heise online news 30/09/2008

heise online news 30/09/2008 www.heise-online.co.uk Overview of the news from the past 24 hours heise online news First details of Nokia's touch-screen smartphone Nokia will officially present its first Symbian S60 touch-screen smartphone on Thursday, but some details of this long awaited multimedia mobile are already circulating on the internet › Read article     Dell launches a cut-down Linux version of its netbook Linux version is cheaper but has a slightly lower specification - and one detail to outrage the purists. › Read article     Microsoft and Nokia adopt jQuery jQuery, the popular open source JavaScript framework, has been adopted by Microsoft and Nokia as component of their official development platforms › Read article     Open source Atheros HAL to help Wifi developers under Linux Atheros, the Wifi chipset developer, has published the source code for a hardware abstraction layer for Wifi under Linux (802.11a/b/g) › Read article     Service to warn customers if account details appear on hacker forums ASC will warn customers if their names or account details appear on the internet, allowing them to take appropriate measures to prevent further misuse › Read article     Digium betas Skype/Asterisk integration Digium opens an invitation-only beta to its new Skype for Asterisk gateway allowing the open source PBX to connect to the non-free Skype VoIP system › Read article     Ubuntu 7.04 fixes to end Users running Ubuntu 7.04, "Feisty Fawn" should look to upgrade their systems, as its eighteen month support period comes to an end in October › Read article     This newsletter is sent to in a multipart format. If you want to read it as plain text, you will have to change the display mode of your e-mail program. You are receiving heise online news because you subscribed at our website. If you no longer wish to receive the newsletter, you can cancel your subscription at http://www.heise-online.co.uk/newsletter/manage/news. For more news from the world of technology, subscribe to our other newsletters: Newsletter heise open source: All the latest about Free and Open Source software from heise online, including news, features, analysis and case studies. www.heise-online.co.uk/newsletter/manage/open Newsletter heise Security: IT security news and alerts to keep your systems secure, with features giving an in-depth look at the world of IT security. www.heise-online.co.uk/newsletter/manage/security Newsletter heise networks features: In-depth articles, tools and techniques for networking and communications. www.heise-online.co.uk/newsletter/manage/networks Legal notice Publishers: Christian Heise, Ansgar Heise, Christian Persson Editor-in-chief: Jonathan Bennett All rights reserved. Any copies or dissemination on any medium, either in part of whole, requires the written consent of the publisher. Copyright (c) 2008 Heise Media UK Ltd.