Thursday, February 4, 2010

04-Feb-2010 PM clippings

Enjoy:

Remix Project for FLOSS in govt. halted by incumbents. "It’s never been anyone’s job to look at the OS on public-sector desktops":
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/technology/remix-project-makes-limited-desktop-headway

The Australian Federal Court finds the ISP iiNet not liable for the downloading habits of its customers in a case pushed by Hollywood:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/3293242/Aussie-ISP-battles-Hollywood-and-wins

How to teach children to adapt to the inevitable changes in IT rather than learning legacy applications by rote - and save money:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10623790&pnum=2

Catalyst IT in NZ brings out a demo ENUM application for Android to demonstrate the benefits of a single point of contact (AGPL3):
http://www.ohloh.net/p/enumdiscoverer

A phishing scam reselling fraudulently obtained European carbon credits nets the perpetrators around 1.5 million Euros:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,675725,00.html

And finally. The face of Microsoft in Bosnia. Well, obviously not the official one...:
http://www.microsoft.ba/

Vik :v) Diamond Age Solutions Ltd. http://diamondage.co.nz

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