Seagate attends the San Fran Music Tech Summit, meeting with various professionals working together to bring music, technology and the web. FreeAgent Drives were handed out at the raffle and everyone at the show was stoked to see Seagate there and check out the new FreeAgent line.

The room is packed with 40 or so folks at the OpenID/OAuth UX Summit. Companies with representation included Yahoo, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, MySpace, Plaxo, AOL, SixApart, JanRain, Vidoop, Chi.mp, and Magnolia, and projects including Internet2 and DiSo, all talking about their experience with OpenID and sharing ideas for moving it forward

Why unplugged? Well, just like a few other guys on this event (I have counted six on the same situation), I have no notebook, no iPhone, and I was not connected to the Web the four days I get there.But to be honest, I feel good at the end. Why?

This is an interesting post about Evan Williams (founder of Twitter) talking at the FM event. The audio file is a little hard to hear but worth turning up.

Part 2 of lightning session talks recorded this year at the Maemo Summit in Berlin. A wide range of topics including the Maemo Bug Jar, QEdje, and PyPy.

The company's Smart Protection Network represents an attempt to counter the vast computational capacity of cybercriminals and their botnets.

Just because Linux is open, that doesn't mean that Linux Foundation events are open.

Although computers get bigger, run faster and accomplish more amazing feats all the time, they still store data in a 1970s-era file system. But that may be about to change. Ted Ts'o, a Linux Foundation fellow, and Chris Mason, Oracle's director of kernel engineering, will provide a sneak peak of the file systems of the future

October 9, 2008, San Salvador, El Salvador: Advocates for women's rights in El Salvador are calling on their government to bar the President of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, from attending an upcoming presidential summit because of his attempts to repress and intimidate women in his country. Mr Ortega is accused of threatening women leaders, and of sexually abusing his stepdaughter during the 1980s.

The origins of life in our galaxy and the search for alien life outside our solar system will be at the forefront of discussions by experts in Edinburgh.