http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/27/2113248&from=rss
Thomson Reuters Sues Over Open-Source Endnote-Alike Zotero
Posted by timothy on Saturday September 27, @06:52PM from the gmu-also-home-of-econtalk dept. The Courts Books Education Mozilla Software
Noksagt writes
"Thomson Reuters, the owner of the Endnote reference management software, has filed a $10 million lawsuit and a request for injunction against the Commonwealth of Virginia. Virginia's George Mason University develops Zotero, a free and open source plugin to Mozilla Firefox that researchers may use to manage citations. Thomson alleges that GMU's Center for History and New Media reverse engineered Endnote and that the beta version of Zotero can convert (in violation of the Endnote EULA) the proprietary style files that are used by Endnote to format citations into the open CSL file format."
Nope, too obvious. Requires bureaucracies to cooperate. Never gonna happen.
http://search.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/28/1143246&from=rss
Princeton Researchers Say Feds Need Data Standard
Posted by Soulskill on Sunday September 28, @08:20AM from the yes,-but-which? Dept. Communications The Internet Politics
dcblogs writes
"The federal government's data-sharing efforts are a mess, and if Barack Obama really wants a useful 'Google for government,' he would have to set the government's vast amount of data free by exposing it and ensuring it complies to standards. Once that happens, commercial sites, aggregators, bloggers and everyone else will be able to access it, use it and transform it, argue a group of Princeton researchers (follow Download link for full PDF)."
Perhaps “One Laptop pr Child” and Microsoft are in trouble... (or perhaps it's just another commie plot)
http://mobile.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/28/0155236&from=rss
Venezuela Purchases a Million Intel Classmates
Posted by timothy on Sunday September 28, @07:11AM from the olpc-opened-the-way dept.
An anonymous reader submits news of the million-laptop order from Venezuela of Intel's version of the kid-friendly laptop. The computers are produced in Portugal. "The machines, rebranded 'Magellan,' will also come with Linux pre-installed as opposed to Windows XP. This order alone is 50% bigger than the entire OLPC project has managed to sell worldwide."
While Japan races toward 1gbps, the US pays more for less...
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/27/1757211&from=rss
Japan To Get 1Gbps Home Fiber Connections
Posted by timothy on Saturday September 27, @02:24PM from the yes-but-food-is-cheaper-elsewhere dept. Networking Communications The Internet Technology
ashitaka writes
"KDDI has announced that they will be launching a 1Gbps Internet service to single-family home and condo users in October. The service is supposedly synchronous, with 1Gbps in both directions, although the article implies that speeds will vary with location. Cost will be 5,985 yen/month (about US$56.50) for the basic Internet and IP phone service. This is intended to compete with NTT, who currently control over 70% of the Japanese FTTH market."
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http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20080813/bbstudies/
CWA’s Speed Matters survey found the median download speed in the U.S. to be a mortifying 2.35 megabits per second.
Related Soon we will be outsourcing another area where we used to lead the world.
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/27/191249&from=rss
Chinese Astronauts Complete First Spacewalk
Posted by timothy on Saturday September 27, @03:30PM from the awesome-cgi dept. Space Earth Moon Science
As_I_Please writes
"At 8:40AM (GMT) this morning, Chinese astronaut Zhai Zhigang successfully spent 18 minutes in a tethered spacewalk outside the spacecraft Shenzhou 7. This is an important step in China's goal of building an orbiting space station and sending astronauts to the moon."
No new isn't always good news. With no 'named successor,' isn;t this story worthy of at least a few seconds on the US evening news?
http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/peopleandpower/2008/09/200892772830181381.html
Behind North Korea's bamboo curtain
Saturday, September 27, 2008 16:06 Mecca time, 13:06 GMT
... Kim Jong-Il has a reputation for being a ruthless dictator, yet appears to have widespread support among his people.
But the enigma that is Kim Jong II remains stronger than ever. His recent failure to make public appearances has fuelled mounting speculation about his health, of which North Korea will say nothing. He is believed to have diabetes, heart disease and, in August, is said to have suffered a stroke.
Oboy! Another list! You might even find something useful (I did) [Cloud Computing]
http://digg.com/software/17_Free_Web_Based_Applications_That_You_Probably_Love_To_Use
17 Free Web Based Applications That You Probably Love To Use
smashingapps.com — Here is a listing of 17 online free web based applications that are very helpful for you to process your daily work whether you are a designer, developer, office worker, manager, supervisor, student, home user, etc. Most of them are not very well-known, but they are really amazing in respect to their features.
[Bob's picks:
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