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IBM declared in a new corporate policy that it was establishing new IT standards and redefining its ties with the International Standards Organization (ISO). If developing countries want to develop their own standards, IBM is willing to support them. Ramifications are clear regarding the turbulent debate around acceptance of Microsoft's Open Office XML (OOXML) data format.

What Greg Kroah-Hartman said, what Canonical answered, what do users think about it, what does Joe Brockmeier think about it and what is the Linux Foundation\'s point of view... Linux ProMagazine editor Rikki Kite tells the whole story in her ROSE Blog.

Open source project Panda provides Software to create your own do-it-yourself video platforms -- provided you also pay for the Amazon Web Services.

Greg Kroah-Hartman's keynote address at the Linux Plumbers Convention 2008 was officially about the Linux Ecosystem, but started as a direct attack on Ubuntu developer Canonical. He claims that the company contributes next to nothing to kernel development. Ubuntu believes Hartman is being "objectionable" and that his statistical methods were not an "exact science."

Dirac is a video codec data compression technique first developed by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) that is under Mozilla Public License Version 1.1.

The Hanlin eReader V3 from Tianjin Jinke Electronics out of China claims to provide a month of use between battery charges. By then 10,000 pages of reading should have been possible – provided you have the requisite time and patience.

Romain Gaucher, a specialist in web security, offers his Scalp tool in version 0.4. The log analyzer searches for attacks on Apache web applications.

Adobe has issued its second release candidate of Flash Player 10, which should be approaching the finish line. Developers have not only fixed a number of bugs, but added a few new features.

Several groupware developers have come together to work on Project OpenMapi, an open source API, based on Microsoft's Mapi.

In his screencast, Douglas Napoleone programs a simple music database by using the Python Django framework. In its now available second version, Napoleone demonstrates how it works in the roughly two hours of the video.

The battle in the virtualization market enters a new phase: Sun Microsystems released new versions of its virtualization software Sun xVM. And a few days ago Red Hat announced its takeover of Qumranet, makers of the virtualizer KVM. Meanwhile Microsoft and Novell are teaming up to counter with their own Microsoft Hyper-V and Suse Linux Enterprise Server offerings.

Coworkers at the University of Tel Aviv have presented a prototype for a new host-based intrusion detection system (HIDS) for Linux. Named Korset, it uses static code analysis and promises zero failures.

Developers have integrated a network topology visualization tool in the Nmapu2019s Zenmap graphical user interface by using RadialNet. And the network scanner now also recognizes iPhones and Wii consoles.

Wine 1.1.4 went public only two weeks after the earlier version 1.1.3 and, along with fixed bugs, provides better support for the new Chrome Google browser. The developers also tout its substantial WinHTTP implementation and improved JavaScript support. A complete list of changes can be found at the WINE HQ website, with binaries for Wine 1.1.4 to follow shortly. The source code can be downloaded from the Sourceforge portal.

U.S. Linux distributor Red Hat has bought the virtual computing solutions vendor Qumranet. Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst sees his company now at the same eye level with Microsoft.

Google touts its Javascript engine version 8, among other things, as setting new speed records for its Chrome browser. Linux Magazine author Mathias Huber found during a benchmark test that the next Firefox generation can keep up with it.

Linux-Magazine author Dmitri Popov is starting a brand new blog titled "Cooking the Productivity Sauce", offering tips for the productive use of open source applications. As a start he introduces the OutWit extension for web scrapping. But even better yet, OutWit allows you to save and export the scrapped data, which makes it a great research tool. The extension has the potential to turn your favorite browser into a powerful tool for extracting and organizing data, so he says.

IOC President, Jacques Rogge, was recently forced to back-pedal under a barrage of criticism when it became clear that assurances that the press corps would have "unrestricted" Internet access were no more than piecrust promises. Nevertheless, the technology behind the "Golden Shield Project", which is apparently a means of protecting the Chinese from criminal content and has earned the nickname "Great Firewall of China", is relatively simple. Journalists in the Olympic village, as well as western corporations and even private individuals have a range of tools at their disposal to ensure their Internet access is both full and unmonitored. However, most of these are based on anonymizing services, such as gateways, proxies or web services, that massage the content and smuggle it in under the censor's nose.