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AnnouncementsNon-Commercial announcements EFF: Trusted Computing Group Helps Lock Down Mobile PhonesThe Electronic Frontier Foundation has sent out a press release that criticizes a new plan for a new cell phone technology. "The Trusted Computing Group (TCG), an industry consortium developing controversial computer security specifications, has released a wish list of applications of TCG technology to cell phone security. Unfortunately, much of this "security" aims to help cell phone carriers cement their control over their customers."
Three New Companies Join The GNOME Foundation's Advisory BoardThe GNOME Foundation has announced the joining of three new members to its advisory board. "The GNOME Foundation today announced three new corporate members -- OpenedHand Ltd., Imendio AB and Fluendo S.L. These young growing companies are eager to support the GNOME Desktop project and become more deeply involved by joining GNOME's advisory board. Based in the United Kingdom, Sweden and Spain, and specializing in different applications of the GNOME platform, they reflect the diversity and optimism of the GNOME community."
New IPI Publication, Intellectual Property Rights and Human RightsThe Institute for Policy Innovation has released a new publication entitled Intellectual Property Rights and Human Rights. "Several internationally recognized documents such as The U.S. Constitution, The American Declaration on the Rights and Duties of Men, The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Economics, Social and Cultural Rights make it clear that those concerned about human rights made a conscious and concerted effort to ensure that intellectual property rights were protected, said IPI President Tom Giovanetti."
KDE e.V. Assembly Meeting 2005 Notes (KDE.News)KDE.News has announced the availability of the notes from the KDE e.V. meeting. "KDE's legal body KDE e.V. held its Annual General Meeting at aKademy 2005 last month. Notes from the meeting are now available. A new board was chosen voting in Cornelius Schumacher and Aaron Seigo, and continuing Mirko Böhm and Eva Brucherseifer. Our thanks to the retiring board members Matthias Kalle Dalheimer and Harri Porten. The meeting decided to create working groups to streamline KDE development and activity, notes from the meeting discussing working groups are also available."
Petition Aims to Improve eBay's Mozilla Firefox Support (MozillaZine)MozillaZine has announced a petition to get eBay to improve its Firefox browser support. "Online auction news site AuctionBytes is reporting that some eBay sellers have started a petition to persuade the auction giant to support Mozilla Firefox and other alternative browsers. According to the article, some features on the eBay Sell Your Item page are optimised for Microsoft Internet Explorer and do not work correctly in Firefox and other browsers. In addition, there is no Firefox version of eBay Toolbar, which is currently only available for Internet Explorer on Windows."
Apply now for DMCA exceptionsThe Digital Millennium Copyright Act includes a provision allowing the Library of Congress to exempt certain activities from the anti-circumvention clause. To that end, the Library occasionally asks for exemption requests and makes its decisions. That process has just started again, with requests due by the beginning of December. For the curious, here are the results from the previous iteration, which happened in 2003. See also Seth Finkelstein's guide on writing DMCA exemption requests.
Commercial announcements DELL NEWS: New Open-Source Ready Consumer DesktopDell has announced the Dimension E510n desktop computer for tech-savvy customers. It comes with a blank hard drive and a copy of FreeDOS to get started. The Dimension E510n is available immediately in the United States. The base configuration starts at $849 with a Pentium 4 630 processor, 512 MB DDR2 memory, 128 MB ATI(r) RADEON X300SE HyperMemory video card, 80 GB SATA hard drive and 1-year limited warranty.
Jataayu and MontaVista partner on mobile phone effortJataayu and MontaVista have announced a partnership. "Jataayu Software, a leading vendor of mobile device solutions, today announced that it has joined the Mobilinux Open Framework Partner Program. MontaVista's Mobilinux Open Framework is a program designed to increase the adoption of Linux within the mobile phone industry by providing handset vendors and mobile operators with solutions consisting of components from best of breed mobile software providers and MontaVista's Mobilinux OS platform. The primary goal of this program is to provide mobile handset vendors and operators with the architectural freedom to create and deliver differentiated products and services."
PathScale and Voltaire Sign Agreement on High Performance Grid BackbonePathScale has announced a partnership with Voltair involving InfiniBand cluster connect adapters. "One of the first Voltaire customers to receive the PathScale adapter is the Sandia National Laboratory's research facility in Livermore, CA. According to Dr. Matt Leininger, computational scientist at Sandia National Laboratories, "We see Voltaire's collaboration with PathScale as a very positive development that will make it easier for us to build extremely large InfiniBand-based clusters based on the OpenIB software stack. The ability to couple the PathScale InfiniBand adapter to Hypertransport has some significant advantages in terms of latency and effective bandwidth for many of our complex applications such as structure mechanics, computational fluid dynamics and combustion codes."
