British researchers have invented something out of Star Trek: a printer that can print out plastic pieces of itself, that can be assembled into a complete unit...that can then print out pieces of itself. It's a...
"NEW YORK (Reuters) - News Corp's MySpace plans to launch a global redesign next week in an attempt to widen its demographic and boost user engagement on the site, the social networking site said on Friday. In...
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A UBC professor is embracing Wikipedia as a platform for academic publication. More universities should be taking this approach. ""VANCOUVER, Canada (AFP) - Wikipedia, the upstart Internet encyclopedia...
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It has been a long time, since the Wikia project and the company behind the thing has started, but finally we can see some results."Search Wikia, the widely awaited search engine from Wikipedia founder Jimmy...
created by pgaliba | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 600 views | 10 recommendations | 1 comment
Dries Buytaert, the founder of Drupal and and an advisor to NowPublic has started up an interesting new venture. Dries is an exceptional guy and this business will do well with him behind it. Good luck...
created by mtippett | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 961 views | 2 recommendations | 9 comments
Ever since the iPhone hit, people have been asking 'what about google?'Well, now we know. There will be no magic 'gphone' instead, google will be releasing software that can be used to run a cell phone, for...
"The big news in the tech world this week was Google's unveiling of OpenSocial, a set of programming tools that will enable members of multiple social networks to share files and information across different platforms. Noticeably absent from the alliance supporting...
Networking site Facebook has triggered a massive mobilization of protesters around the world who will take to the streets this weekend in support of the Burmese monks. The movement, which some term "open-source...
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"Matthew Tippett handed off ATI's GPU specifications to David Airlie on a CD (as reported by Daniel Stone). However, the specifications are also now available on the Internet! At http://www.x.org/docs/AMD/ is the location of the documentation where you can freely download the...
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"A friendly penguin has told us at Phoronix that Google is looking to team up with OpenMoko for their "gPhone". Google will not be using the FIC Neo1973 GTA01, but they will be bringing the open-source OpenMoko platform to their own hardware, which looks to be manufactured...
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"Mozilla releases Firefox version 2.0.0.6 right before it's expected to announce new security tools at this week's BlackHat security conference.
Still battling vulnerabilities that could allow the Firefox browser...
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Being a geek is good thing nowdays. And OSCON 2007 has it all for you."All things open-source are on the agenda at O'Reilly's ninth annual Open-Source Convention, which runs July 24-27 in Portland, Oregon."
Democracy player did sound like some kind hip-hop raconteur who probably works for Moveon.org. The app was solid and now is re-christened "Miro" though a search on 7/19/07 showed the name had lots of competition from the Spanish artist.Last100 has a detailed review of the new...
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"Once you start to see customers are value creators, rather than value consumers, a lot of business truths get turned upside-down. Take, for example, the idea that businesses are primarily accountable to their boards or shareholders. Does anyone out there think that the...
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Linux users community sponsors car in the Indy 500 -
"As we ramp up to what many believe is the greatest auto racing spectacle in the world today, here is a story that is a little slice of the “American...