INFO: A Step-By-Step Guide To Tapping the Power of the Mobile Enterprise

This step-by-step guide will help you successfully integrate handhelds today, and develop a long-term mobile strategy. A must read if you have such plans for your organisation.

NEWS: Fossil discovery upsets theories on human origins
Playing in the dirt used to be such a harmless passtime when we were young. It seems our anthropologist buddies are still doing it, and they have found something very interesting! Read More.

INFO: The clock is ticking for Simputer
The Simputer is a low cost portable alternative to PCs, by which the benefits of IT can reach the common man. It has a special role in the third world because it ensures that illiteracy is no longer a barrier to handling a computer. The key to bridging the digital divide is to have shared devices that permit truly simple and natural user interfaces based on sight, touch and audio. - Simputer.org | Overview Presentation (PPT) | Demo Presentation (PPT)

INFO: Time for hospitals to go digital?
Emerging technologies promise to transform medicine, including the way new hospitals are designed! However, doctors still doubt the new advances in IT will be of any real value to them. Are these just new toys, or do they hold promise. Read More.

INFO: Web servers more vulnerable than ever before!

"The Web is more vulnerable to attack now than at any time previously." That's the stark conclusion of Netcraft's latest monthly survey of Web servers, which expresses concerns over the emergence of serious vulnerabilities in both Microsoft's IIS and Apache Web servers over the last month. - The Register

Is it time for us to re-think the web model? Do we really need to web-ify everything? Is it not better if somethings stayed as applications rather than having to deal with cookies, and digital certificates? And, then we find another set of vulnerabilities?!!

INFO: KF Web Server: A Free, easy to use, HTTP server with advanced functionality for Windows
The KeyFocus Web Server is a free HTTP Server that can host an unlimited number of web sites. Its small size, low system requirements, and easy administration, make it the perfect choice for both professional, and amateur web developers alike. You can use existing MIME types, or configure your own. Hence, you can make it work with PHP & PERL, and even add a log file analysis tool!
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INFO: Lycoris' Desktop/LX - Another Linux Distribution?

For those looking for an inexpensive, simple-to-use alternative to the Windows operating system, Linux may leap to mind, but since Corel abandoned its effort, no vendor has concentrated strictly on making Linux friendly enough for newbies. Now, the US$ 30.00 Desktop/LX distribution from upstart Lycoris demonstrates that Microsoft's monopoly on entry-level operating systems for the PC, could be coming to a close.

Lycoris' distribution itself, however, seems to be nothing more than a KDE interface on a Linux kernel with X11 server. Lycoris makes you pay just for adding a 60 day e-mail support, a 30 page installation guide, and their marketing effort to make you feel at home with Linux!! Take a look at Lycoris' offering and then, contrast it with what Red Hat gives you.

INFO: A multi-platform, project management desktop
The Intellisys Project Desktop is designed for those who want an uncomplicated and effective project management tool. The goal of Intellisys is to provide this project management software as an affordable and viable solution which meets the needs of users, across platforms. It runs on Unix and Linux too (besides Windows and Mac). Click here for more details.

OPINION: Disruptive Technologies - Disrupting Productivity? (thought capsule)
Disruptive technologies are by their very definition, technologies that change the way you work, and live. These technologies are catalysts for change in today's technology dependent world. They bring in new standards, improve the way things are done, and in the short term, seem to increase productivity, and profitablility. Or so we believe!

What happens when you are required to change your infrastructure to accomodate this new (must have) technology? Who bears the costs? With so many companies coming up with so many technologies, does it become any easier to decide on technologies you want to use?

Would you rather look around for existing technologies, and put them together to get your desired results? Or would you rather pay top dollar to ride the FIRST wave?