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Wikimedia receives US$500,000 from Hewlett Foundation
News Nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia plans to use grant to improve user-friendliness of Wikimedia's software, among other things.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Training, nonprofit organization, Wikipedia, Wikimedia, San Francisco, director, Web 2.0, executive director
Net pioneer GeoCities finally laid to rest
News With Yahoo's closure of GeoCities, Internet community bids farewell to one of earliest Web startups, but several efforts underway to save its content.
Tags: Web sites, GeoCities, Yahoo! Inc., Web sites, Portal, dot-com, Hollywood, Internet, Web Site, WWW
Tech firms to tackle Linux desktop standards
News Nonprofit enlists Adobe, IBM, Intel and HP to make Linux more attractive to desktop software developers.
Tags: Linux, Software engineering/development
IBM, Harvard tap compute cloud for solar research
News A grid-computing project led by Harvard University seeks to identify which organic materials would perform best as electricity-generating solar cells.
Tags: Market research, Green IT, Components, IBM Corp., Computing, Existing World Community Grid Project, nonprofit organization, solar cell, Computer, World Community Grid
Closing chapter of Google Books saga near
News Monday's deadline to submit a revised settlement could mark the beginning of the end for the Google Books legal process, after a year of rancorous debate.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web services, Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Web 2.0, U.S. Department Of Justice, Settlement, New York, copyright law
More questions than answers on Google Books
News Google insists it has the best of intentions following its settlement with book rights holders, but there is a strong undercurrent of distrust in the publishing community.
Tags: Data Management, Databases, Settlement, Class Action, financial, knowledge, asset, University of California at Berkeley, director, Data Management
Google offers rivals a place in e-books program
News Search giant offers competitors an ability to resell e-books that Google alone could get rights to. But Amazon spurns the offer.
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, Data Management, Democrat, E-book, Rep., Settlement, Work, Internet, U.S. Congress
CEO of Internet oversight group to step down
News Paul Twomey will continue to helm ICANN until the board appoints a successor at the organization that is about to make some major changes.
Tags: Domain names, Web sites, ICANN, U.S. Department of Commerce, Paul Twomey, DNS, chairman, CEO, Internet, leadership
Fiorina 'seriously considering' bid for Senate
News Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina says her varied experiences would be an asset if she were to pursue political office.
Tags: Politics, Technology, ICANN, Immigration, Carly Fiorina, U.S. Senate, Washington, CEO, Adobe PDF, health care
The 10 best IT certifications
Techguide Debatable or not, here are some of the accreditation that a technology consultant believes hold value for IT pros.
Tags: Certification, Personal development, Infrastructure/architecture management, IT project management, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft SQL Server, Certification, Security, Skill, Expertise
802.11 gets graded
News Textbooks and training manuals used by an estimated 50,000 people who manage an office's wireless network are getting their first inspection.
Oracle exec to head open-source group
News Oracle executive Mike Milinkovich is named the first executive director since Eclipse gained independence from IBM earlier this year.
Tags: Open source
ICANN to lift price caps on .net domains
News Group agrees to lift price restrictions on .net domains starting in 2007--a signal that ICANN will cease regulating domain name pricing?
Tags: IT Management, Domain names
Twitter, Facebook called on for higher purpose
News Google.org's technology project to help save lives in the event of natural disasters or public health threats has been launched.
Tags: Disaster recovery, Data backup, disaster recovery
Linux lab lays off programmers
News Open Source Development Labs, group that employs Linux leader Linus Torvalds, lays off nearly a sixth of its staff.
Tags: Open source, Layoffs
