For the past decade, Asterisk has prospered as an open source VoIP PBX (define). Now it's poised for greater traction, courtesy of a new joint effort with IBM. "Asterisk for Smart Cube is a customized version of Asterisk Business Edition, which has administration capabilities built into the Smart Cube Smart Desk GUI," Engler said.

After close to two years of development and preliminary marketing in India, IBM's Smart Cube application appliances went on sale last Tuesday in its home market in the United States, moving one step closer to a worldwide launch.

Sometimes there are ideas that won’t go away. The other day, the Linux Magazine publisher asked me about a “cluster of smart phones.” As the processors in cell phones continue to get more powerful, the question is actually worth asking because many smart phones only need to be smart part of the time. Cluster HPC mavens are always looking for latent CPU cycles, why not check your pocket.

Last article we introduced the SMART capabilities of hard drives (who knew your drives were SMART?). In this article smartmontools, an application for examining the SMART attributes and trigger self tests, is examined.

Imagine owning a smart phone that you can hack just as freely as a PC. OpenMoko is an embedded Linux-based mobile platform, and the Neo Freerunner is OpenMoko's slick little touch-screen smart phone that runs OpenMoko.

Men and women could compare Samsung Galaxy S2 and HTC Sensation which could be the best smart phone after all. Actually both smart phones are supported by one particular. 2 GHz dual core processors which often can be great support for smart phone utility.

Google is a pretty smart company, and it employs some pretty smart people. A couple of weeks ago, one of those smart people – security engineer Tavis Ormandy – figured out how to use a bug in Windows XP’s Help and Support Center to hijack PCs through hacked websites. And last week, he decided to show the world how to do it, too.

I haven't run the AbiWord word processor in an age. I barely ever run OpenOffice, or MS Office, or any office software outside of Google Docs. I decided to fire it up, and while I was looking for the word-wrap settings (still don't know if these exist ...) instead learned that AbiWord now offers SMART QUOTES.

Recently, a few of us had a discussion about translating the book to Malayalam. GNU/Linux is now available in a lot of schools - and a local language version would be a boon to many smart kids who are capable of learning things by themselves. I suggested that we have a go at writing an `orignal’ book - mostly because I was having this pet idea of writing a book for kids for a long time.