According to MAPPS, an association of private firms in the remote sensing, spatial data and geographic information systems, the economic stimulus bill H.R. 1 signed into law last week by President Obama includes more than […]
Last September I blogged about Splashtop which Asus was embedding on its motherboards, so when you turned the machine on it would boot Linux almost instantaneously, and you could do email, internet and other routine […]
According to Slashdot, “The Vietnamese Ministry of Information and Communications has issued an administrative ruling increasing the use of Free Open Source Software products at state agencies, increasing the software’s use both in the back […]
I have just received a very sad letter from Dr Dobb’s Journal that in some ways signals the end of an era, “we regret to inform you that Dr Dobb’s Journal ceased its standalone monthly […]
You might have noticed in my blog about the stimulus package that President Obama signed into law just recently that it included $400 million to fund the establishment of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). […]
According to a report on Slashdot, Russia is planning to develop a Linux-based national operating system (OS). The original Russian report is translated here.
The U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) is setting up a competitive process to award $4.3 billion for projects to upgrade the US electric grid, which is one of important technology provisions of the economic stimulus […]
Recently I blogged about a new military “open source” site Forge.mil. I’ve received more information and a location where you can track the development of this site. The correct URL for the site will be […]