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Penguicon Tinkers With Sci-Fi Convention Traditions

The Huffington Post | David Sands | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: Video, Science Fiction Convention, Sci-Fi Convention, Linux, Jim Gettys, Detroit News, Penguicon 2012, Penguicon Convention, Scrub Club, Penguicon, Tux the Linux Penguin, Open Source Software, Detroit News

Penguicon, an open-source software and science fiction gathering that expects to draw more than 1,200 fans to the Regency Hyatt hotel in Dearborn this...

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Forget The Living Room. Play Tetris On Buildings!

Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Video, MIT Gallery of Hacks, Atmospheric and Planetary Science, Tetris, Linux, Brown University, Green Building, Video Games, Holy Grail of Hacks, Department of Earth, Mit, Arts News

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is known for being innovative, but don't think these studious young minds only thing about class. On April 2...

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Red Hat Acquires Gluster For $136 Million In Cash

Arnal Dayaratna | Posted 12.04.2011

Read More: Online Storage, Unstructured Data, Pandora, Openshift, Box.net, Red Hat, Cloudforms, Gluster, Cloud Computing, Linux, Technology News

Red Hat, provider of open source enterprise software solutions, announced Tuesday that it had reached a deal to acquire the online storage company Glu...

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Staying the Course: Tizen and Beyond

John Bergquist | Posted 11.29.2011

Read More: Limo, Samsung, Mobile Technology, Android, Intel, Ios, Linux, Tablets, Technology News

As consumers we want synchronization across all platforms. We want to be free to use the devices that match our needs best and we want those devices to work well.

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Meet Tizen, A Cousin Of Android

Posted 11.28.2011

Read More: Tizen Smartphones, Tizen Os, Tizen Linux, Samung, Tizen, Linux, Intel, Technology News

By Tarmo Virki, European Technology Correspondent (Reuters) - Two Linux groups said on Wednesday they would combine their technologies to creat...

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Linux Chief: Bashing Microsoft 'Like Kicking A Puppy'

networkworld.com | Posted 06.06.2011

Read More: Linux Jim Zemlin, Linux Microsoft, Linux Microsoft Project, Linux, Microsoft, Technology News

Two decades after Linus Torvalds developed his famous operating system kernel, the battle between Linux and Microsoft is over and Linux has won, says ...

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Google's Android Contains Legal Landmines for Developers and Device Manufacturers

Edward J. Naughton | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Copyright Infringement, Google, Intellectual Property, Copyright, Android, Oracle, Linux, Smartphones, Open Source, Technology News

I have serious doubts that Google's approach to the Bionic Library in its Android programming works under U.S. copyright law. At a minimum, Google has taken a significant gamble.

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Next Generation Democracy: Open Web Platforms, Local Activists and the US Coastguard

Ben Berkowitz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New Orleans, Government, Democracy, Civic Participation, Linux, Seeclickfix, New Yorker, Social Change, Malcolm Gladwell, Open Source Software, Technology News

From the evolution of Linux to the distributed mechanisms of the US Coastguard, a new book shows us that inclusive decision making can reshape democracy for the 21st century.

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October Surprises Bring Drama to Brazil's Presidential Race

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Petrobras, Davos, Privatization, Lula, Marina Silva, Financial TImes, Jose Serra, Dilma Rousseff, Globalism, Green Party, Barack Obama, World Economic Forum, Ibope, Datafolha, Sap, Microsoft, Linux, Oracle, China, Russia, Brazil, Margaret Thatcher, World News

Brazil's economy has been outperforming the United States and all the Euro zone nations, which is why it is attracting investment from so many globalist companies and speculators.

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The Revolution of Relevance

Mehret Mandefro | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Open Source, Social Media, Twitter, Social Media Networks, patients.like.me.com, Linux, Media News

Patterns of communication, best described as many-to-many, are resulting in a world governed by relevant, almost-real-time, and perpetually flowing feedback. This constant and permanent traffic of participation is the animating force of the Revolution of Relevance.

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OK Labs Forging the Mobile Virtualization Movement

Ramon Nuez | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Technologies, Motorola, Manufacturers, Operators, Qualcomm, Samsung, Linux, Virtualization, Mobile, Microvisor, Android, Microkernel, Vmware, Rtos, Kernel, Os, Citrix, Mobile Virtualization, Mnos, Semiconductor, Oems, Technology News

This is the latest post in our series, Technical MashUps, which focuses on the various technologies that are being leveraged to improve and redefine o...

