Browser Address Book as Firefox Addon
Mar 23, 2010Users commonly on the Internet often maintain many online contacts. Mozilla now wants to help manage these contacts with a special Firefox addon.
more »Parted Magic 4.9: New Device Names
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more »Novell Rejects Elliott Associates Buyout
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more »CeBIT Open Source 2010: Forum Talks Online
Mar 22, 2010Next delivery of CeBIT videos -- the presentation streams from Thursday, Friday and Saturday of the Open Source Forum at CeBIT Open Source 2010 are available online. Free for all!
more »CeBIT Open Source 2010: Forum Talks Online
Mar 22, 2010Next delivery of CeBIT videos -- the presentation streams from Thursday, Friday and Saturday of the Open Source Forum at CeBIT Open Source 2010 are available online. Free for all!
more »Swiss Education IT Agency Campaigns Against Microsoft Live@edu
Mar 22, 2010The Swiss federal agency known as Schweizerische Fachstelle für Informationstechnologien (SFIB) or Centre suisse des technologies de l'information dans l'enseignement (CTIE) has studied the user licenses for Microsoft products in Swiss schools. The result is a warning against the licensing and a recommendation to use open source products.
more »5 Years of Google Code: Google Doubles Source Code Storage
Mar 19, 2010Five years ago, Google started placing internal projects under a free license and with Google Summer of Code, began its support of the open source scene.
more »Virtual Appliance for Django Developers
Mar 18, 2010Developer Og Maciel is working on a virtual appliance for Django developers. It should include everything you need to work with the Python framework for the Web.
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