The 6th incarnation of Elmer's blog
Verisign’s payment gateway will become part of PayPal.
eBay, VeriSign Strike Online Payment Deal
Online auctioneer eBay Inc. announced Monday that it plans to buy VeriSign Inc.’s payment gateway business for $370 million, as it looks to further secure transactions by eBay users.
The research including videos, results, and some analysis is available at http://www.betterdesktop.org/ and is provides some insight into the usability of the OpenSuse. Developers and those lookng to migrate users to Linux desktops will find this data useful.
Novell Shares Linux Usability Research Videos
Novell Inc. released a large amount of primary desktop-usage research—including more than 200 video clips of users bumbling their way through unfamiliar computer interfaces—to the software development community Monday, as part of a new program aimed at making Linux desktops a more comfortable fit for users.
Oracle Scores Open-Source InnoDB Storage Engine
Oracle on Friday purchased InnoDB, the Finnish open-source database company whose add-on table storage engine for MySQL rivals MySQL’s own MyISAM in popularity.InnoDB Oy Inc.’s database engine isn’t stand-alone. It is distributed as part of the MySQL database. Moreover, InnoDB’s contractual relationship with MySQL is up for renewal next year.
MAKE: Blog: DIY GPS tracking
Mod a GPS enabled Nextel and fauxjack yourself…or your car, or your kid, or a big dog, or an elephant. We really, really want to track an elephant. Mologogo is a free service that will track a “friends” GPS enabled cell phone from another phone(gps not required) or on the web. It currently works on pretty much any Nextel phone with Java and GPS – even a $60 no-contract Boost Mobile phone.
freshmeat.net: Project details for FreeCast
Freecast is a peer-to-peer streaming system that makes it possible to stream Ogg audio or video to a large number of listeners from a DSL connection. The client can be customized graphically, doesn’t require a user configuration step, and is updated at startup when needed.