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Welcome news for Open Source | Kate Lundy - 0 views

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  • Principle 3:  Australian Government agencies will actively participate in open source software communities and contribute back where appropriate.
  • Peter Ruwoldt on 03 Feb 11
     
    Last week the Federal Labor Government's Special Minister of State, Gary Grayannounced the revised Federal Government policy on open source procurement.
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How Android Is Transforming Mobile Computing - Newsweek - 0 views

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  • In addition to making Android available for free, Google also lets phone makers change the code and customize it so that an Android phone made by, say, Samsung has a different user interface than an Android phone from Motorola. Rubin believes this open-source model gives Google an advantage over rivals selling closed systems, like Apple, which also operates its own online stores. Apple’s tight control enables it to deliver an exceptionally smooth user experience, where everything works seamlessly together.
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      Peter Ruwoldt on 15 Oct 10
       
      Key point. There are clear advantages to open systems
  • Peter Ruwoldt on 15 Oct 10
     
    So what happens when most of the residents of planet Earth carry a device that gives them instant access to pretty much all of the world's information? The implications-for politics, for education, for global economics-are dizzying. In theory, the mobile revolution could enable citizens to demand greater openness and accountability from their governments. The reverse might also be true: governments could more easily spy on citizens. "You also have the prospect of having 5 billion surveillance points," says Jonathan Zittrain, codirector of Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society.
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Putin to put Russian government on Linux by 2015 - Computerworld - 0 views

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  • Peter Ruwoldt on 08 Jan 11
     
    Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin [cq] has ordered government agencies there to open-source software by 2015, according to translated documents. Putin's order, signed this month, follows news reports from October saying the Russian government was planning to drop Microsoft products in favor of a national open-source operating system based on Linux.
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BBC NEWS | Technology | Open source question for schools - 0 views

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  • Peter Ruwoldt on 01 Feb 09
     
    Peter Hughes, head of procurement agreements at Becta, told the BBC that more would be done. BETT 2009 An estimated 30,000 people visited BETT this year "As an organisation, we have been criticised for not adequately covering open source solutions and our predominance of proprietary solutions, such as those by Microsoft. "We have therefore responded to this pressure and in our role of strategy and delivery of technology in education, we've made an effort to stay balanced and have focused on facilitating effective choice for schools," he said.
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DesignVitality » Blog Archive » The Open Source Web Design Toolbox: 100 Tools... - 0 views

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  • Peter Ruwoldt on 01 Apr 08
     
    Index of FOSS design tools and templates
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    Google Open Source YouTube channel
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Business & Technology | UW team researches a future filled with RFID chips | Seattle Ti... - 0 views

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  • The project is meant to explore both positive and negative aspects of a world saturated with technology that can monitor people and objects remotely. "What we want to understand," Borriello said, "is what makes it useful, what makes it threatening and how to balance the two."
  • Our objective is to create a future world where RFID is everywhere and figure out problems we'll run into before we get there,
  • For more than a year, a dozen researchers have carried around RFID tags equipped with tiny computer chips that store an identification number unique to each tag. Researchers installed about 200 antennas throughout the computer-science building that pick up any tag near them every second.
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  • The system can show when people leave the office, when they return, how often they take breaks, where they go and who's meeting with whom,
  • if people don't see the tags, it's easy to forget they are giving out information whenever they come within range of a reader.
  • how to make the technology useful while protecting privacy
  • The system is transparent, so each can tell if the other has checked his whereabouts.
  • Users can search the calendar to jog their memories about when they last saw someone or how, where and with whom they spent their time.
    • Peter Ruwoldt
      Peter Ruwoldt on 05 Apr 08
       
      I can see these things being useful. Like the idea of transparency
  • have been designed to divulge more information than necessary, opening the door to security and privacy problems
  • There's no reason to have remotely readable technology in a driver's license," Borriello said. He recommends a system that requires contact with the surface of a reader, so the license-holder knows when information on his license is being read.
    • Peter Ruwoldt
      Peter Ruwoldt on 05 Apr 08
       
      Ethical issues to choose the right technology for the problem. Good point
  • data from radio tags can be pieced together to offer a detailed profile of a person's habits without his or her knowledge.
  • People don't understand the implications of information they're giving out," Borriello said. "They can be linked together to paint a picture, one you didn't think you were painting."
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      Peter Ruwoldt on 05 Apr 08
       
      Critical for people to be street smart. Important role for schools
  • Last year, the number of police requests for information from London's RFID-based transit card rose from four per month to 100
  • It's important to understand what the technology can do and we, collectively, have to decide what we're going to use it for
  • As soon as it becomes widely used, then it's more attractive and people start attacking it," showing its vulnerabilities, Borriello said. The trouble is "by that time, it's hard to change.
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      Peter Ruwoldt on 05 Apr 08
       
      Good that someone is being proactive about this.
  • Peter Ruwoldt on 05 Apr 08
     
    The project is meant to explore both positive and negative aspects of a world saturated with technology that can monitor people and objects remotely. "What we want to understand," Borriello said, "is what makes it useful, what makes it threatening and how to balance the two."
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Open source isn't free software - Computerworld Blogs - 0 views

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  • Peter Ruwoldt on 08 Jan 09
     
    The FSF wasn't looking for money. The cost that comes with using free software code is that, if you sell or distribute programs or products that use the GPLed code, you have to share your modified code with its users. That's not much, but some companies, after adding their special sauce, don't want to share. That's a big, dumb mistake.
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ABC Science Show - 29December2007 - Alfred Deakin Innovation Lecture - 0 views

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  • Peter Ruwoldt on 01 Apr 08
     
    Brian Fitzgerald, Head of the Law School at Queensland University of Technology, will discuss the success of open source in the information technology world, and the lessons for other fields of science. Transcript and Audio available at this link
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  • Peter Ruwoldt on 01 Apr 08
     
    Linux 101 what's all the fuss. A very good way to get IPP and year 10/11 IT students to get some understanding of what open source is and what some of the advantages of it are. Lots of other videos there as well - backing up, buying a digital camera, how
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OpenEducationDisc | Programs - 0 views

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  • Peter Ruwoldt on 01 Apr 08
     
    Open Software CD for schools.
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