Ted Ritzer: GOV ITStrategic IT for Government(Untitled)- March 20, 2004 FolderShare 3151 Meerkat: An Open Wire Servicehttp://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/govIt/2004/03/20.html#a4706 (Untitled)- March 20, 2004 OpenOffice for Windows 1.1.1rc3 Meerkat: An Open Wire Servicehttp://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/govIt/2004/03/20.html#a4705 (Untitled)- March 20, 2004 RSS in Government. News about how RSS is being used by international, federal, state, and local governments Recently approved feeds from Syndic8.comhttp://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/govIt/2004/03/20.html#a4697 (Untitled)- March 20, 2004 CNET Novell Stories: Novell GroupWise 6.5 for Linux is collaboration software for managing computer communications on Linux systems. The software, which is slated to be released to the public April 15, mirrors functions the company provides in its applications for Windows computers. GroupWise 6.5 also offers features for controlling e-mail, instant messaging, contacts and documents. Novell said that later this year, it will release a version of its Ximian Evolution software that features...http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/govIt/2004/03/20.html#a4694 (Untitled)- March 20, 2004 Novell Readies New Linux Release. SuSe Linux 9.1 will be the first commercial version of the open-source operating system based on the new 2.6 kernel. Users will get a performance boost and increased hardware compatibility. Wired Newshttp://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/govIt/2004/03/19.html#a4689 (Untitled)- March 19, 2004 Wichita School's PDA Experiment. JOEL JOHNSON -- Teleread has a story about the success of Wichita Unified School District 259's decision to distribute Palm PDAs to all their students. Students use the Palms to keep track of schedules and to take home notes from their teachers to their parents. I carried an organizer throughout... Gizmodohttp://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/govIt/2004/03/19.html#a4681 (Untitled)- March 19, 2004 Commoditization indeed. Notes From OSBC 2004. Yesterday, I hosted a panel on software commoditization, with some of the top minds in the open source world. They all made some interesting points and I just wanted to recap what they said. Since I was moderating, I think most of the recap is from scribbles on the back of a single sheet of paper. So there maybe some missing elements here. One of the questions I asked the panel was which companies or what products were at most risk to...http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/govIt/2004/03/19.html#a4682 (Untitled)- March 19, 2004 TomTom Go. JOSH RUBIN -- Navigation software developers, TomTom, have announced the TomTom Go-- a standalone in-car navigation system. Go has all the features of a built in nav system and sports a touch screen for easy control. You can even buy different color front plates to match your car. With 5... Gizmodohttp://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/govIt/2004/03/19.html#a4680 (Untitled)- March 19, 2004 ATM Media Player. JOEL JOHNSON -- What happens when an ATM crashes and reboots into a regular copy of Windows XP on the campus of Carnegie Mellon University The world's first Diebold Brand Media Player. Using the touch screen and the character mapper in Windows, the ATM was reprogrammed to play various looping... Gizmodohttp://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/govIt/2004/03/19.html#a4677 (Untitled)- March 19, 2004 Sun to Extend Java with Linux, New Price Points. Systems vendor looks to offer Linux on key infrastructure software and unveils subscription pricing models. internetnews.comhttp://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/govIt/2004/03/19.html#a4676 |