News for Monday, April 10 2006

Industry News

IBM Touts Integrated Encryption

In an effort to boost the level of data security on portable computers, cell phones and other gadgets, IBM is unveiling a method for injecting encryption capabilities into the heart of the machines' circuitry.
Source: Wired

Red Hat to buy JBoss

Red Hat has agreed to pay USD350 million for open source application server JBoss.
Source: InfoWorld

Scientists build high-energy batteries with viruses

Not computer viruses, but real viruses. The lithium ion batteries "built" by the viruses are three times as powerful as others for their weight and size.
Source: ComputerWorld

Rush is on for .eu domain names

The registry for the .eu top level domain received 390,000 applications in the first 100 minutes of availability.
Source: InfoWorld

Developer News

Only 'freaks' waste their time with Linux in Oklahoma

For the last two weeks, the Linux army has seized on Tuttle, Oklahoma city manager Jerry Taylor as a symbol of all that's wrong with the world.
Source: The Register

Researchers worry over new cross-platform viruses

A new virus that infects both Linux and Windows may be on the loose soon after developers release sample code.
Source: InfoWorld

Podcasts Are On Our Minds, But Not In Our Media Players

Many people know what podcasts are, but few use them. What will it take to make them ubiquitous?
Source: TechWeb

Geek Graffiti Takes on New York

Art and software development. What an interesting combination...
Source: Wired

Hot Threads

New Release of the VCF

0-9-0 release now available for those who are unmanaged.
Source: The Code Project

A Code Project Recipe book

Bake four and twenty coders into a pie...
Source: The Code Project