Paris eyes city-wide WiFi

Paris wireless. That's the goal of the city's Mayor, Bertrand Delanoe, who has been speaking of a plan to set up 400 free Wi-Fi hot-spots next year for city-wide coverage. City authorities hope that by allowing service providers to install antennae on public property - such as parks, squares and libraries - blanket coverage will be achieved, reports Reuters. ...more

Novell: Open Source software will revolutionise the industry

During his keynote at the Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco yesterday, Novell's Vice Chairman Chris Stone, said that the choice and freedom for end users that Open Source software makes possible will revolutionise the industry. 'Open Source offers [customers] the flexibility to change.. ...more

Borland bundles for e-business

Borland has put together a collection of software design and development tools - entitled Borland Enterprise Studio Java Edition, or "The Studio" - that targets Java-based e-commerce applications. Bundling together its JBuilder Enterprise Edition with programs from Rational Software and Macromedia, the collection is meant to provide a complete design, development and management system. Contents of "The Studio" include the following:JBuilder Enterprise Edition (for Java development) Borland AppServer (for managing distributed applications) Rational Rose Modeler 2001 (for visual modelling at the design stage) Rational Rose with JBuilder integration (for round-trip engineering between Rational Rose models and the Java applications) Rational Unified Process (to help with a best-practice approach to development) Macromedia Dreamweaver UltraDev 4 (for Web development)There's more info on the Borland site here. ...more

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New Bagle variants spread havoc

The new variants of the Bagle virus discovered Friday have caused havoc over the weekend, responsible for more than two million infections. UK security company MessageLabs says that incidents of Bagle variants BA and BB in particular are proving prolific, among a raft of Bagles discovered around the same time: -AT, -AU, -BC, and -BD. All harvest addresses from local files and use those addresses in the 'from' field. ...more