Technology Innovation One Scoop At A Time, Sep 26, 2006

For the world's best-engineered ice cream, go to the Union Court dining area at Boston University. What you'll find is a vending machine that can make 96 varieties of ice cream to order from 12 flavors, two base mixes--premium and low carb--and three dry-ingredient mix-ins.

Shares of Red Hat rose on heavy trading Monday, as investors bid the stock up in anticipation of Tuesday's second-quarter earnings report.

... if IBM were to prevail on all its motions (of course that is a rare event indeed) then the only thing left to bring to a jury would be IBM's counterclaims. That has to be SCO's worst nightmare.

As the founder of the Free Software Foundation and the author of the widely used GNU Public License, Mr. Stallman is not just a huge proponent of free software, he opposes what he sees as any kind of restriction on intellectual freedom. Owning a cell phone is giving into being monitored by mobile phone companies, he argues.

From September 25-30, Real will be offering a multimedia PC with a Celeron processor, which the supermarket chain has not specified any further, for just under 200 euros.

Venture-funded Israeli startup Yoggie Security Systems is readying a tiny, Linux-based remote access device designed to protect Windows XP laptops. The credit-card-sized Yoggie Personal Security Gatekeeper has two Ethernet ports, and runs sophisticated firewall, VPN, and monitoring software on a hardened Linux kernel, the company says.

Microsoft seemingly has backed off from trumpeting its “Get the Facts” studies, as of late. But that doesn’t mean the company has ceased commissioning research outfits to perform its anti-Linux dirty work.

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