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Open source debate brought to a close - for now
Talkback This hit Birmingham city council's attempt to move 134 library staff to a full set of open source software, including SuSE's Linux operating system, OpenOffice 2.0 and web-browser Firefox. The city's library management software, Galaxy, works only...
[November 20, 2006, 23:01]
Birmingham considers Linux extension
News The project was subsequently mothballed, and some machines in the city's library cluster were migrated to Windows XP instead. Aside from the community projects, Birmingham's current open-source footprint covers 200 PCs in the main city library...
[March 5, 2007, 8:37]
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Talkback Birmingham City Council - initially pursued ambitious plans for an 'Open Desktop' in Birmingham's Central Library. Despite the best intentions of library staff, their plans were scuppered by the amateurism of the Council's IT department.
[February 27, 2007, 16:13]
Houston: we have a problem with Office
News Richard Lewis, chief information officer for the city, said response to the library trial was so good that when the city began looking for alternatives to Microsoft Office, SimDesk was a leading contender -- in part, because of the costly new...
[January 24, 2003, 14:50]
CallingCodes for Nokia 9500/9300
Downloads This application is also available as part of the MegaPack application library! MegaPack gives you a library of 87 full featured applications in eight different categories. Click here for detailed information.L3''s CallingCodes puts the...
[August 29, 2005, 8:00]
Library Uses Security Tool to Cut IT Support Time, Focus on Business Growth
White Papers The Everett Public Library, located in the city of Everett, Washington, manages two library branches that provide patrons with books, CDs, DVDs, and a range of educational services. The library must carefully manage a limited technology budget, and...
[December 15, 2006, 0:00]
City turns away from Office
News Richard Lewis, chief information officer for the city, said response to the library trial was so good that when the city began looking for alternatives to Microsoft Office, SimDesk was a leading contender -- in part, because Microsoft enacted last...
[January 27, 2003, 8:14]
Will you tune in to “Broadcast 2.0”..?
Blog Comment Years ago a person would be judged on what books they had in their home library. Later it was the record collection (hide the Bay City Rollers album now! Hey Adrian, and then more recently their CD's and iPODs.
[December 15, 2008, 9:13]
Tucson Pima Public Library: Stepping Up Efficiency
White Papers Serving the City of Tucson and Pima County, Arizona, the Tucson- Pima Public Library is a 22-branch library system with approximately two million books and other items. The library's primary interest in installing an RFID system was to have self...
[January 24, 2006, 23:00]
Finns get city-wide mesh network
News Outdoor nodes currently include 11 mobile-access points placed on buses, a ferry and even a mobile library. The city of Oulu announced on Thursday that it is using mesh-networking technology from wireless networking manufacturer Strix Systems to...
[February 22, 2007, 16:24]
OnTour
Downloads Additionally, OnTour allows you to manually add artists to track, can deliver 'recommended artists' based on your existing music library and can display 'all artists' for your city.
[March 14, 2006, 9:39]
Hostos Community College Reduces Student Paper Waste With Solution From Lexmark
White Papers Blue recycle bins in the library were always full and multi-page documents sat unclaimed on printers and copiers. Hostos Community College, a two-year academic institution located in Bronx, New York, is a growing part of the City University of New...
[May 24, 2007, 1:00]
A-Z Mini London Street Atlas
Downloads These can be installed along-side this publication and stored on storage cards to provide a useful library of maps which can be added and removed as required.System RequirementsThis downloadable Pocket PC map has been designed for a Windows Mobile...
[September 10, 2005, 8:00]
The H.P. Lovecraft Collection
Downloads Lovecraft Collection to your Pocket PC, start Microsoft Reader and click Library. Lovecraft Collection contains: At the Mountains of Madness The Evil Clergyman Azathoth The Festival Beyond the Wall of Sleep The Haunter Of The Dark Celephais The...
[September 22, 2005, 8:00]
Forbes rich list fall prey to high-tech fraudster
News He accessed the Internet through a local library branch. US authorities claim to have cracked a bizarre case of identity theft in which a New York City busboy used high-tech equipment to steal millions from more than 200 of Forbes Magazine's...
[March 20, 2001, 14:04]
Report criticises Google's porn filters
News Those include sites from IBM, Apple Computer, the City University of New York, Groliers, and the Library of Congress. It's perhaps unlikely that many humans would have classified a BBC News report on East Timor, Mattel's site about its Scrabble...
[April 11, 2003, 7:56]
Europe and the US philosophically divided on open source?
News Birmingham City Council, the largest local authority in Europe, is moving 1,500 desktops and all the associated back-end servers in its library service to open source software for a year-long trial. There have been few high-profile adoptions of...
[November 8, 2005, 10:15]
Librarians issue file-sharing support
News The five major US library associations are planning to file a legal brief on Friday siding with Streamcast Networks and Grokster in the California suit, brought by the major record labels and Hollywood studios.
[September 26, 2003, 11:10]
US Report: DVD seeing off Divx threat
News While all the major Hollywood studios are planning to release movies on DVD, Time Warner Video and Sony Pictures Entertainment (the owner of Columbia and Tri-Star) have refused to commit their large library of films to Divx.
[September 10, 1998, 7:11]
A Year Ago: DVD seeing off Divx threat
News While all the major Hollywood studios are planning to release movies on DVD, Time Warner Video and Sony Pictures Entertainment (the owner of Columbia and Tri-Star) have refused to commit their large library of films to Divx.
[September 10, 1999, 7:00]
