Firefox explorers By Nigel McFarlane March 22, 2005 Source When Bill Robertson decided last year to switch 450 workers and 100 desktops at De Bortoli Wines to the open source Firefox web browser, he had the company's future in mind. In moving to the free Firefox, he did more than just install a web browser that rivals Microsoft's Internet Explorer, which comes for free with every PCby archive - Archive
The Age of Missing Information The Bush administration's campaign against openness. By Steven Aftergood Posted Thursday, March 17, 2005, at 4:23 AM PT Source The government does a remarkable job of counting the number of national security secrets it generates each year. Since President George W. Bush entered office, the pace of classification activity has increased by 75 percent, said Wiby archive - Archive
Guide: Microsoft European draft licence Ingrid Marson and Matt Loney, ZDNet UK March 21, 2005 Source In last year's European Commission antitrust ruling against Microsoft, the software giant agreed to create a server interoperability licence that would allow rival makers of server software to write applications that can "achieve full interoperability" with Windows client anby archive - Archive
Funding the Way to Open Access By Robert Terry Published: March 15, 2005 Source Imagine this scenario. You're the director of one of the world's largest medical research charities, and you receive notification from one of your funded investigators in Africa reporting some exciting progress toward the development of a vaccine for malaria. The work has just been published, so you log onby archive - Archive
What price for 'trusted PC security'? By Bill Thompson Last Updated: Friday, 18 March, 2005, 12:11 GMT Source You can now buy "trusted computers", but can we really trust the PC vendors, asks technology analyst Bill Thompson. If you have recently bought an IBM ThinkVantage computer, a Dell Optiplex, or one of a whole range of laptops from Toshiba, HP/Compaq or Samsuby archive - Archive
Contrabandwidth By Kate Palmer March/April 2005 Source People can get almost anything on the black market—drugs, passports, even human organs. Now add Web sites to the list. Inside many authoritarian regimes that closely monitor and censor the Internet, access to blocked Web sites has become a black market commodity like any other. Typically, the process is simple: Savvy black marketers in cybeby archive - Archive
An Interview with the OpenOffice.org Team. By Aditya Nag email(@)adityanag(.)org adityanag(@)gmail(.)com Date: March, 2005 Source This article was first published on :www.newsforge.com. UPDATE: The article was written by Bruce Byfield, but the Interview in the sidebar is mine. In fact, it's an extremely cut down interview, which is why I have posted the entire interview here.by archive - Archive
ATTORNEY-GENERAL CONFIRMS RULING FOR XS4ALL IN SCIENTOLOGY CASE XS4ALL News 18 March 2005 Source Today, Attorney-General Verkade delivered his opinion regarding the Scientology case to the Dutch Supreme Court. In this case the Church of Scientology accuses Karin Spaink of copyright infringement for making parts of their course material available on her website. By publishing this mateby archive - Archive
ADVOCAAT-GENERAAL BEVESTIGT GELIJK XS4ALL IN SCIENTOLOGY-ZAAK XS4ALL Nieuws 18 Maart 2005 Bron Vandaag heeft Advocaat-Generaal Verkade advies uitgebracht aan de Hoge Raad in de Scientology-zaak. In deze zaak beschuldigt Scientology Karin Spaink van auteursrechtinbreuk omdat de publiciste stukken uit de leer van Scientology op haar website heeft geplaatst. Spaink wil met het plaatsen van dezby archive - Archive
Barrels of Oil, Miles of Mud The Daily Reckoning London, England Tuesday, March 15, 2005 The Daily Reckoning PRESENTS: Byron King discusses the stir caused by Edwin Drake, the man who drilled the world's first commercial oil well in a small in town in Pennsylvania. It's interesting to see what a look into history can tell us about the present-day oil frenzy... BARRELS OF OIL, MILESby archive - Archive
UPDATE 4-Fannie sees additional losses, stock tumbles Thu Mar 17, 2005 06:14 PM ET (Rewrites throughout) By Kristin Roberts Source WASHINGTON, March 17 (Reuters) - Fannie Mae (FNM.N: Quote, Profile, Research) on Thursday said it would have to record $2.4 billion in additional losses for 2004 if the company's accounting for its mortgage commitments as derivatives is not allowed. The emby archive - Archive
EDS' secret love for Linux laid bare By Julian Bajkowski, Computerworld 18/03/2005 09:43:30 Source Only a day after flaming open source as insecure, unscalable and unfit for Australian consumption in its Agility Alliance, services vendor EDS has revealed it really does have a soft spot for the penguin deep in its heart. Contrary to the stern warnings on open source delivered by EDS globalby archive - Archive
"This is perhaps not the week to air such apocalyptic concerns, though they are much on Buttonwood’s mind. In the end, what foreign central bankers have it in their power to do is to reveal before all the world that the mighty American economic empire has no clothes—not even a pair of little fuchsia-coloured shoes." Buttonwood Starkers by Buttonwood Mar 16th 2005 From The Economistby archive - Archive
Secret US plans for Iraq's oil By Greg Palast Reporting for Newsnight Source The Bush administration made plans for war and for Iraq's oil before the 9/11 attacks, sparking a policy battle between neo-cons and Big Oil, BBC's Newsnight has revealed. Two years ago today - when President George Bush announced US, British and Allied forces would begin to bomb Baghdad - protesters clby archive - Archive
Microsoft's licence to kill Leader ZDNet UK March 18, 2005, 13:15 GMT Source Microsoft's response to the EC's antitrust ruling is breathtaking in its audacity. It cannot be allowed to stand Let's start with some facts. Microsoft has been found guilty by the highest authorities in Europe — as in the US — of abusing its monopoly position. As a result, the company is requiredby archive - Archive
