Linspire, Inc. today announced the availability of its new easy-to-use desktop Linux operating system, Linspire Five-0, at more than 1,000 major national retail stores. These include some of the world’s leading electronics retailers such as Best Buy, CompUSA , Fry’s Electronics, Micro Center and J & R Computer World. The newly released product features enhancements in every core application and provides easy-to-use desktop Linux for consumers.

For more information about where to purchase Linspire Five-0 and a complete list of retail locations selling Linspire, visit http://www.linspire.com/fp.

A Hungarian man who cracked into the corporate network of Swedish telecoms giant Ericsson was jailed for three years on Monday.

Csaba Richter, a 26-year-old IT consultant, pleaded guilty to accessing sensitive documents on Ericsson’s intranet. If the case had gone to trial he stood to go to jail for up to six years on charges of “industrial espionage and illegal use of secret information”.

Source: The Register

Yahoo on Tuesday night plans to unveil an updated toolbar for the Mozilla Foundation’s open-source Firefox browser that offers the company’s Anti-Spy adware and spyware removal software for computers running Microsoft’s Windows operating system. Yahoo, also will make its basic Firefox toolbar, without Anti-Spy, available for use with Linux and Apple Computer’s Macintosh operating systems. The toolbars and Anti-Spy software are free.

The Linux and Mac Firefox toolbars offer persistent bookmarks, site-specific search capability, Babelfish-based site translation, and RSS/Atom subscription feed capabilities.

Source: News.com