Stop the presses: Apple Computer plans to announce Monday that it's scrapping its partnership with IBM and switching its computers to Intel's microprocessors, CNET News.com has learned.

Computers can do a lot of things today: connect to the internet or do text editing or any other productivity task. They can play music, display or retouch photos, play movies. Produce realistic 3D graphics. But it's still 'blind', it has no idea of your existence, your emotions, the objects you are interacting with. Observer is about to end this era. Have a look at the videos presented in the movies section to understand the potential offered by Observer.

Ever pondered how companies make money from free and open source development projects? Could you open source your code and still make a profit? Con Zymaris puts forward the case.

Red Hat is changing course again with its free Fedora version of Linux, announcing Friday that it will turn over copyrights and development work to an outside entity called the Fedora Foundation.

Jonatan from ClieVideo was kind enough to send some nice pics of the Cobalt (PalmOS 6)-based phone that he bought at the Palm Developer's Conference. This is the first PalmOS 6 device to get widely known as such.

"Many Unix administrators always used to smirk when I talked about Linux. They could always point to the fact that regardless of whatever I could say, they had journaling file systems, which they could manage using various Logical Volume Management (LVM) tools, and I couldn't touch that." Read the article here.

Robert Watson has posted a number of status updates relating to various pieces of work going on in the TrustedBSD Project, and in particular, relating to integration of recent changes into the FreeBSD CVS tree for inclusion in the upcoming 6.0 release. This includes a information on verified execution, the MAC Framework, the SEBSD port of NSA's FLASK/TE to FreeBSD, and the new security event audit framework in FreeBSD 6.0.

Open Source has a wealth of offerings across many different arenas of software, to date a great deal of the offerings out there are development tools, general purpose applications, and first generation vertical applications. In the medical market there has been a long history of development on first generation software such as OpenEMR, FreeMed, FreeB and others. For some users these applications have offered a productive and capable platform on which to run their practice, but it is apparent to most the first time they go to use them that there is not the level of richness and depth found in proprietary alternatives like WebMD's Intergy, NextGen, or The Medical Manager. With the the release of ClearHealth 1.0 RC1 there is now a credible and full featured Open Source (under the GPL) offering that competes point for point in the big five areas of medical software:

Microsoft Corp. plans to announce as early as next week that it is ready to ship a Windows 2000 Update Rollup, the final security patch for the 5-year-old operating system. Microsoft has drawn some criticism after confirming that it will not make the next version of Internet Explorer available to users of its Windows 2000 operating system.

When SCO originally launched its case against IBM, most observers suspected that there was some kind of case to answer. There were two reasons to believe this.

Libranet's founder died on June 1st and all operations are frozen till later this month. Our condolences to Jon Danzig's family.

nVIDIA now has 3D drivers and OpenGL libraries for Xorg on Solaris 10. This brings the same level of functionality for the nVIDIA cards to Solaris that Linux and BSD have had already. Now, it's ATi's turn...

A new revision of Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 "Woody" is now available: "This is the sixth and final update of Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (codename 'woody') which mainly adds security updates to the stable release, along with a few corrections to serious problems.

Microsoft said Thursday that it will introduce new XML-based file formats for its Excel, PowerPoint and Word applications when the company launches its Office 12 software package next year.