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In a bid to encourage the mobile phone industry to standardize on a single Web browser, Nokia on Wednesday released the source code for the mobile phone Web browser it developed last year.

If "all politics is local", as Tip O'Niell famously said, can't we say the same about all business? If so, maybe we should start walking our Net Neutrality talk on our own main streets.

As chilly Seattle rain drifted down, the "DRM Elimination Crew" marched back and forth in their suits, handing out brochures like "Microsoft Vista - DRM'd and Defective By Design," "DRM IS Digital Restrictions Management," and "Restricting you the User," to curious passers-by.

Chilling Effects is a resource site for online freedom of expression in the United States. Founded by Wendy Seltzer, currently a visiting assistant professor at Brooklyn Law School, the site is supported by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and more than half a dozen law schools, including Harvard, Stanford, and Bolt. The site exists to document attempts to stifle free speech online, and to provide general legal advice for those faced with such attempts. During its five years of operation, Chilling Effects has become one of the major Web resources on its subject.

KDE is happy to announce the selection of 24 student applications for the Google Summer of Code 2006.

U.S. soldiers in Iraq are forming emotional ties to Linux-powered robots, according to Reuters. iRobot's robots -- used for tasks such as explosives defusing and cave exploration -- are being given nicknames and winning loyalty, to the extent that soldiers request repairs for their favorites, Reuters says.

IBM will expand its Brazilian Linux Technology Center (LTC), in order to advance several projects of interest to embedded Linux developers. The $2.2M investment will further projects devoted to Linux-on-Cell and Linux-on-Power, Linux ease-of-use, virtualization, and government security certifications for Linux.

Glowlink has announced that Glowlink’s flagship Model 1000 Satellite Spectrum Monitoring System is now available on the Linux platform.

Welcome to this year's 21st issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community. Julien Danjou reported that he has successfully installed NetBSD 3 inside the new Xen 3 virtual machine monitor available in Debian unstable. Eric Dorland explained the creation of library packages with debugging capabilities.

The Trinity Rescue Kit (TRK) is noteworthy for being relatively lightweight, fast-booting, and designed specifically as a cross-platform rescue CD.

The PostgreSQL project released updated versions of the PostgreSQL 8.1, 8.0, 7.4, and 7.3 series today to address a SQL injection vulnerability.

As the CEO of SugarCRM Inc., John Roberts is the head of one of the signature open source companies in existence today.

Based in Cupertino, Calif., SugarCRM is a provider of commercial customer relationship management, or CRM, software for open source platforms. At SugarCRM, Brown oversees a growing global customer portfolio that includes the 200 projects spawned by the community surrounding his open source CRM application. He even maintains an expanding technical partnership with the Dark Prince of the OSS community – Microsoft.

Following ten successive quarters of year-over-year revenue growth, this was the second consecutive quarter of year-over-year revenue decline as quarterly compares become more difficult.
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Linux servers posted their fifteenth consecutive quarter of double-digit growth, with year-over-year revenue growth of 17.0% and unit shipments up 14.4%.

There will be more consolidation in the community that values open software development, and that is potentially a very good thing

The problem with writing and editing on a computer, versus having words on paper, is that it's usually hard to compare text from different sections of a document when they don't fit on the screen together. One way to do it is to use Vim's viewports feature. Another is to "fold" the text. Using Vim's folding features, you can tuck away portions of a file's text so that they're out of sight until you want to work with them again. Here's how.

From the Legal-Eagle dept.:
Here's an important development. The Open Invention Network has bought some new patents, with the express purpose of protecting Linux.

Users can get a preview of the next Mandriva server distribution, which promises to be a more secure and versatile enterprise-level platform than previous releases.

A little-known African localisation project called KiLinux scooped a Stockholm Challenge Award in Sweden earlier this month, while South Africa's Translate.org.za walked away with nothing. Tectonic asks Translate.org.za director Dwayne Bailey why he's still smiling. (Well, at least a little.)

DesktopLinux.com columnist and well-known Linux test pilot Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols reports that he's run up against a major flaw in his current favorite desktop Linux, OpenSUSE 10.1. Apparently, the project's effort to enhance the distro's package manager of the distribution has gone awry.

Desktop sales played a big role in Hewlett-Packard's recent news-making profit gains. In the future, Linux will figure prominently in HP desktops, says Christine Martino, vice president of HP's Open Source and Linux Organization. She's not predicting an overthrow of Windows desktops anytime soon, though.