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Working-Class Wireless

Far from traditional office environments, wireless now supports a wide range of blue-collar applications, like a 10,000-truck service fleet and 'smart' bulldozers in a coal mine.

Getting frugal: Red Hat Network's low-cost upgrade to Red Hat 9

It took longer than expected, but Joe Barr is pleased with RHN's budget-friendly upgrade.

Microsoft pushes collaboration in business apps

As expected, Microsoft Corp. is pushing out a series of enhancements to its business applications that will boost collaboration and integration capabilities among employees, customers and partners. This week at the Convergence 2003 customer conference here, the company's business solutions unit announced a new portal interface for its products and showcased upcoming technologies that will be part of its Microsoft Business Network Web-services-based collaboration framework.

Linux takes backseat in new Motorola phones

Motorola Inc. grabbed a lot of headlines in February when it announced the world's first mobile phone that runs Linux, however, developers won't be able to create Linux applications and run those on the phone because Linux is not secure enough, Motorola spokesman David Rudd said Wednesday.