Firm known for its Crusoe processor signs deal with Chinese 2000 Holdings to use Transmeta's Midori version of Linux in mobile and embedded devices. Two firms plan to target markets in China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan. [The Register]

The fight for an open hardware platform is very real, and the power has swung from the PC leaders to the entertainment industry.

Article discussing the reasoning behind the coffee pot camera, its history, and its end.

Criticisms of Wikipedia and of arguments used by its admirers in an article by Andrew Orlowski.

Opinion article by Andrew Orlowski suggesting that Wikipedia has a long way to go before it's a stand-in for libraries and scholarly publications.

The growth of the spam problem in 2002 has been exponential, writes Kevin Murphy . Companies that sell spam filtering software say currently the percentage of email that is spam could be 20%, 33%, or even up to 50%, compared to less than 10% a year ago.

Includes: MSXML may ignore IE security zone settings during a request for data from a Web site; and a VBscript problem which allows an attacker to read files on a victim's local drive, or eavesdrop on his browsing session.

Essay by Peter Abrahams pointing out "one of the weaknesses of most search engines and the Web itself: you cannot sort by date."

Provides a brief guide to the new model of this Linux PDA.

Kieren McCarthy's article about Muuss' death.