback with some expression of trepidation regarding some changes, e.g. the bookmarks.

Why is IBM supporting Linux? Because we admire it, we believe in it, we need it and it's good for customers. And, well...it's a lot of fun.

[ED: All but the last played on a broken Debian Testing desktop that has only Flash. Five out six ain't bad - HC]

For a document shorter than a lawyer's note to the milkman, the GPL has had profound effects on the industry. Now's your chance to influence the first revision in 15 years - use it or lose it

[GPL:] A simple statement of rights and obligations, the General Public License sets out with astonishing brevity and unmatched clarity one particular concept of community fairness. Among those who agree: take freely what you want, do with it what you wish, give freely to those who ask.

Splunk (www.splunk.com), creators of the first search software for fast moving IT data, today announced the success of Camp Sys Admin -- the first ever camp for IT system administrators. The first in a series of gatherings to confront the challenges that face systems administrators, Camp Sys Admin was co-sponsored by Splunk and leading IT community ...

HP is considering selling services designed to ease customer participation in the open source programming community, the company's new open source boss said.

"Across HP, there are thousands of people who contribute to open source. We have a number of processes and tools we've developed to allow different folks in HP to interact with the open source community that protects our intellectual property and is done in a community-friendly way," ...

[ED: Pretty effective argument free software does not mean no cost. I like the message - HC]

[HP and Mandriva:] The companies will work together on sales, support and marketing in all Latin American territories, including Brazil, Argentina and Mexico.

The partnership has already started to take effect. The first pre-loaded machines - one targeted to the consumer market and one for the enterprise - are shipping in Brazil. ...

Mozilla plans to have an early alpha version of Firefox 2.0 in users hands by February, with builds of Firefox, Camino and Thunderbird for Macs running on Intel processors available the following month, recent statements from company developers indicate.

Details of a release date for Firefox 2.0 Alpha 1 [has] appeared ... [and] a security and stability update would be coming to Firefox 1.5 by the end of this month.

While not a flood, there is movement: "... couple of other physics-oriented blogs that recently were added to our blogroll: BioCurious by Andre Brown and Philip Johnson, and Thoughts on Science and Life by Kasper Olsen, who recently made the switch from Blogspot to WordPress. "