Microsoft is claimed to have deleted documents that are crucial for competition to be restored
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Tux for president
The election season is upon us once again. The rabble have largely dropped out of the race and we’re left with just a few candidates. So who am I? I’m Tux. And I’m throwing my hat into the ring. I might as well, I can’t keep the thing on my silly head.
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Fresno Unified officials buy 1,000 wireless laptops that will fit on students' desktops.
Thursday, school officials said they purchased 1,000 wireless laptops that fit on a desk alongside textbooks and notebooks, as well as give students the opportunity to build a digital portfolio of essays, drawings and other creations.
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Marines Find Value in Virtualization
The U.S. Marine Corps plans to take server virtualization software into war -- literally -- as part of an effort to improve the way it deploys IT on the battlefield. "The Marine Corps has always packed stuff up and taken it to the field -- that is not new," said Maj. Carl Brodhun, the USMC's project officer for enterprise virtualization.
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Nokia N810 Internet Tablet Released
Nokia's N810 Internet Tablet finally makes it to the US, and it'll cost you $480. For once, Nokia's eschewing of the term "phone" turns out to make sense: The only connection option you get with the N810 are WiFi and Bluetooth.
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Obama Voices Support for ODF
The senator promises to put government data online in universally accessible formats if elected.
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States shore up pitch to extend Microsoft oversight
A number of states including California and New York filed legal briefs Friday supporting their earlier request to extend the government's restrictive antitrust oversight of Microsoft Corp. The states said in a court filing that extended oversight of the Redmond, Wash.-based software giant is necessary for "meaningful marketplace competition."
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Open Formats Enter the Presidential Debate
Those of us who live in America are currently in the midst of that most protracted, expensive and (often) tedious of all democratic processes: the quadrennial quest to find, and perhaps even elect, the most able leader to guide the nation into the future. Part and parcel to that spectacle is a seemingly endless torrent of printed words and video.
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House passes Restore Act with no telecom immunity provision
The House of Representatives has passed the Restore Act, which facilitates broad surveillance of foreign terror groups while restoring the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Court's oversight of communications between foreign and domestic surveillance targets.
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U.S. Department of Defense announces open-source conference
It wasn't very long ago that open-source developers struggled to make the market believe that open source was secure, ready for prime-time adoption, etc. Now the debate has shifted to demonstrating just how widespread adoption is and and pointing to case studies of how to get the most from open source.
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Columbia Law Professor Tim Wu: Opening the Airwaves
On Nov. 5, Google unveiled what many in the phone business had long awaited. CEO Eric Schmidt explained how the search giant was ready to create new software for mobile phones that would shake up the telecom status quo.
Read more »Your Health Care Quality, Privacy, Security and Tax Dollars Are at Stake
A stark future awaits American health care if the Veterans Affairs (VA) system and Cerner is allowed to go forward with announced plans to replace the VA's successful public domain laboratory software, in need of update, with a proprietary one.
Read more »US Navy acquisitions site uses open source CMS
The US Navy's research and development and acquisition policy site at acquisition.navy.mil uses eZ Systems' open source content management system to help civilian and military users access the Navy's myriad policy documents. Before the switch to eZ Publish in November 2003, the site was an unorganized collection of hard-to-navigate static HTML pages.
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Giving the Lie to Patents and Innovation
One of the enduring soap operas this year has involved the ongoing patent infringement threats by Microsoft against “Linux, OpenOffice, email, and other open source software.” According to Microsoft, 235 of its (unnamed) patents are being infringed, and it should be entitled to be paid for this use of its intellectual property.
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Open Source Developers Must Chart Clear Defense in the Patent Wars
The CEO of Barracuda Networks explains how the US patent system is broken and what open source developers can do to protect software innovation.
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