UK Open Source Media Watch

From Computer Business Review:

Linux-based messaging vendor Scalix Corp has extended its email and calendaring functionality to wireless devices via a new product designed in conjunction with communications software vendor Notify Technology Corp.

San Mateo, California-based Scalix’s Wireless Solution extends the company’s email, calendar, address book and Personal Information Management (PIM) functionality to numerous wireless devices, via […]

Fortune Magazine has an heretical piece suggesting that maybe… just maybe we’ll actually be better off if people were less concerned about money and a bit more willing to share, as on OS projects:

The economy is changing—and in ways that can’t easily be measured by conventional economic indicators like wages, prices, or savings levels. Ever […]

From PC World

In other news, the pope is still catholic.

It seems, according to The Times, that Microsoft has been rather careless in picking a new name for its next incarnation of Windows.

…at IT Business Edge (of all places) covering such topics as producing proprietary software from OS / GPL licensed derivatives.

The shindig will be held in Bristol on Saturday August 20th. Apparently there will be music and other frivolity.

Several other sites have picked up on something we blogged yesterday, including ZDNet and Techworld. The original press release from CyberSource can be found here.

On Tuesday, we mentioned an accusation from the Belfast Telegraph of inaccuracy in the Wikipedia article on Ballymena and its heroin problem. The paper has another article today relating the gratitude of Ballymena’s mayor towards the media (BBC Radio Ireland also got in on the act) for alerting the public to the problem article, which […]

You may have missed Microsoft’s recent announcement of its new anti piracy strategy – essentially that in order to download non-security related patches, you will lave to prove that your copy of Windows is legit.

This blog post at BetaDot questions whether this new policy may harm Windows’ market share and may even contribute to a breaking […]

PCWorld’s editor had enough of Windows, so gave the alternatives a shot on his desktop, and was pleasantly surprised.

Following on from Nokia’s various forays into the world of open source, Motorola has announced a new line of phones powered by Linux.

Harking back to April, you may remember a report from Demos on the “pro-am” revolution – a phrase coined by the think tank fir the blurring of the distinction between the products of professionals and amateurs in various fields of human endeavour, such as in the case of open source.

The FT has a oddly entitled article […]

PublicTechnology.net has a story on government agency The Design Council’s decision to migrate their website to the open source Open Harmonise software.

More interesting pro-OSS arguments from down under. CyberSource.com.au has a white paper pointing out something fairly obvious: Microsoft’s monopoly, particularly their deals with hardware retailers, results in the Aussie economy hemorrhaging vast amounts of money in the direction of Redmond.

In a further development, Linux World Australia is reporting that CyberSource are using the white paper […]

Why big companies and smaller ones. should adopt OSS in terms your manager will understand.

A Linux-lover’s gripes.

Hot on the heels of New Zealand’s education deal with Novell, the body managing their electoral roles has announced that it’s off to open source.

The book “Free Software for Dummies” has been reviewed by James Coates over at The Chicago Tribune.

An unusual article has cropped up over at The Sydney Morning Herald looking at the local effects that the open source development process has on the ICT industry, specifically in that it “halts the ICT brain drain”.

The Boston Globe has an effusive article about the Encyclopedia Brittanica’s new editorial team with the headline “Venerable Encyclopedia Seeks Just The Facts”.

The article is rather one-sided and unquestioningly reprints what the self-appointed arbiters of human knowledge have to say on the subject. For instance, the assertion that their new board contains 15 of the […]