Feb
25
2009
William Robinson writes “Comet Lulin, formally known as C/2007 N3, which is on a visit to the inner solar system, will make its closest approach to earth tonight, about 38 million miles away. To the naked eye, the comet looks like a fuzzy patch of hazy light in the southeastern sky near Saturn, at the tip of Leo the Lion’s hind leg. After this brief visit, Lulin will be heading back out to its kin in the Oort Cloud.”

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Feb
25
2009
Cameron Logie writes “The UK Government has today announced full backing for greater adoption of Open Source solutions in the public sector. According to the article at the BBC News site, ‘Government departments will be required to adopt open source software when “there is no significant overall cost difference between open and non-open source products” because of its “inherent flexibility.”‘”

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Feb
25
2009
BigTimOBrien writes “In this interview with O’Reilly Broadcast, Carl Malamud discusses his grassroots effort to build support for his appointment as Public Printer of the United States, running the Government Printing Office — an agency that opened its doors the day Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated. Malamud has published his plans and platform on yeswescan.org: ‘For over 20 years, Carl Malamud has been publishing government information on the Internet. In 2008, Public.Resource.Org published over 32.4 million pages of primary legal materials, as well as thousands of hours of video and thousands of photographs. In the 1990s, Malamud fought to place the databases of the United States on the Internet. In the 1980s, Malamud fought to make the standards that govern our global Internet open standards available to all. Malamud would continue to work to preserve and extend our public domain, and would place special attention to our relationship with our customers, especially the United States Congress.'”

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Feb
25
2009
Comments Off on Ryerson privacy breach highlights immature IT, analyst says – IT World Canada Blogs | tags: google, news, privacy | posted in technical news
Feb
25
2009
Comments Off on Chlorine evacuation order has been lifted – Canada.com | tags: cap, google, Mac, network, news, tv | posted in technical news
Feb
25
2009
Comments Off on Google, Amazon, others want CRTC to ban internet interference – CBC.ca | tags: amazon, google, Mac, news, privacy, program, programming, technology, tv | posted in technical news
Feb
25
2009
Comments Off on Canadian firms lead in adopting cloud computing – IT World Canada Blogs | tags: google, news, technology, tv, web | posted in technical news
Feb
25
2009
Comments Off on Toyota and Home Hardware to team up for a multi-year business … – Woodstock Sentinel Review | tags: google, news, tv | posted in technical news
Feb
25
2009
Comments Off on Tech products may encourage consumption, pollution: Scientist – Vancouver Sun | tags: google, news | posted in technical news
Feb
25
2009
Comments Off on Can Microsoft retail succeed where others have failed? – ZDNet Asia | tags: Apple, google, Mac, microsoft, news, web | posted in technical news