Stories by: Dahna McConnachie

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    Forum delves into murky waters of rights in the digital age 16/11/2007 08:43:49

    A forum later this month seeks to shed some light on the increasingly complex area of rights protection in the digital music age.
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    Dot.com take 2: Web 2.0 plus powerful broadband re-ignite e-commerce 13/11/2007 09:27:17

    Web 2.0 combined with increased broadband presence has the power to re-fuel e-commerce, according to a recent Paul Budde report.
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    Digital Rights Management comes to email in mission impossible style. 06/11/2007 09:19:16

    Email sender remorse is a thing of the past, if Bigstring.com CEO and founder Darin Myman has his way. The start up has developed a service that allows emails to be edited, recalled, or made to self-destruct. Emails, videos and pictures can also be rendered non printable, non-save-able or and / or non-forward-able.
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    Autodesk's Liam Speden on how open source can help coordinate our world 02/11/2007 06:41:40

    Autodesk recently announced plans to donate its coordinate system (CS) and map projection technology to the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo). The software, acquired from Mentor Software will help users to more easily support geographic coordinate conversions and allow accurate and precise geospatial analysis. This planned donation joins several previous Open Source donations by the company, including the web mapping MapGuide and the geospatial data access technology (FDO) software, both donated last year.
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    BPL trial slowed due to skills shortage 30/10/2007 08:50:31

    Country Energy's Broadband over Power Line (BPL) trial is being extended by a month, due to a lack of experienced field technicians and staff.
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    Internet registry warns of Ipv4 depletion 30/10/2007 07:47:30

    IPv4 address space is likely to be fully depleted within two to four years, warned a Regional Internet Registry (RIR) organisation last week.
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    SourceForge heads from one-stop shop to Mega-market 29/10/2007 09:27:34

    SourceForge has forged a name for itself as the one-stop shop for downloading open source software. Now it looks like it is heading to mega market status, adding services to its suite, with the recent Beta launch of Source.Forge.net Marketplace.
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    D-Link and Beceem to push mobile WiMAX to the shelves 26/10/2007 06:26:11

    The WiMAX market has had another boost this week with network equipment provider D-Link announcing it will base a range of products on Beceem's mobile WiMAX chipset.
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    Gamer-turned-CEO chats about making money from games 26/10/2007 07:15:27

    It is confirmed. You can make money from game playing. Miniclip.com, the self-funded start up has over 400 free games on offer, from single player through to hard-core massive multiplayer games, and nearly 45 million unique users. The business was launched in 2001, with a £40,000 (AU$90,000) investment by CEO Rob Small and his business partner, and took one year to start paying for itself. It was named this year by Deloitte as the fifth fastest growing UK tech company.
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    Openbravo executives open up on the ERP solution 25/10/2007 08:21:10

    Openbravo, an Open Source web-based ERP product, was project of the month on SourceForge in September. The project uses a Mozilla Public License 1.1 (MPL 1.1). It has 68 developers and over 200 contributors and has been downloaded over 350,000 times; with that number increasing by about 1,000 downloads per day.
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    Red Hat exec: Open Source is mature, disruptive and innovative 24/10/2007 08:54:53

    Open source is disruptive, it develops rapidly, is adopted quickly, and it efficiently meets market needs while enabling new market capabilities. These were some of the statements made at an open source symposium held in Western Australia (WA) earlier this month.
 
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