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Tuesday, October 22, 2002

3GHz Pentium 4 on its way. Get ready for Intel's 3GHz Pentium 4. PC makers will unfurl systems containing the high-performance chip just days before the Comdex trade show. [CNET News.com]
3:41:38 PM

Adobe to Support Digital Signatures. SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Adobe Systems Inc. has long offered its Acrobat Reader software for free, a calculated move that has helped make its Portable Document Format a de facto standard on the Internet. By The Associated Press. [New York Times: Technology]
3:25:53 PM

Microsoft readies Office overhaul. The software giant prepares to release the first test version of Office 11, with its sights set on deeper integration into larger businesses. [CNET News.com]
3:24:07 PM

Chrysler adopts Linux for vehicle crash testing - Computerworld - Chrysler Group is using a new Linux cluster computer for crash simulation testing and analysis in an effort to make safer cars and trucks.
In an announcement today, Chrysler, a unit of Germany-based DaimlerChrysler AG, said the new system is expected to improve simulation performance by 20%, while saving about 40% in costs compared with the Unix-based hardware used previously.
3:19:39 PM

Novell to Ship MySQL With NetWare 6

Novell to Ship MySQL With NetWare 6
Posted by CowboyNeal on Monday October 21, @02:25PM
from the bundling-up-for-the-winter dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Coming close on the heels of their announcement that they've ported PostgreSQL to NetWare, Novell announced today that they will begin shipping MySQL with NetWare 6. Owing to customer and partner doubts about the GPL, Novell has chosen the commercial version of MySQL, rather than the GPL'ed version."

[Slashdot]

3:11:09 PM

Judge: Disabilities Act doesn't cover Web. update A federal judge says Southwest Airlines doesn't have to make its site more accessible to the blind. The Americans with Disabilities Act, she says, doesn't apply to virtual space. [CNET News.com]

From /. -

ADA Doesn't Apply to Web
Posted by Hemos on Tuesday October 22, @02:29PM
from the changing-the-rules dept.
djmoore writes "A federal judge has ruled that the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) does not apply to the Web. U.S. District Judge Patricia Seitz dismissed with prejudice a suit demanding that Southwest Airlines make its website more accessible to the blind, saying that the suit would create new rights for the disabled without setting appropriate standards. Judge Seitz also rejected plaintiffs' claim that the Web is a 'place of exhibition, display, and a sales establishment,' one of the twelve categories covered by the ADA, on the grounds that the law only covers physical places." Our original article has more details.

3:09:57 PM