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Neelie Kroes, European Commissioner: Digital Agenda for Europe – how it will affect you . 2010-03-15

i-policy.org - Digital Agenda for Europe – how it will affect you:

This Digital Agenda is effectively my slice of the Europe 2020 strategy. It will be the work programme which I will take on with my Commission colleagues for the next five years. The Digital Agenda will consist of 6 key themes, which will have an impact on your daily life – both as businesspeople and as citizens: Read More

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Google unveils business app marketplace . 2010-03-12

ZDNet - Google is bringing the app store concept to business cloud computing, giving software developers a storefront for Google Apps customers.
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Sun's head of open source leaves the company . 2010-03-11

ITPRO - Oracle has lost its third high-profile executive since it merged with Sun Microsystems in a $7.4 billion deal at the beginning of the year. Simon Phipps, previously chief open source officer, announced his departure on his blog earlier this week. Read More

Google Targets Microsoft With DocVerse Deal . 2010-03-11

WSJ - Stepping up its fight against Microsoft Corp., Google Inc. acquired DocVerse, a technology startup that allows people to edit Microsoft Office files online. Google paid around $25 million for the San Francisco-based company, according to a person familiar with the matter. In an interview, Jonathan Rochelle, group product manager for Google Apps, said Google acquired DocVerse to make it easier for people to transition from desktop software to online software. The latter is an area where Google is trying to get a leg up over Microsoft, with its Google Apps service, which includes online word-processing and spreadsheet software. He declined to comment on the deal's price. Read More

London Government Accused Of Open Source Inaction . 2010-03-10

eWeek - A Green Party representative has accused the London government of failing to fully exploit open source software, but activists say the Greater London Authority (GLA) is doing well… at least compared to central government. Despite a central government commitment to use open source, London’s local government has too many plans “in the pipeline” and not enough actually delivered, said Darren Johnson, a Green Party member of the GLA: “It is clear that nothing is likely to happen without some major push towards progress”. Read More

CeBIT 2010: Recipe for Office Migration . 2010-03-10

Linux Magazine - In the Open Source Forum at CeBIT, Florian Schiessl of the Munich city council shared his experiences about their migration to OpenOffice. The city council of the Bavarian capital has more than 15,000 PC workstations in 51 locations across the city that were converted end of 2009 to OpenOffice. The migration was based on a decision the city council made in 2003 to make the desktops independent of particular software vendors by using Linux and open source. Read More

Microsoft changes EU browser ballot shuffling . 2010-03-09

Computerworld - Responding to reports last week that its European ballot screen was not truly randomizing the positions of the top five browsers, Microsoft today said it has changed the algorithm that shuffles the spots. Read More

SCO vs. Linux: The trial can begin . 2010-03-09

The H Open - The SCO Group is to receive 2 million dollars from a group of investors headed by majority shareholder Ralph Yarro. Following an oral hearing, the Delaware bankruptcy court dealing with SCO has approved the loan. This means that the company now has sufficient funds for the pending jury trial against Novell. The trial, which is to address rights to Unix and the legality of protective licences for Linux users, is set to start today and is expected to last three weeks. Read More

Mozilla lays foundation for web's next 100 years . 2010-03-08

The Register - The Mozilla Foundation is best known for Firefox, but as its head Mitchell Baker recently told us, the group's mission is not merely to produce a browser that kills Internet Explorer. "The mission is to build certain qualities into the human experience of the internet. We are in a reasonable spot with the browser, and Firefox is important for the immediate future. But we've barely started in user control," Baker said. What exactly was Baker talking about? Read More

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