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Microsoft has claimed the cost of software is not an important issue in the developing world.

Steve Stecklow writes "Jon Lech Johansen dropped out of high school after just one year. He lives alone most of the time, except when he stays with his parents in his native Norway. The 21-year-old doesn't drive, rarely goes to parties and says he has no close friends, except his father. He spends about nine hours a day in front of his computer screen.

"Yet this reclusive young Norwegian is the man who may be the entertainment industry's worst nightmare. Mr. Johansen, Hollywood executives claim, has done more than almost anyone in the world to ignite the explosion of movie piracy on the Internet, costing them billions of dollars in lost sales. He scoffs at that."

In our view, if Hollywood would provide the Linux software to watch the movies we bought as they do with Microsoft Windows and allow us to watch them on our personal computers, then maybe they would not have a problem. -Ed

BEIJING, Oct. 17 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- China TechFaith Wireless Communication Technology Limited (Nasdaq: CNTF), a handset application software and handset solution provider based in China, today announced updated financial guidance for the third quarter ended September 30, 2005 and the full year ending December 31, 2005. Based on preliminary information, the Company expects revenues for the third quarter 2005 will increase to approximately US$23 million or approximately 10% over the second quarter of 2005, with net income of approximately US$11 million for the third quarter of 2005. T

Welcome to our issue number 18 of Fedora Weekly News.

Built-In Network Media Server, Secure Peer-To-Peer Digital Content Sharing Anywhere in the World and Gigabit Ethernet Speed Raise the Bar for Easy, Centralized Storage for Consumers and Small Businesses

John Layden writes: "Microsoft has warned enterprises of glitches involving a security update issued last week. A patch designed to fix a flaw in Windows middleware components (MS05-051.mspx) creates system instability in environments with modified Access Control List (ACL) settings."

Today, Alan Yates of Microsoft will make a presentation to the National Association of State CIOs explaining how Open Source practices are inferior to Microsoft's. How unfortunate for Mr. Yates if someone in the conference reads the news. - Ed.

CeRoma has Licensed the ARM1136J(F)-S and ARM7TDMI Processors With the Artisan High-Speed Library to Develop High-Performance, Consumer Devices

- Rigorous Comparative Review Against Leading BI Vendors Puts Cognos in Top Position -

Editor's reference: See Cognos Solution for Linux

"Anyone who would trade their freedom for safety deserves neither freedom or safety." -Ben Franklin

Related to the article FOSS: The Savior of Democracy by Tuxchick

Agencies Invest in SGI Supercomputing and Storage Solutions to Protect Citizens and Businesses with Accurate Forecasts

Founding Member of Lab's New Mobile Linux Initiative

Check Point Software Technologies and Sourcefire have a history of working together, but last week's announcement that Check Point plans to acquire Sourcefire has some open source users a bit nervous.

Reading through this weeks edition of Computer Weekly I notice that there are frequent references to the use of Linux in the enterprise. Kevin Hughes, a nautical equipment manufacturer has moved over to 64-bit Linux running Oracle on HP Itanium machines.

Eleven official languages and multiple character sets have proved to be a challenge for the folk at translate.org.za, but that hasn't stopped them from releasing the first Venda keyboard map as an open source project.

HSINCHU, Taiwan, Oct. 13 /Xinhua-PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- AU Optronics ("AUO" or the " the Company") (TAIEX: 2409; NYSE: AUO) today announced its latest breakthrough technologies for LCD TV application, scheduled to be on exhibit at the FPD International 2005 later this month. These latest technologies are developed to improve response time, color and motion picture quality images. In the line up, Advanced MVA ( "AMVA") that provides low color washout and high contrast ratio is already under production. Included on show is a 32" module, in production mode, well equipped with low color washout and high contrast ratio (1200:1) features.

Educational Half-Day Seminar Hosted by LynuxWorks, Arrow Electronics, Objective Interface Systems and Certicom Enables Developers to Understand Technical Issues Involved in Designing a "Secure Embedded System"

Coraid has launched a Linux-based network attached storage (NAS) server appliance together with a highly targeted Linux NAS distribution that integrates with the company's EtherDrive Storage to create a low cost network attached file server with unlimited storage capacity. A single Coraid CLN/20 Linux NAS server can literally have thousands of disks connected via Ethernet, and exported with NFS.

New Working Group Supports Growing Opportunity for Linux in Mobile Market; More Than 2.8 Billion Mobile Phones Expected to be in Use by 2009

Eventually, Yodlee would discover Groundwork Monitor, an open source monitoring application from Emeryville, Calif.-based GroundWork Open Source Solutions Inc., as a way to save time and money. But first, the company did it's best to make due with OpenView.

NEW YORK, Oct. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Welcome to Glide Effortless http://www.glidedigital.com: the complete portable desktop solution that combines the functionality of software with the sharing possibilities of online services. It is also very easy to use. Glide is designed to replace the need for many single purpose software applications and web services, enabling users to simplify and consolidate their digital lives and save time and money.