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As for the new version of the 500 or Cinquecento, scheduled for release in September 2007, Fiat has set up a Web site (www.Fiat500.com) inviting fans of the tiny car to submit ideas for its design.

De Meo likened the site to Linux, the computer operating system whose source code is open to the public to add, change and use as they see fit.

[You know you've arrived when you become part of a car salesman's pitch. -- grouch]

One of the hardest and most often repeated myth is that people either support the collection of monopoly rents (royalties) for every possible use of a work (every copy, every communication, every performance), or they oppose the idea of authors getting compensated for their work.

If packed demo rooms are any indication of interest in its latest Linux desktop, Novell has a willing audience.

On a desk in a messy office on the eighth floor of a building opposite the Massachusetts Institute of Technology sits a circuit board that might just transform education for millions of kids around the world.

A Brisbane-based team of developers has played a key part in the development of Linux-based mobile applications for software developer Trolltech.

Despite being headquartered in Norway, Trolltech has led its primary development team at its Brisbane base since 1999.

The Brisbane team was responsible for development of Trolltech's flagship software, Qtopia, an application platform for embedded Linux mobile phones, PDAs and other mobile computing devices.

NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR) and Novell (Nasdaq: NOVL) have announced a global agreement to offer Novell(R) Linux Point of Service on NCR RealPOS(TM) retail point-of-sale (POS) terminals.

The agreement between Novell and NCR -- one of the world's largest store automation solution vendors -- makes a secure, reliable software platform and hardware combination available for retailers deploying Linux-based POS solutions. NCR's plans call for offering Novell Linux Point of Service on NCR EasyPoint(TM) kiosks and NCR FastLane(TM) self-checkout in the future.

For past three weeks, I have been seeing a steady increase in the number of referrers being sent to this site by Stumble Upon. I am sure others are experiencing similar kind of “traffic” referrals.
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I decided to install it, and well, like Pete Cashmore, I find StumbleUpon simply addictive.

Musicians can now record a song, upload it to their own unique website, and sell it five minutes later, courtesy of the innovators at Broadjam Inc. Oh, the possibilities!

About Broadjam Inc. Broadjam Inc. is a rapidly growing company that provides web-based technology, software and services for the music industry and independent musicians around the world. The company operates one of the world's largest web communities for musicians and hosts a massive online database of searchable independent music.

Linux Networx has announced that ATK Launch Systems, a provider of advanced weapons and space systems, has ordered one of the company's Custom Supersystems. The system is expected to increase ATK Launch Systems' compute capability to over 2.24 teraflops.

[Highlights:] * Changing the way that Development lands
* New ticketing system for the Fedora Project
* Fedora Board chair looks ahead

SQL Injection is one of the most common security vulnerabilities on the web. Here I'll try to explain in detail these kinds of vulnerabilities with examples of bugs in PHP and possible solutions.

Australia-based Puppy's most redeeming feature is that it has a small footprint yet is full-featured, including all sorts of configuration and application installation wizards.

Drupal is a content management system (CMS) built on the PHP and MySQL combination (detailed requirements here). I've been working with the latest version since its release at the beginning of this month. Drupal 4.7 is a significant upgrade that brings major short- and long-term benefits to users and distributors of the system. It brings Drupal back to the cutting edge of CMS development.

Open-source application integration software is getting accolades from end users who previously spent “weeks and weeks of man hours coding integration tools and utilities to process data.”

Altair Engineering Inc. will work closely with Red Hat to ensure that Altair's PBS Professional will continue to be compatible with future Red Hat Enterprise Linux releases.

Yogi Berra said once, "When you come to a fork in the road, take it."

It's funny, until someone actually takes that advice literally and tries to go down two conflicting roads at once. For example, take SCO's Reply to Novell's Counterclaims.

Businesses use open source software liberally, but when it’s payback time, they look askance.

When you're done installing SUSE Linux 10.1 OSS, your desktop system is not complete. You might still need support for Java programs, MP3 audio files, and browser plugins for Macromedia Flash, Adobe Acrobat, RealPlayer, and Windows Media Video. You may also want to add support for playing DVD videos on your computer, and to try out the new XGL graphical toys. Here's how to effectively make SUSE Linux 10.1 into the perfect desktop OS.

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: Huge optimisations in ksysguard. Solid switches to CMake. aRts, KPDF removed in trunk/, whilst oKular continues to be developed as its replacement. amaroK gets support for Creative Zen devices. coreapps/ module created (as proposed on kde-core-devel). More work on supporting Intel compilers.

Mono has released version 1.1.13.5 and 1.1.14. Version 1.1.13.5 is actually the first release since 1.1.13, even though there were four internal releases in between. The purpose of this release is to document the changes in those releases; there are no new features in this release, just bug fixes in all areas of the project. One reason for multiple releases was to keep testers current during the run-up to the major 1.2 release. Release notes are at http://go-mono.com/archive/1.1.13.5.