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Windows AntiSpyware becomes 'Defender'

The tool, designed to protect PCs against hidden software, has been renamed "Windows Defender" and is getting a new look as well as capabilities to detect rootkits, keystroke loggers and other threats. The news of the revamp came Friday in a posting to a new Microsoft corporate blog dealing with malicious software.

MS targets developers with familiar integration and scale pitch

Microsoft has finally launched updates to its Windows developer tools and database, using a worldwide event to challenge competitors and any perceptions you might have that Microsoft is still not "enterprise-ready".

Nokia's Linux-based Net device on sale

The Nokia 770 will be on sale at some retail outlets--and through the company's Web site, for 350 euros, or about $412, the mobile phone giant said in a statement on Monday. Sales in the United States aren't expected until next week, however, and the product was listed as out of stock in some European countries.

Novell Layoffs Cast A Cloud Over Big-Business Linux

  • Information Week; By Larry Greenemeier (Posted by dcparris on Nov 7, 2005 7:52 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Novell
For big companies that want to use the Linux operating system and get business-level support, there are only two main options: Red Hat Inc. and Novell. And one of those looked shaky last week.

An Introduction to MySQL, LAMP Stack and Microsoft Windows ...

When open source software is mentioned, one of the first thoughts that comes to mind is the LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP/Perl/Python). While these products are not generally associated with Windows development, at least one of them is certainly well suited for Windows development, particularly when using .NET. The MySQL database server is an open source relational database developed by MySQL AB. MySQL is available for Windows, Linux, UNIX, and the Macintosh operating system. Using MySQL with Windows has never been easier with .NET and ADO.NET.

Red Hat's Q3 'Off To A Good Start'

Heather Bellini of UBS Investment Research raised the price target and maintained a "buy" rating on Red Hat (nasdaq: RHAT - news - people ) in anticipation of strong fiscal third-quarter 2006 results driven by increasing customer absolute spend.

[Renewals and increased spending are helping Red Hat - guess they must be doing something righ! - Ed]

Grokster to stop distributing file-sharing service

Andy Sullivan writes: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - File-sharing service Grokster Ltd. has agreed to stop distributing software that allows users to copy songs over the Internet after losing its case before the U.S. Supreme Court, a recording industry trade group said on Monday.

[If we keep surrendering our freedom, eventually, we won't have any freedom left to surrender. It's up to a government *of* and *by* the people to ensure that the it works *for* the people. IOW, if we, the people quit surrendering our freedoms, the government won't be able to encroach on them this way. - Ed]

DebConf6: generic sponsorship offer

DebConf6 will take place from the 14 May to the 22th 2006 in Oaxtepec, Mexico. It is preceded by an unofficial work camp called "debcamp", from the 6th to the 12th of May. On the 13th May, Debian Day, an information day for users, the press and Important People will be held. This will be mostly in spanish, and partly translated.

Textaloud Makes Text-to-Speech a Snap for Firefox Users

Text-to-Speech software leader NextUp.com (www.NextUp.com) has released version 2.068 of its popular TextAloud software. This upgrade includes a new Firefox Browser Plugin which adds a TextAloud toolbar to the popular web browser, allowing users to listen to web pages read aloud on their computer. Also, users can easily convert text from web news and web based emails to audio files for portable listening. This addition compliments the Outlook and Internet Explorer toolbars also available with TextAloud to make audio browsing of the internet even easier.

FreeMED 0.8.1 Released

The FreeMED Software Foundation is proud to announce the immediate availability of FreeMED version 0.8.1, which is available for download on sourceforge.

[FreeMed is a PHP-based medical informatics system. - Ed]

Totally Open

In the wake of rising cost and cheaper alternatives that arguably perform better than their proprietary counterparts, open source is an option that many organisations have been drawn to exploring. For this reason, many filled the seats of the Total Linux Breakfast Seminar, to learn more about the options they can take, as well as to hear from the final speaker, on her company’s experience as an end-user of the platform.

SCO demands mysterious Linux 2.7 info

  • Inquirer; By Charlie Demerjian (Posted by dcparris on Nov 7, 2005 3:57 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: IBM, SCO
THE BRAINIACS on SCO's legal team have done it again. They are demanding IBM hand over its materials about the Linux 2.7 kernel. No, that isn't a typo, they want 2.7 info. The only problem, is that it doesn't appear to exist.

[And this on the heels of the announcement that 2.6.14 finally made it out the door last week! - Ed]

Insurance comes to open source

Three organizations are teaming up to offer what they say is the first insurance policy for open source compliance to provide coverage for companies worldwide that sell products incorporating open source software or use it on their networks.

China's Bet on Linux

  • CIO; By Maria Trombly (With Wendy Yu) and Sumner Lemon (Posted by dcparris on Nov 7, 2005 3:09 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Novell
As China prepares to become a full member of the World Trade Organization, the Beijing government is trying to prove to the West that it is serious about reducing software piracy. And so ’s government agencies and businesses are turning to Linux as their desktop operating system of choice, a trend with potential to influence how the world uses the open-source software.

Unisys assumes open source missionary position

  • Inquirer; By Nick Farrell (Posted by dcparris on Nov 7, 2005 2:57 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
THE UNISYS president of worldwide sales, Peter Blackmore, has donned open sauce missionary garb and confessed publically that open source will save you money.

Microsoft v Google; Appliances - A Conversation with JH; A Tale of ...

The media has long been maintaining that Microsoft and Google must inevitably go head-to-head in competition and now it seems to be happening. There can be little doubt that Microsoft now sees Google (not Linux) as the biggest potential threat to its core business.

[Are we sure this is an either/or proposition? It seems more like Google AND Linux are the two biggest threats Microsoft faces. How well Microsoft will be able to handle a 2-front war will be interesting to watch. - Ed]

Zadrozny on Scott McNealy: "Open Source is Free Like a Puppy is ...

Peter Zadrozny writes: "I think that the problem is based on the fact that the majority of the developers of, and users of open source are developers. As far as they are concerned, once they finish the application it goes over the wall to some black hole, of which they only hear when there are problems."

[Should we hold his admiration of Scott McNealy's analogies against him? - Ed]

[Yes! - Other Ed.]

Solidcore Strengthens Team to Meet Market Demand for Its Embedded Control Solution

  • PR Newswire; By Press release (Posted by dcparris on Nov 7, 2005 1:35 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Press Release
Dilip Naik Appointed to Role of Chief Technology Officer for Embedded Solutions

Linux/lupper.worm

This worm spreads by exploiting web servers hosting vulnerable PHP/CGI scripts. It is a modified derivative of the Linux/Slapper and BSD/Scalper worms from which it inherits the propagation strategy. It scans an entire class B subnet created by randomly choosing the first byte from an hard-coded list of A classes and randomly generating the second byte.

Harness the NextDimension with NextCom's Innovative Xtreme Performance, Portable Graphics Development Workstation and Server

  • PR Newswire; By Press release (Posted by dcparris on Nov 7, 2005 12:00 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Press Release
NASHUA, N.H., Nov. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- NextCom launches the FleXtreme NextDimension, a top-of-the-line computer with outstanding computational and graphics capability, taking the best possible advantage of open standards in the smallest form factor available.

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