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The newest edition of the Novell-sponsored OpenSUSE Project's Linux OS, contains a number of new enhancements built both internally and through the open source community.

Research in Motion's Q3 2009 report confirmed that the company met its revised projection from earlier in the month, and indicated that perhaps things aren't so bad in the "land-grab" wireless-handset market.

Last December 2, Palm predicted it would see revenues of $2.75 billion to $2.78 billion; the final number was $2.78 billion, a year-to-year increase of 66 percent (from $1.67 billion). The company's stock returned 69 cents / share, up four cents over the same period last year.

Palm plans to ship a consumer-oriented smartphone -- based on its upcoming Nova OS -- in the first half of next year, while continuing to focus its Windows Mobile-based Treo on the enterprise, Palm's CEO said today.

In a conference call with financial analysts late Thursday, Palm officials gave virtual confirmation to reports that the product announcements Palm is planning for CES next month will revolve around Palm's Linux-based Nova OS.

Chairman Kevin Martin can't win for losing. Taking the President's and a powerful senator's advice yesterday in delaying a critical vote on nationwide free broadband...again, two more congressmen are sounding legal alarms.

After the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission took the advice of both President Bush and powerful senators this week, delaying a vote on the auctioning of the so-called AWS-3 block of spectrum until sometime after the DTV transition next February, a pair of congressmen sent a joint letter to FCC Chairman Kevin Martin advising him that he may have broken the law in so doing.

Last week, Apple evangelist John Geleynse reportedly called the iPhone a gaming console in various capacities. With a deluge of top-tier licenses coming to the iPhone this week, we have begun to see what Geleynse was presaging.

Apparently Geleynse's comments at last week's Apple Developer Conference in San Jose weren't so much predictions as fanfare preceding a veritable onslaught of iPhone games.

Sony's ACID Music Studio is a loop-based music creation tool favored by electronic and hip-hop artists. Now in its tenth year, Sony announced its social network for Acid artists will be more tightly integrated with Acid Xpress 7.

AcidPlanet is a social network for musicians with a popularity-based ranking system similar to PureVolume or Reverb Nation. Users can upload their original music to connect with fans and other musicians, or to compete popularity contests such as "The Duel." There is also an associated Web radio station that plays the best artists from the site.

Beyond rolling out a new graphics chipset for netbooks this week, Nvidia launched the beta edition of updated drivers for Windows XP and Vista notebook PCs outfitted with its graphics processors.

In addition to introducing the GeForce 9400M "Ion" graphics chipset for netbooks, Nvidia is now offering user-downloadable updated graphics drivers which extend its high-end CUDA architecture to notebook PCs.

Yesterday, local TV stations in 42 states and DC participated in the first nationwide digital television consumer readiness test. Broadcasters turned off their analog signals some time between 5:00 and 7:00 pm ET.

Aside from some noteworthy exceptions, the results so far seem largely favorable.

Fraught by competition from YouTube and Hulu, video start-up Joost is abandoning its P2P-enabled Windows and Mac client software in favor of a strictly Flash-based Web site for showing movies and TV.

Online video portal Joost has announced that, starting tomorrow, its Windows and Macintosh software clients will stop working. Users will instead need to go to the company's Flash-based Web site in order to access Joost's catalog of movies, TV shows, and music videos.

The Online Services division of Microsoft may look, work, and behave very differently come next quarter, as the marketing managers who had responsibility for it this year are making room for what could be a very new breed of executive.

Ending a string of appointments to general management and oversight positions in search of the one that would be just right, Microsoft announced yesterday the departure of Brad Goldberg, the one-time general manager of its most troubled Online Services division. The move could be indicative of a shift of mindset in the Live Search division from marketing to research, after the appointment of Dr. Lu to a president's post in charge of Online Services, effectively overseeing the post vacated by Kevin Johnson, that in turn oversees Goldberg's former post.

Record net revenue and income were high points in Wednesday's earnings call from Take-Two Interactive. But losses continue to mount, and astringent initial guidance for 2009 was accompanied by some sharp words for the analyst crowd.

There's money in the games game, if you don't mind a little whiplash now and then. The company, which offers such titles as the Grand Theft Auto series, Bioshock, and the 2K Sports roster, reported net income for its fiscal fourth quarter of $97.1 million or $1.28 / share, and non-GAPP net income of $158.2 million or $2.08 / share, for fiscal year 2008. In 2007's Q4, it had reported a net loss of, respectively, $138.4 million or $1.93 / share, and $81.0 million or $1.13 / share. Gross profit for the year, by the way, was $548.8 million -- that's right, over half a billion, more than double the 2007 take ($246.8 million).

A federal judge in Los Angeles could be less than pleased with lawyers for the Recording Industry Association of America after the group did something it was specifically instructed not to do.

The RIAA is currently working to line up cases against University of Southern California students accused of illegal file-sharing. On October 7, District Court judge Manuel L. Real gave Motown Record Company (the lead in the case) permission to subpoena USC to get the name of a student, whom the complaint named only as "John Doe."

Unlock that phone! French regulators has ruled that Apple and the French telco Orange cannot maintain a long-term exclusive salad...erm, carrier arrangement for the iPhone in France.

This isn't a final ruling, but France's national Competition Council held that a complaint filed on September 18 by rival telco Bouygues Telecom has enough merit that competition for mobile customers was deemed seriously and immediately threatened. The decision (PDF available here, in French) is, therefore, provisional. It would limit exclusivity to a period of three months.

Sprint-Nextel's new dual-mode modem will work on both Sprint's 3G EVDO network and Clearwire's 4G WiMAX -- apparently including a WiMAX network set for commercial launch on January 6 of 2009 in Portland, OR.

Sprint Nextel today rolled out plans for a dual-mode modem designed to operate on both its 3G EVDO network and the 4G WiMAX network now being built by its business partner Clearwire.

A common but dangerous vulnerability spotted weeks ago on American Express's site was plugged this week after the hole gained blog and then press attention. But there may have been a faster, better way.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities are unfortunately quite common. An XSS hole allows an attacker to scarf up a legitimate customer's login info, in this case as he enters the site. In the case of the AmEx hole, that information could later be used by the attacker to snoop around the customer's personal information, or worse.