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Students will get laptops with plan
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Every student in grades one through eight in the Birmingham city school system will receive a laptop computer under a tentative agreement Mayor-elect Larry Langford has reached with a foundation that provides computers in developing countries, an adviser to Langford said Monday.
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Microsoft launches OOXML drive in Philippines
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Microsoft and industry body the Computing Technology Industry Association have teamed up to drive the adoption of Office Open XML in the Philippines.
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NASCAR drivers get boost from HPC
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John Picklo, manager of high-performance computing (HPC) at Chrysler, describes himself simply as an "IT guy" who's also a NASCAR fan. And he will be rooting Sunday for drivers of Dodge cars in the final race of this year's Nextel Cup.
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Computer Programs and Systems, Inc. Announces Migration of CPSI System to Linux Operating System
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Computer Programs and Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CPSI - News), a leading provider of healthcare information solutions, today announced the migration of the CPSI healthcare information system to the Linux operating system.
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Google's Android Mobile Platform and the Enterprise
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Search king Google has unveiled Android, its open-source platform for the smartphones of tomorrow. What will it mean for corporate IT? Perhaps a greater number of targeted, portable applications that hop from phone to phone, for starters.
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Open Access bill vetoed
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Supporters of the open access movement (OA), the open-source-inspired community that promotes free access to academic research, are disappointed but not discouraged by the defeat of a bill that would have required research published by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the United States to be available to the public.
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Linux gains ground in enterprise
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Linux has already permanently changed the enterprise desktop landscape, and is set to grow further, according to a new report from Forrester Research.
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Does Hilf speak for Microsoft on open source?
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Information Week has published a fawning interview with Microsoft’s Bill Hilf (right), now general manager of Windows Server marketing and platform strategy, stating he was “revealing” the company’s open source strategy.
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what makes firefox 3
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'...At some point, of course, the number of “bugs we’ll ship with” will hit 100%, unless we manage to produce the first piece of bug free software I’ve ever worked with, but even with such numerical truisms aside, the picture here isn’t as simple as it seems.
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CouchDB 0.7.0
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"The CouchDB development team is proud to announce CouchDB version 0.7.0 is now available at http://code.google.com/p/couchdb/downloads/list ..."
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Working with Rails – Setting up and connecting to a database
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"In this article, authors Elliot Smith and Rob Nichols explain the setup of a new Rails application and how to integrate it with other data sources. Specifically, this article focuses on turning the abstract data structure for Intranet into a Rails application..."
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The *New* Spread Firefox (beta) is Here!
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"After many months of hard work by a variety of parties, the new Spread Firefox has finally arrived (in beta form…the full-on launch will follow before long). Although there’s still more to be done, we all feel like this is a big step forward for SFx and our open source marketing efforts..."
http://newsfx.spreadfirefox.com/
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Ruby On Rails and Emacs
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"I started playing with RoR and of course I use Emacs for this. The following describes setting up Emacs for RoR development."
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The Mozilla Foundation and the Perl 6 on Parrot Grant
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"Last week, the Perl Foundation announced that the Mozilla Foundation has awarded a development grant to Patrick Michaud to work on the Perl 6 on Parrot compiler. Thank you, Mozilla Foundation..."
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