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Intel buys German company's wireless chip tech in mobile-phone pushMonday, August 30, 2010 @ 6:55PMPaul Sakuma / APThe exterior of Intel Corp. headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif., in shown in this photo from July 12. German chipmaker Infineon Technologies AG is selling a unit that makes products for wireless telephones to Intel in a...

Red Hat board gets military leadershipMonday, August 30, 2010 @ 6:43PMThe managing board of enterprise open-source software company Red Hat has elected a retired U.S. Army officer, General Henry Hugh Shelton, to serve as chairman, the company announced Monday. Shelton takes the place of Matthew Szulik, who was the former CEO of Red Hat.

Reform Party’s Response to PM’s National Day MessageMonday, August 30, 2010 @ 5:52PMThe Reform Party was disappointed with the PM’s speech. This was an opportunity for the PM to address some of the pressing issues facing this country and his failure to do so has demonstrated once again that our government is out of touch with the people. Here is the Party’s view on some of these [...]

Calculators: Not making a comeback, but still coolMonday, August 30, 2010 @ 5:51PMOnce calculators started being integrated into every battery-powered item that we own, from GPS devices to watches to mobile phones, you’d have probably guessed that we’d stop seeing them pop up all over. That’s not quite the case though. Because software calculators are so ubiquitous, standalone calculators have emerged as one of the ultimate forms for geek jewelry. Probably [...]

Adobe doesn't defend director's pro-open source commentsThursday, August 26, 2010 @ 11:31AMTHE INQUIRER Exclusive Flash company distances itself from anti-Oracle blog

Four short links: 26 August 2010 - Economic Growth Without Copyright, Ebook Numbers, Hypothesis Analysis Tool, Who ...Thursday, August 26, 2010 @ 10:56AMGermany's Industrial Expansion Fueled by Absence of Copyright Law? (Der Spiegel) -- fascinating article about the extraordinary publishing output in 1800s Germany vs other nations, all with no effective and enforceable copyright laws. Sigismund Hermbstdt, for example, a chemistry and pharmacy professor in Berlin, who has long since disappeared into the oblivion of history, earned more royalties ...

New Features Expand Capabilities of the FrontlineSMS Mobile Communications PlatformThursday, August 26, 2010 @ 2:59AMThe open-source SMS communications platform FrontlineSMS has delivered two major features as part of a new software release today. With this upgrade, FrontlineSMS allows organisations to receive multimedia messages via a standard email account.

iSOFT Group Limited (ASX:ISF) Awarded National Telehealth Supplier AgreementThursday, August 26, 2010 @ 2:16AMSydney, Australia, Aug 26, 2010 - (ABN Newswire) - iSOFT Group Limited (ASX:ISF) has been awarded a telehealth assistive technologies framework agreement from Buying Solutions, the national procurement organisation for all UK public services. The framework agreements facilitate the buying process across a broad range of services and products for UK public sector contracting authorities, saving ...

New AVG Research Shows Turkey and Russia as Most Risky Places to Surf the Net; Sierra Leone and Japan Among SafestThursday, August 26, 2010 @ 2:05AMAMSTERDAM--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The release showcases the findings of AVG’s first ever ‘Global Threat Index.’ The index, which will be released each month shows the safest and most dangerous places to surf the Internet for travelers