MIT urges Brazil towards Linux Reuters March 18, 2005, 09:05 GMT Source MIT's Media Lab has recommended Brazil install open source software instead of proprietary software offered by Microsoft on thousands of computers that will be sold to the poor, according to a letter obtained by Reuters on Thursday. "We advocate using high-quality free software as opposed to scaled-down versionsby archive - Archive
Argentina cries out for Linux By Ingrid Marson ZDNet UK December 17, 2004, 12:40 GMT Source Companies in Argentina are opting for Linux over Windows and some are planning to migrate all their systems to Linux, according to a survey published this week. The survey was carried out by Trends Consulting, an Argentina-based company, which interviewed 115 companies in Argentina in the first half ofby archive - Archive
Peak Oil Presentation in the US Congress Published on Wednesday, March 16, 2005 by US Congressional Record By Roscoe Bartlett Source [ Conservative Congressman Roscoe Bartlett, Chairman of the Projection Forces Subcommittee of the Armed Services Committee, gave an hour long presentation on Peak Oil to the US Congress on Monday. This is the full transcript. We hope to get a hold of the grapby archive - Archive
New machines could turn homes into small factories Dr Bowyer appeared on Design on Nature on BBC Radio 4 on Wednesday March 17 http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/radio4_aod.shtml?radio4/designs_nature]Listen to this>> Source A revolutionary machine which can make everything from a cup to a clarinet quickly and cheaply could be in all our homes in the next few years. Research by engineersby archive - Archive
13 things that do not make sense 19 March 2005 NewScientist.com news service By Michael Brooks Source 1 The placebo effect DON'T try this at home. Several times a day, for several days, you induce pain in someone. You control the pain with morphine until the final day of the experiment, when you replace the morphine with saline solution. Guess what? The saline takes the pain away. Thisby archive - Archive
Good-bye, computer; hello, world! By Molly Wood, senior editor, CNET.com Tuesday, March 15, 2005 Source Molly Wood So, I'm headed off to Japan on Friday, and not surprisingly, planning a trip to Tokyo has me thinking about the future of technology. It's also gotten me thinking about the always tricky problem of remote access. I mean, it's not like I'll be offline, and weby archive - Archive
Hitachi unveils 'fastest robot' Wednesday, 16 March, 2005, 09:01 GMT BBC Source Japanese electronics firm Hitachi has unveiled its first humanoid robot, called Emiew, to challenge Honda's Asimo and Sony's Qrio robots. Hitachi said the 1.3m (4.2ft) Emiew was the world's quickest-moving robot yet at 6km/h (3.7 miles per hour). Two wheel-based Emiews, Pal and Chum, intrby archive - Archive
Growing fears credit boom may implode By Dan Roberts and David Wighton in New York and Peter Thal Larsen in London Published: March 13 2005 21:42 Last updated: March 13 2005 21:42 Source Bankruptcy advisers are hiring extra staff amid fears that an end to the global credit boom could spark a surge in business failures in the US and Europe. Unusually loose lending conditions have encouraged reby archive - Archive
Gates up to old tricks over intellectual property rights By Adam Gifford 15.03.2005 Source If you wondered how Bill Gates topped the Forbes rich list for the 11th year with a personal fortune of US$46.5 billion ($63 billion), look no further than the New Zealand Intellectual Property Office. Patent 525484, accepted by the office and now open for objections until the end of May, says Microsoftby archive - Archive
Under Bush, a New Age of Prepackaged TV News By DAVID BARSTOW and ROBIN STEIN March 13, 2005 New York Times Source It is the kind of TV news coverage every president covets. "Thank you, Bush. Thank you, U.S.A.," a jubilant Iraqi-American told a camera crew in Kansas City for a segment about reaction to the fall of Baghdad. A second report told of "another success"by archive - Archive
'Millipede' small scale MEMS prototype shown at CeBIT By PhysOrg March 12, 2005 Source Nanomechanical data storage device from the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland Given the rapidly increasing data volumes that are downloaded onto mobile devices such as cell phones and PDAs, there is a growing demand for suitable storage media with more and more capacity. At CeBIT, IBM foby archive - Archive
How to Start a Startup By Paul Graham March 2005 Source (This essay is derived from a talk at the Harvard Computer Society. It's not meant to be complete; I skipped some topics I've already written about in "How to Make Wealth," in Hackers & Painters.) You need three things to create a successful startup: to start with good people, to make something customers actuallyby archive - Archive
Desktop Linux wins plaudits for stability by Ingrid Marson at Hannover ZDNet UK March 10, 2005, 17:50 GMT Source Companies who choose open source software over Windows for their enterprise resource planning tend to be surprised by the absence of crashes, according to users and vendors A company that migrated from Microsoft Windows to Linux on the desktop has praised the open source operating sby archive - Archive
Separation kernel runs Linux in "ultrasecure" partition Mar. 09, 2005 Source[/url[ LynuxWorks says it will ship a new super-high-security operating system in July, 2005 that was designed to meet the very highest levels of military certification. The LynxSecure Separation Kernel will run BlueCat Linux and LynxOS-178 applications within ultrasecure user-mode partitions, LynuxWorks says.by archive - Archive
SPACE TRAVEL Interstellar Pioneers Facing Termination Los Angeles (SPX) Mar 09, 2005 Source A little over 13 hours out from Sol, a veteran of the first space age - Voyager 1 - is working quietly in the depths of space as it travels away from our Sun at 17.163 kilometers per second. But now, NASA has told scientists working on these and other older missions that their missions may be terminatedby archive - Archive