It weighs less than a bottle of Coke, is smaller than an A5 pad and is so cheap the odd one left on a bus wouldn't break the bank. A lightweight laptop, hailed by self-confessed techno-geek Stephen Fry as the future of computing, has found an unexpected market: schools.
Read more »Mini-laptop sweeps through schools
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Open for the Future
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Programs such as the Army’s Future Combat Systems and organizations such as the Defense Information Systems Agency and the Defense Intelligence Agency are using open technologies using non-proprietary software.
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Dutch "government ISV" adds ODF support
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If I understood this Dutch article correctly, the Dutch ISV Centric, which seems to very active in the public sector, is adding ODF support to their applications. Apparently the adoption of ODF by the City of Heerenveen and the City of Groningen had some impact on the decision.
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Net Neutrality Take 2
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The last time Net Neutrality was taken up by congress, a concerned citizen felt it necessary to voice his opinion to his local representative.
He forwarded me the response he received in hopes I would share it with you dear readers.
Feel free to scroll down, click and read the whole thing, it is an excellent example of political speech and passing the buck.
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Philippines open source bill gets Sun's support
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Familiar battle lines are being drawn over pending legslation mandating free and open source (FOSS) software for government and educational use in the Philippines.
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The Ministry of Finance in the Republic of Macedonia uses Debian GNU Linux in its servers
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Miroslav Jovanovic, former head of Macedonian Ministry of Finance IT department, gave an overview of the Open Source utilisation at desktops and servers during a conference organized by the United Nations Development Programme at the capital Skopje in 2007.
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Can Linux Stage a Coup D'Etat?
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In some countries' governments, the use of Linux is often viewed as a cultural thing. Linux is closely aligned with the concept that software should be free. "In Europe, governments take open source very seriously. They have a fear of being locked into one vendor," said Paul Smith, vice president of government sales operations for Red Hat. "Linux gives governments leverage against the fear of being controlled."
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OLPC computers on their way to Birmingham, Alabama
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The city will be deploying 15,000 OLPCs to its school system. The OLPCs will be given to all first- through eighth-graders in the city's school system. Some of the computers are expected to be deployed as early as March, with the rest to follow by the beginning of the 2008-9 school year. The first of these small Linux laptops will be used in pilot programs as teachers get up to speed on these computers.
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Water researchers dive into EnterpriseDB
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South Africa’s nTier has completed a migration of the Water Research Commission’s Compiere ERP system from Oracle to the PostgreSQL-based EnterpriseDB. The commission made the move from the Oracle database to EnterpriseDB because the EnterpriseDB relational database was a more affordable option, nTier said in a statement today.
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In Brazil, a local alternative to the OLPC
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The citizens of Serrana, Brazil, are not waiting around for Intel or Nicholas Negroponte to deliver low-cost PCs to their school children. Instead, they're taking the matter into their own hands.
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Touchscreen Desktop Instead of OLPC?
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Instead of buying OLPCs or Classmate PCs, one community in Brazil is looking at their own solution to bring technology into their schools (using Linux of course). Their solution is a touchscreen desktop computer, according to CNet. At around $550 and lacking the mobility of the OLPC, it is not, however, clear if this new solution is really better.
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Ex-FCC chair vows government control over the Google Brain
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"The Cloud Computing Revolution will be regulated, according to former Federal Communications Chairman (FCC) Reed Hundt. [...] Hundt closes by claiming that Carr's book - wrong or right - will trigger a much needed public debate about how much regulation the "Internet’s next phase of evolution" needs..."
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Germany upgrades ODF to "recommended"
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The new version 4.0 of the document "Standards and Architectures for eGovernment Applications" (SAGA) by the German Ministry of the Interior now recommends ODF for text documents. In SAGA 3.0 ODF was listed as "under observation". Nice to see ODF being upgraded by the SAGA expert group!
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Open Source Emergency Service CAD Program Released
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The Open Information Systems for Emergency Services (Open ISES) Project recently released their latest version of an open source Computer Aided Dispatch program called Tickets. They have also begun work and released our first draft of Cards, an Emergency Medical Dispatch program.
Read more »NSA releases new version of Linux software
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The U.S. National Security Agency has released its own version of the open-source computer operating system Linux, which offers enhanced security for users.
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