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Red Hat’s recent changes on the desktop platform are pretty interesting. If you are interested in Linux, or OS concepts in general, take a look at the Fedora Project. Fedora is focused on the total solution : core OS + packages. High on my wishlist is an update notification and installation for all packages on my machine, combining concepts from Red Hat Network and Ximian’s Red Carpet. Centralized updates in exchange for something either from the vendor or from my pocket….

Hasbro released high quality PDFs of their Monopoly money. Print your own money!…

On Tuesday Intel debuted mobile Pentium 4s with hyper-threading….

Macromedia now has a public beta of its Central product. Create smart clients heavily loaded with Web services, and place them on any system supporting Flash….

According to an article in today’s Wall Street Journal, Amazon.com has a new subsidiary, A9, to develop its own Web search technology. They are supposedly hiring 30 software developers but I cannot find the company’s Web site and there is nothing listed in Amazon’s jobs section….

Joel Spolsky has a very cool new office design, as well as ideas on what it takes to keep employees working optimally….

“The future of the World Wide Web”, a speech given to the Royal Society by Tim Berners-Lee on Monday, is now available as video-on-demand. RealPlayer required….

The September 18 edition of The Economist carries an interesting article on Sun. “Sun is sending an unmistakable message to customers as well as to rivals such as Microsoft and IBM: software is shockingly overvalued.” “Sun now sees Java, a software brand, as a prime asset to be exploited.” Sun and Java have more brand weight in a corporate board than Red Hat. Sun is able to tout that it knows enough about security for its software to be deployed in the front lines of Iraq and inside the CIA that a corporation should entrust them with their data. The…

World-Wide Media eXchange is an experimental research project run by the Interactive Visual Media Group at Microsoft Research. Take a photograph, stamp it with longitude and latitude, and users can find your photographs on a map….

The October 6 issue of Fortune examines a gadget makeover at the hands of a team of geeks. (Dean Heistad, Ted Larson, and Paul Ross) “all they wanted to do was send digital pictures of the kids to Grandma. Heistad came back with a shopping list that would get them that, plus a home theater, a wireless network, new computing, a tricked-out music system, and GPS positioning capabilities.”…