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Friday, 19 December 2008

UK school launches "ethical" hacking course

Leo King Computerworld

The International Correspondence School has launched an "ethical" hacking course despite potential dangers of the course.

Thursday, 18 December 2008

Intel to show touch-screen laptops at CES

Agam Shah

Intel have revealed its next-generation Classmate laptopshow and prototypes of the laptop will be showcased at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) to be held in Las Vegas

Wednesday, 03 December 2008

Internet needs multilingual support for next billion people

John Ribeiro

Multiple languages and relevant applications will help bring more people to the Internet, according to participants at an Internet Governance Forum.

Friday, 28 November 2008

Seven years in the making, Processing 1.0 is finally released

Macworld staff

Processing, an open source programming language development environment, and online community promoting software literacy within the visual arts, has finally been released after seven years in the making.

Wednesday, 26 November 2008

Jepsen works to raise laptop battery life to 20-40 hours

Dan Nystedt

Display screen technology developer Mary Lou Jepsen is working at her new start-up to create laptop PCs so energy efficient they'll be able to run on a standard laptop battery for 20 to 40 hours before needing a recharge.

Thursday, 20 November 2008

Free European online library launches, crashes

Macworld staff

Europeana, a new multilingual pan-European resource offering over 2 million digitised books, maps, recordings, photographs, archive documents, paintings and films has crashed due to high demand.

Tuesday, 18 November 2008

Amazon UK offer One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Give 1 Get 1 program

Dan Moren Macworld.com

The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) association launched its Give 1 Get 1 program allowing customers to buy a laptop and donate one to a child in the developing world at the same time via Amazon US and UK websites.

Monday, 17 November 2008

Apple launches Internal University

Dan Turner Computerworld

Apple has hired Joel Podolny to helm an internal "Apple University" program. Podolny was most recently the head of the Yale School of Management.

Friday, 14 November 2008

Apple iTunes App stores goes festive for Christmas

Macworld staff

With only 40 days to Christmas, Apple has a range of festive treats in store for iTunes App Store customers.

Friday, 14 November 2008

Google and MySpace celebrate OpenSocial's first year, FaceBook still refusing to party

Juan Carlos Perez

OpenSocial supporters celebrated on Thursday what they consider major progress in this project to establish a common set of standard APIs and tools for developing social networking applications.

Thursday, 13 November 2008

Google Earth adds 3D layer for Ancient Rome

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira The Industry Standard

Google has announced a new layer for its Google Earth application: Ancient Rome 3D. The layer allows users to move through a virtual rendering of Ancient Rome as it looked in 320 AD.

Wednesday, 12 November 2008

Microsoft denies paying contractor to abandon Linux

Remmy Nweke

Microsoft denied paying a Nigerian contractor to replace the Linux operating system on school computers with Microsoft software.

Friday, 31 October 2008

Microsoft updates Office for Mac 2008

Jim Dalrymple, Macworld US

The update fixes a very specific problem that was caused by the last update and addresses a calendar issue in versions of Entourage.

Friday, 31 October 2008

Education in 2015: Cyberlearning for digital natives

John Cox, Network World

Today's students are "digital natives," already using digital tools on their own to understand their world and to learn, often in non traditional ways, outside of formal education structures.

Thursday, 30 October 2008

Atari accuses "innocent" people of file-sharing

Jonny Evans

The entertainment industry maintains its file-sharing witch-hunt, with UK consumer group warning that potentially hundreds of people accused of theft are in fact innocent. Atari has dropped a case against a UK couple that claims never to have played a video game.

Wednesday, 29 October 2008

Google settles copyright lawsuits with publishers, authors

Juan Carlos Perez

Paul Aiken, executive director of the Authors Guild, said during a press conference that the settlement could be considered "the biggest book deal in US publishing industry."

Tuesday, 28 October 2008

FileMaker 9 updates ship

Macworld staff

Free updates have been made available for FileMaker Pro 9, FileMaker Pro 9 Advanced, FileMaker Server 9 and FileMaker Server 9 Advanced.

Tuesday, 28 October 2008

Free events teach Adobe CS4 Photoshop skills

Macworld staff

Attendees will learn more about the latest versions of Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Photoshop Lightroom at one of these free seminars.

Monday, 27 October 2008

OpenOffice 3.0 exceeds five million downloads

Macworld staff

As recession bites there's no need to invest in office software tools - free OpenOffice productivity suite sees five million downloads since release

Monday, 27 October 2008

Apple joins fight against law to ban same-sex marriage

Jonny Evans

"Apple was among the first California companies to offer equal rights and benefits to our employees’ same-sex partners, and we strongly believe that a person’s fundamental rights - including the right to marry - should not be affected by their sexual orientation."

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