Biggest Deployment of Gmail, Outlook/Exchange loses out

NSW schools has opted for Gmail for students rather than Outlook. Aside from a massive cost saving this will also allow easy email access outside of schools plus access to Gmail’s great spam filter system and other applications.
Google partner SMS Management and Technology has emerged as the leading bidder to supply the NSW Department of [...]

Google To Announce New Audience Measurement Initiative @ AM 3.0

Google plans to formally unveil its new product — AdPlanner — which will provide Web analytics to media buyers looking to place display ads on the Web. The service, leaked on the Web site of the Advertising Research Foundation on Monday, was to be introduced at the organization’s conference on audience measurement on Tuesday. (see [...]

Hot: Nokia to Acquire Social-Activity Service Provider Plazes

Nokia has purchased Plazes, a social networking provider based in Berlin. From the release:
Nokia and Plazes today announced an agreement for Nokia to acquire substantially all assets of Plazes, a privately-owned start-up company of 13 people with its principal operations in Berlin. Plazes provides a context-aware social-activity service that people can use to plan, record, [...]

Open-source smart card project launched

A Dutch charity is funding an open-source project to design smart card software that offers stronger protection of personal data in light of security vulnerabilities found with cards used today.
NLnet Foundation will give €150,000 (US$234,000) to Radboud University in Nijmegen, Netherlands, for the project, which will run through 2010, said Valer Mischenko, the foundation’s [...]

‘Baby’ celebrates birth of computing - 60 years!

On Saturday, it will be exactly 60 years since the world’s first stored-program, electronic, digital computer flickered into life in a laboratory at the University of Manchester.
The computer was immediately nicknamed ‘Baby’ — something of a misnomer, since it was an enormous device. Its size is illustrated by a picture of the device (below) that recently turned up [...]

Subversion 1.5.0 Released

Subversion 1.5.0, a popular open source version control system, has been released. The first new feature release of Subversion in almost 2 years, 1.5.0 contains a number of new improvements and features. A detailed list of changes can be found in the release notes. Among the major new features included in this release is merge [...]

AP Quotes Blogger In Discussing Bloggers Quoting AP; Hilarity Ensues

The ongoing ridiculous situation brewing between bloggers and the Associated Press has now taken a turn towards the enjoyably hilarious. We had already mentioned the fact that, despite the AP’s complaints that bloggers quoting less than 100 words were violating fair use, the AP had a long history of quoting more than 100 words from [...]

Eclipse readies Ganymede release

OSGi, SOA, JavaScript improvements top list of enhancements in 23 projects
The Eclipse Foundation next week is set to offer its annual simultaneous release of open-source project updates, this time called the Ganymede Release and featuring improvements in the core OSGI-based component model and SOA tools.
All told, 23 projects are being upgraded in the Ganymede [...]

OpenSUSE 11.0 Released With Loads of new features

Novell has announced the release of OpenSUSE 11.0, which offers more than 200 new features and hundreds of application updates.
The 11.0 release of openSUSE includes more than 200 new features specific to openSUSE, a redesigned installer that makes openSUSE even easier to install, faster package management thanks to major updates in the ZYpp stack, and [...]

Mozilla confirms Firefox 3.0 flaw, says risk minimal

Mozilla security chief Window Snyder (left) has confirmed the existence of a serious code execution vulnerability in the brand-new Firefox 3.0 browser.
Snyder’s confirmation follows a public warning by TippingPoint’s ZDI (Zero Day Initiative) that the flaw could lead to PC takeover hijacks if a user simply surfs to a rigged Web site with Firefox.

On the [...]