Red Hat Reports Fiscal Second Quarter ResultsRed Hat has announced its second quarter results. The fiscal quarter ended on August 31, 2005. "Total revenue for the quarter was $65.7 million, a year-over-year increase of 42% and a sequential increase of 8%. Subscription revenue was $54.3 million, an increase of 56% year-over-year and 10% sequentially."
Sun makes an OASIS patent pledgeSun has issued a pledge not to enforce its patents against any implementation of the OpenDocument format specification - version 1.0 at least. There is one exception, though: Sun still reserves the right to use its patents against anybody else who asserts patent claims against OpenDocument.
Wind River launches a Linux distributionWind River Systems has announced the forthcoming availability of its Linux distribution for embedded systems. It is, says Wind River, "the first true commercial-grade Linux for device manufacturers." The distribution is based on a "pristine source" 2.6.10 kernel and includes what appears to be a nice development environment and the inevitable pile of service offerings.
New Books Ambient Findability - O'Reilly's Latest ReleaseO'Reilly has published the book Ambient Findability by Peter Morville.
Asterisk: The Future of Telephony - O'Reilly's Latest ReleaseO'Reilly has published the book Asterisk: The Future of Telephony by Jim Van Meggelen, Jared Smith, and Leif Madsen.
Practical Development Environments - O'Reilly's Latest ReleaseO'Reilly has published the book Practical Development Environments by Matthew B. Doar.
Resources The Linux Documentation Project Weekly NewsThe September 28, 2005 edition of the Linux Documentation Project Weekly News is available, take a look for the latest new documentation releases.
Linux Gazette #119The October Linux Gazette is out. The edition has Notes from Linux World 2005 - San Francisco, a Book Review of Knoppix Hacks, Optimizing Website Images with the Littleutils, After the Summer of Code and much more.
TUX Issue #7 Now Available (GnomeDesktop)GnomeDesktop.org has an announcement for issue #7 of Tux Magazine. "The latest issue of Tux Magazine is available in PDF format. Once you get past the silly bickering in the beginning of the issue, there are 3 very good articles, one on gThumb, another on GnuCash, and the last on Inkscape."
Contests and Awards CMP Media Announces Winners of 2005 Readers' Choice AwardsCMP Media LLC has announced the winners of its 2005 Readers' Choice Awards. ""We're always looking for ways to recognize the best products and vendors in software development; therefore, we've evolved the Readers' Choice Awards program to look at the different aspects of the development process," noted Software Development magazine Technical Editor Rosalyn Lum. "Last year, the Fortune 500 dominated the winner's list, but this year we're also recognizing lesser-known products from small to medium-sized companies, and we're very pleased with the results.""
Surveys ONJava 2005 Reader Survey Results, Part 2 (O'ReillyNet)O'Reilly has published part two of the ONJava 2005 Reader Survey Results. "Is there anything else you'd like to tell our Java editors? Well, 226 people responding to the 2005 ONJava Reader Survey did. In this article, we show what they said and discuss what we're doing with the site."
Upcoming Events Big Nerd Ranch Europe is open for BusinessBig Nerd Ranch has announced the first European PostgreSQL and Cocoa Bootcamps. The events will be held in Italy during December and January. "Following a constant demand the Big Nerd Ranch will be offering their classes in Europe. The Big Nerd Ranch Europe, operated by Stefanie Höfling, is located in Bonn, Germany".
Government Open Source Conference - Portland, OregonThe first annual Government Open Source Conference (GOSCON) will take place in Portland, Oregon on October 13 and 14, 2005.
Marketing and Selling Open Source Software 2005Two Marketing and Selling Open Source Software 2005 events have been announced. The first event will take place in Burlington, MA. on October 6 and 7, and the second will take place in San Jose, CA on November 10 and 11. "Featuring expert speakers on applications, licensing, marketing strategy, legal issues and more, the two-day conference for executives and sales and marketing managers will help companies understand how Open Source is impacting their bottom lines and how to make that impact positive."
Call for Papers - DIMVA 2006A Call for Papers has gone out for DIMVA 2006, The third GI SIG SIDAR Conference on Detection of Intrusions & Malware, and Vulnerability Assessment. Papers are due by January 13, 2006 and the event will be held on July 13 and 14, 2006 in Berlin, Germany.
Events: October 6 - December 1, 2005
Audio and Video programs 'The California Report' Radio Show Profiles Mozilla (MozillaZine)MozillaZine reports that a radio show called The California Report looks at the Mozilla and Firefox browsers. "The profile discusses Mozilla and Mozilla Firefox with an emphasis on explaining the open source development methodology behind the software. Mitchell Baker, Mike Shaver and Robert O'Callahan are all featured." The audio program is available online.
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