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Massachusetts Grapples with Open Sources Cost to the Disabled
BOSTON—The blind man in the red shirt stood up.
A German Shepherd in a leather harness dozed at his feet, under the folding plastic chairs,...
Ruby on Rails 1.0 Ships
Ruby on Rails 1.0, the official fully baked release of the popular open-source development framework is now available.
David Heinemeier Hansson, the creator of Ruby...
Quanta Building MITs $100 Laptops
The Massachusetts Institute of Technologys Media Lab has announced that Taiwanese device maker Quanta Computer Inc. has been selected to design and build the...
Oracle Certifies PeopleSoft Apps on Fusion Middleware Stack
Oracle Corp. announced Tuesday that it has certified its PeopleSoft Enterprise applications to run on Oracle Fusion Middleware 10g Release 2, a move that...
Chinas Red Flag Sees Desktop as Linux Battlefield
Zhongyuan Zheng, vice president of Red Flag Software Co. Ltd. of Beijing, said he believes the next big battleground in China (as well as...
Vonage Answers Call for Mobile Wi-Fi Phone
Vonage Marketing Inc. has partnered with telecommunications equipment designer UTStarcom Inc. to produce Vonages first portable Wi-Fi handset, the companies announced Tuesday.
UTStarcom designed and...
Open Source Content Has No Quality Control
The flap over the man who spoofed the Wikipedia with a bogus entry claiming a journalist was involved in both Kennedy assassinations and spent...
Advertisers Tune In New Video Platforms
BOSTON—Oct. 12, 2005: a day that will live in infamy.
If youre trying to remember the notable event that occurred on this date than youre...
Where Do You Put Your Security Dollars?
In a recent panel discussion I was on it was suggested that spending on the conventional threat mitigation aspects of security was headed for...
Swiss Government Switches Systems to Linux
Novell Inc. Tuesday announced an agreement with the government of Switzerland to convert some 3,000 of its servers to the companys SUSE Linux operating...