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AnnouncementsNon-Commercial announcements Bandit Project's Cross-Platform Card Selector Gives Users Control of Their Internet IdentitiesThe Bandit project announces availability of their digital identity management software. "DigitalMe allows for a user-centric identity model, where users, not Web sites, control how sensitive identity information is presented. This offers greater security, since users provide only the digital card with the specific information necessary to complete a transaction, and storage of sensitive information is limited to authorizing sites. DigitalMe works by allowing users to manage multiple digital identity cards to control identity data, including name, postal address, e-mail address and credit card information. The cards are either obtained from third-party companies or created by the user. When the user visits an information card-compatible Web site and performs a transaction, such as purchasing an item, a list of digital cards is presented. The user selects the relevant card and credentials are sent to an authorizing third-party site, for example the credit card company, which verifies that the user has the necessary funds to perform the purchase. Authorization is securely sent back to the original site through the user's system, and the transaction is completed."
EFF: Dangerous Ruling Forces Search Engine to Log UsersThe Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) are urging a California court to overturn a ruling that would require an Internet search engine to create and store logs of its users' activities as part of electronic discovery obligations in a civil lawsuit.
Tiemann: time to start enforcing "open source"Michael Tiemann, the leader of the Open Source Initiative, has come to the conclusion that it is time to start coming down on companies which falsely use the "open source" label. "We should never put the customer in a position where they cannot trust the term open source to mean anything because some company and their investors would rather make a quick buck than an honest one, or because they believe more strongly in their own story than the story we've been creating together for the past twenty years. We are better than that. We have been successful over the past twenty years because we have been better than that. We have built a well-deserved reputation, and we shouldn't allow others to trade the reputation we earned for a few pieces of silver."
Commercial announcements Eclipse Ships Largest-Ever Release of Leading Open Source Software Development PlatformThe annual coordinated release of the Eclipse Integrated Development Environment (IDE) was announced today. "Innovations in the Europa release include new runtime technology for creating server applications, developer tools for service-oriented architecture (SOA), tools for improving team collaboration and support for users of the popular Ruby programming language."
Mandriva UK Limited is launchedMandriva has announced the launch of Mandriva UK Limited. "Mandriva UK Limited (United Kingdom) was launched on May 23rd 2007 as the sole UK partner for Mandriva S.A, offering Mandriva Linux operating systems. Our target areas are corporate applications and solutions to individuals, educational institutions, public and private organizations, ISVs and OEMs all over the United Kingdom."
NVIDIA Tesla GPU launchedNVIDIA Corporation has announced the launch of the Tesla line of graphical processing units. "Computing on NVIDIA Tesla is now available to any software developer through the world's only C-language development environment for the GPU. NVIDIA(R) CUDA(TM) is a complete software development solution that includes a C-compiler for the GPU, debugger/profiler, dedicated driver, and standard libraries. CUDA simplifies parallel computing on the GPU by using the standard C language to create programs that process large quantities of data in parallel. Programs written with CUDA and run on Tesla are able to process thousands of threads simultaneously, providing high computational throughput to enable the GPU to quickly solve complex, computational problems. The NVIDIA CUDA development environment is currently supported on the Linux and Microsoft(R) Windows(R) XP operating systems."
Solutions4ebiz announces the Envoy 1U network routerSolutions4ebiz has announced a new rack-mounted Linux router platform with T1/E1 network capabilities. "Solutions4ebiz, the exclusive Midwest distributor and online retailer for ImageStream Internet Solutions (ImageStream), announced today the availability of a new business router, the Envoy 1U. The Envoy 1U, based on ImageStream's original Envoy router design, adds rackmount capability, support for more ports per chassis, and additional power options."
SourceKibitzer offers free Bio Service for Java developersSourceKibitzer has announced SourceKibitzer Bio. "SourceKibitzer OU, the Web's most advanced resource for Java developers working on open-source software (OSS), today announced SourceKibitzer Bio, a free, web-based service to enhance the benefits that Java developers realize for contributing to the open source software community."
TechTracker Media unveils new open-source marketing channelTechTracker Media has announced the Enterprise Open Source Channel. "TechTracker Media(TM), the leading IT vertical ad network, today announced the launch of their new "Enterprise Open Source Channel" - the industry's first vertical marketing channel devoted entirely to open source."
Untangle brings the open source movement to small business network securityUntangle has launched the Untangle Gateway Platform a commercial-grade open source solution for blocking spam, spyware, viruses, adware and unwanted content on the network. " Built around more than 30 best-of-breed, open source projects - including SpamAssassin, ClamAV, and Snort - the Untangle Gateway Platform provides the convenience, features and stability of the Appliance Vendors at a fraction of the cost and hassle. The complete system can be downloaded, installed, and configured in less than one hour." The Untangle Gateway Platform is available as a free download on SourceForge under the GPL v2 license.
Xandros to provide enhanced interoperability between standardized XML document formatsXandros has announced an effort to produce open-source translators for documents stored in the Ecma Office Open XML and Open Document Formats. "Xandros, the leading provider of intuitive Linux solutions and cross platform interoperability tools, today announced it will join Microsoft and other companies to build and ship open source translators between documents stored in Ecma Office Open XML and Open Document Formats. The translators, being developed through the Open XML/ODF Translator project, will be made available to Xandros users via the Xandros Networks update facility. Every Xandros product that includes OpenOffice.org will be equipped with the translators."
New Books Adding Ajax--New from O'ReillyO'Reilly has published the book Adding Ajax by Shelley Powers.
Education and Certification LPI announces new training partnersThe Linux Professional Institute has announced new training partners in Africa, Europe and Latin America. "This includes the first LPI training partners in France, Greece, the Ivory Coast, Peru, and Tanzania."
Calls for Presentations Audio Mostly 2007 call for papersA call for papers has gone out for Audio Mostly 2007. The event will take place on September 27-28, 2007 in Ilmenau, Germany, submissions are due by August 24.
ELC-Europe 2007 Call for PresentationsA Call for Presentations has gone out for ELC-Europe 2007. "The CE Linux Forum would like to invite you to make a presentation at our upcoming Embedded Linux Conference - Europe. The conference will be held November 2 and 3 in Linz, Austria, in conjunction with the 9th Real Time Linux Workshop." Submissions are due by August 11, 2007.
Ohio LinuxFest call for papers deadline is nearly hereThe call for presentations deadline for Ohio LinuxFest 2007 is approaching rapidly. The last date for presentation submissions is July 15, 2007. Ohio LinuxFest 2007 will be held Friday, September 28 through Sunday, September 30 at the Greater Columbus Convention Center.
Upcoming Events Akademy 2007 sponsors announced (KDE.News)KDE.News has announced the sponsors for the 2007 Akademy conference. "This Friday will see KDE contributors and our friends arriving from around the world to take part in the KDE World Summit in Glasgow. It costs a lot of money to host a conference of this size, but as in previous years our industry partners have stepped up and made it possible through generous sponsorship."
Events: July 5, 2007 to September 3, 2007The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
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