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India Unveils $35 Tablet Computer

Huffington Post/AP | By ERIKA KINETZ | Posted 05.26.2011

Read More: 35 Tablet India, 35 Tablet, 35 Tablet Computer, Linux, India Tablet, India Tablet Computer, Technology News

MUMBAI, India -- It looks like an iPad, only it's 1/14th the cost: India has unveiled the prototype of a $35 basic touchscreen tablet aimed at student...

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Tapping a Million Green Brains

Marc Stoiber | Posted 05.25.2011

Mass collaboration in business was, until quite recently, a concept treated with suspicion. Today, we're seeing an explosion of collaboration that unabashedly taps the creative reservoir of the masses.

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The Academy and Fashion -- An Unlikely Pair Teaches Us About Innovation

Krisztina Holly | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Open Source, Copyrights, Innovation, Usc, Linux, And OpenCourseWare, Tedx, The Human Genome Project, Intellectual Property, Academic, Ted, Fashion, Academia, Ip, Johanna Blakley, World Wide Web, Ideas, Patents, Tedxusc, Los Angeles News

In the rush to protect our ideas we often overlook the fact that the value of some ideas are most fully realized when they are shared, not kept secret.

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Lulu.com Going Public: IPO For Book Publishing Website Coming Soon

Newsobserver.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Self Publishing, Canadian Authorities, Red Hat, Book Publishing, Linux, Stock, Burn Rate, Ipo, Going Public, Stock Market, Lulu, lulu.com, Public Offering, Canada, Books News

The company behind the Lulu.com book publishing Web site has taken the first official step toward an initial public offering in Canada. The Raleigh-b...

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Should Internet Content Be Free? The Best Model to Save Newspapers, Books, and Music in the Digital Age

Anis Shivani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Limited Copyright, Newspapers, Free Content, Copyright, Content, Artistic Collaboration, Perpetual Copyright, Copyright Extension, Chris Anderson, "Free: The Future of a Radical Price, Intellectual Property, Music, Creative Commons, Lawrence Lessig, Cross-Subsidies, Publishing Industry, Free Economy, Digital Economy, Digital, Future of the Internet, Google, Wikipedia, Public Domain, Paid Content, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Microsoft, Books, Business Models for Digital Content, Thomas Jefferson, Death of Newspapers, Newspaper Industry, Mark Helprin, Linux, Moore's Law, Espresso Book Machine, Art, Piracy, " "Digital Barbarism: A Writer's Manifesto, Advertising, Digital Age, Music Industry, Freemium, " Free, Media News

How can we retain, even enhance, creativity in the digital age, taking advantage of near-zero costs of redistribution? Two recent books consider the question.

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Free Linux Software Bridges Brazil's Digital Divide

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Casas Bahia, Carter Center, Microsoft, Pro Info, Wal-Mart, Linus Torvalds, Jimmy Carter, Bill Gates, Brazil, Linux, Fnac, Debian, Va, Veterans, Obamacare, Obama Health Care, Veterans Affairs, Ware, Vatican, Rerum Novarum, World News

Fifty million Brazilian students will have Christmas in July when software Santa slips down the chimney to give them a free ticket on the information highway.

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Obama and Free Software

James Love | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Richard Stallman, Rms, Linus Torvalds, Free Software, Bruce Perens, Linux, Eben Moglen, Media News

While free software was once considered by some as a fringe movement, it is now mainstream. Fortune 500 companies are embracing free software programs like R to analyze data.

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Microsoft Roils the World with FAT Patents

Brian Kahin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wto, Standards, Linux, Alliance for Competitive Technology, Patents, Microsoft, Comptia, Business News

Some wishful thinkers may accept Microsoft's claim that this is about TomTom rather than Linux. But this is a landmark assault into the most troubled and controversial terrain of the patent system.

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Free Software

James Love | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ubuntu, Apple, Microsoft, Linux, Business News

It will be important for individuals to switch to Linux, not only from Microsoft, but also from Apple. Today many free software proponents don't use free software themselves.

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Users Plead Microsoft To Save Windows XP

AP | JESSICA MINTZ | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Windows Vista Reviews, Mac Users, Microsoft Windows, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows, Microsoft Users, Microsoft, Linux, Business News

SEATTLE — Microsoft Corp.'s operating systems run most personal computers around the globe and are a cash cow for the world's largest software m...

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Google Phone Prototypes Debut In Spain

PC Magazine | Sascha Segan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Google Android OS, Mobile World Congress, Google Android, Qualcomm, Android, Google Applications, MSM7201 Chip, Linux, Business News

The Mobile World Congress became the coming-out party for Google's Android OS as four mobile processor vendors showed off pre-production devices runni...

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