Showing all newswire headlines

I don't make these things up. There really was a New New Internet conference held near Washington, DC, in September, and I went to it. (The conference organizers paid my travel expenses.) I listened dutifully to a number of keynotes and networked with some of the Web 2.0 entrepreneurs, wanna-be entrepreneurs, and venture capitalists who seemed to make up the bulk of the attendees. I shot a bit of video, too, so you can get a couple of glimpses of what went on. But in the end, I was left with the question, "How much of this stuff is really all that new?"

What is the PHP scripting language? Why is it so popular? How does it work? How can I start using it? What's the latest version? These are all questions that the newbie Web professional (and others) ask, especially as PHP becomes the de facto standard rivaling ASP and JSP.

Secure By Design: How Guardian Digital Secures EnGarde Secure Linux ...

A library switches from Linux…To more Linux,
ODF is the way to go say the French,
the Amarok Project announces it is Rocktober!
Then we discuss openSUSE 10.2 dropping RiserFS as it’s default file system and
we give a tip of the hat to Slackware 11.
PLUS we interview the Vice President of REAL Software about their Desktop Linux Strategies.

Linux distributor Mandriva SA has acquired Linux management and services firm LinboxFAS for up to $2.1m.

Marten Mickos, CEO of open-source database vendor MySQL AB, in Uppsala, Sweden, says that he’s confident that the wrangling over the current draft of the GNU general public license Version 3 (GPLv3) will help his company in the long run. The MySQL database is distributed under the GPL. In an interview with the IDG News Service, Mickos also talked about other open-source issues and what lies ahead for MySQL.

Massachusetts keeps saying that it will be using the Open Document Format in government offices by 2007, but there's still no IT budget.

The Accordent Media Communications Platform Enables Professors to Easily Integrate Video, Visuals and PowerPoint Elements Into Daily Instruction

[Web-enabled solution works with any desktop environment - dcparris]

The final version of the Office Open XML 1.0 draft was posted an hour or so ago at the Ecma site. It is this specification that Microsoft hopes will be adopted, not only by Ecma, but by global standards body ISO/IEC as well, in an effort to slow the adoption of OpenDocument Format (ODF) by government users, among others.

Command-line utilities can be powerful, but it takes some doing to make a typical desktop user work in the shell. The image manipulation program ImageMagick is one command-line program that gives users a good reason to use the CLI. Now Packt Publishing has released ImageMagick Tricks, a book that covers ImageMagick from the ground up. If you've never used ImageMagick before, this book is a good starting place.

Baynote, Inc., a pioneer in content guidance software for the business web, today unveiled Baynote.org (http://www.baynote.org), a community-based website that encourages the adoption of business-ready open source search.

Despite claims by one of the researchers involved that the whole thing was a joke , security experts at Mozilla Corp. are continuing to investigate whether there is indeed a remotely-exploitable flaw in the Firefox browser.

Chariot Solutions, a firm specializing in software development using Java and open source, introduced three new tools for the Apache Geronimo J2EE platform at ApacheCon US 2006. The new Geronimo components include a first-of-its-kind Apache Tomcat-to-Geronimo migration tool, a Java Persistence API (JPA) plug-in, and a plug-in for JasperReports.

Adapting the popular Open Source Bugzilla framework proved a great way to track the Komatsu manufacturing process. Rob Reilly files this report on a unique solution to a long-standing problem.

The fight for free access to information, especially educational, is an age-old battle. But with the open source software revolution, various online projects have been established to help people access free educational information.

Much is written about network security. There are many classes of product that have been developed to manage network access and to inspect traffic in order to identify anomalous behaviour.

With the job market constantly going up and down these days, a lot of IT pros have toyed with the idea of building a PC repair business, but they really loathe the idea of being at the butt-end of the stick when the next big Windows virus hits.

Translate.org.za has released a new South African keyboard that caters for all of the 11 official languages spoken in South Africa including support for previously ignored characters for languages such as Venda, Northern Sotho and Tswana.

Listen Up!...to the latest audio program on the site - What's Happening in the World of Databases.

Creative Commons South Africa, the local arm of the global alternative licensing movement, last week released an updated set of licences. Version 2.5 of the licences allow the author or rightsholder to specify with more detail how they wish their work to be attributed.