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December 13, 2007

Spring Integration boosts service-based apps (InfoWorld)

Filed under: Internet News, Science & Technology — News Update @ 2:35 pm

InfoWorld - SpringSource, the keepers of the popular Spring Framework for Java application development, this week introduced Spring Integration, a framework to ease enterprise integration.

Lonely Canadian shocked to get $85,000 phone bill (Reuters)

Filed under: Internet News, Science & Technology — News Update @ 1:53 pm

A Motorola KRZR K3 similar to the one used by a 22-year-old oil and gas well tester in rural northwest Alberta to rack up a $83,700 phone bill, is seen in a handout photo. A Canadian oil-field worker, stunned to get the C$85,000 ($83,700) cell phone bill, has had the charges reduced to C$3,400, but is still fighting them. REUTERS/Motorola/HandoutReuters - A Canadian oil-field worker, stunned to
get a C$85,000 ($83,700) cell phone bill, has had the charges
reduced to C$3,400, but is still fighting them.


Netherlands adopts open-source software (AP)

Filed under: Internet News, Science & Technology — News Update @ 12:30 pm

AP - The Dutch government has set a soft deadline of April 2008 for its agencies to start using open-source software ? freely distributed programs that anyone can modify ? the Netherlands Economic Affairs Ministry said Thursday.

December 12, 2007

Adobe open-sourcing data access technology (InfoWorld)

Filed under: Internet News, Science & Technology — News Update @ 11:01 pm

InfoWorld - Adobe Systems is announcing on Thursday plans to release source code for its high-performance remoting and messaging technology via an open source product called BlazeDS.

December 8, 2007

Microsoft Wants One Laptop Per Child System To Run Windows XP - InformationWeek

Filed under: Internet News, Science & Technology — News Update @ 6:52 pm

TechGadgets.in
Microsoft Wants One Laptop Per Child System To Run Windows XP
InformationWeek - Dec 6, 2007
The software maker wants OLPC to redesign its XO low-cost PC for children in developing nations. By Paul mcdougall Microsoft has asked the designers of a low-cost Linux laptop intended for children in developing nations to redesign the system so it can
Microsoft to Field Test PC For Developing Countries Wall Street Journal
More on Microsoft's effort to put XP on XO CNET News.com
PC World - DailyTech - Ars Technica - TG Daily
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Don’t get lost shopping for GPS (AP)

Filed under: Internet News, Science & Technology — News Update @ 6:50 pm

AP - Navigation gadgets are now so widely available no one needs to worry about getting lost anymore ? except when they’re trying to choose the right device.

JetBlue to test limited in-flight Net (AP)

Filed under: Internet News, Science & Technology — News Update @ 6:50 pm

Brad Garlinghouse, left, senior vice president of Yahoo, demonstrates the capabilities of a laptop during a media preview flight aboard 'BetaBlue,' an Airbus A320 aircraft equipped with an onboard wireless network, Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2007. JetBlue will start offering free online messaging services on one of its planes next week, becoming among the first airlines to offer in-flight Internet access. Passengers can use Yahoo e-mail and instant messaging services on laptops equipped with Wi-Fi wireless access. They can also check other personal and work e-mail on two BlackBerry models that have wireless capabilities. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)AP - JetBlue Airways Corp. will start offering limited e-mail and instant messaging services for free on one of its planes next week as airlines renew efforts to offer in-flight Internet access.


Films shot on camera phones get showcase (AP)

Filed under: Internet News, Science & Technology — News Update @ 6:49 pm

Masaki Fujihata, film professor at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music and one of the judges at the Pocket Film Festival, browses at one of 48 movies, all shot on camera-equipped cell phones, on display as the Pocket Film Festival opens in Yokaohama, south of Tokyo, Friday, Dec. 7, 2007. 'The cell phone is something you always carry around and so you can roll the camera on a whim,' he said. (AP Photo/Yuri Kageyama)AP - Masked and demure, she speaks from the tiny screen of a cell phone like a thumb-size fairy forever trapped inside. “Welcome home,” she says softly to the viewer. “Speak to me about anything.”


Open Source Group Sues Verizon (PC World)

Filed under: Internet News, Science & Technology — News Update @ 4:00 pm

PC World - The Software Freedom Law Center has says Verizon violates the copyright of the GNU GPL.

Kylie Minogue site unites fans via cell phones (Reuters)

Filed under: Internet News, Science & Technology — News Update @ 2:25 pm

Australian singer Kylie Minogue poses during a photo call to promote her new album 'X' in Berlin November 22, 2007. Minogue fans now have a new way to indulge their obsessions -- via mobile phone. (Hannibal Hanschke/Reuters)Reuters - Kylie Minogue fans now have a new
way to indulge their obsessions — via mobile phone.


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