It was thus fitting that Estonia, the current EU presidency, brought together Ministers from 32 countries (under the umbrellas of the EU and European Free Trade Association) to adopt the Tallinn Declaration on E-Government, creating a renewed political dynamism coupled with legal tools to accelerate the implementation of a range of existing EU policy instruments (e.g., the e-Government Action Plan and ISA² program). Perhaps the most significant development for open source supporters is the explicit recognition of open source software (OSS) as a key driver towards achieving ambitious governmental digitisation goals by 2020.
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DuckDuckGo Search Engine Gets Boost After PRISM Scandal
Cadie Thompson | CNBC | June 19, 2013
The 'anonymous' search engine DuckDuckGo is getting a boost off the PRISM scandal that is putting big tech companies like Google and Apple to shame. Read More »
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E-Book Ruling Gives Amazon An Advantage
David Streitfeld | New York Times | July 10, 2013
Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, loves disrupting markets. In that regard, he must be having a delightful summer. The book business, once so mired in the past it seemed part of the antiques trade, is up for grabs. Read More »
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Europe Pledges Support For Open Source Government Solutions
By James Lovegrove | October 10, 2021
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European technology companies launch Coalition for Competitive Digital Markets
Press Release |
Coalition For Competitive Digital Markets |
October 26, 2021
A group of 23 technology companies operating in Europe from 14 different countries and a business association of more than 45,000 digital SMEs announced today a new coalition to advocate for fair rules in digital markets. The Coalition for Competitive Digital Markets aims to contribute to a more balanced and open digital environment. Today’s internet is dominated by services and products offered by a small number of dominant online platforms, such as Apple, Google, Facebook and Amazon. These so-called “gatekeepers” control consumers’ access to information and abuse their position in order to limit market access for European businesses that offer alternative business models and services such as search, email, social media, operating systems and browsers.
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Everything You Need To Know About Why Apple's Maps Problem Isn't Going Away Soon
Rebecca Greenfield | The Atlantic Wire | September 21, 2012
Apple knows it has a Maps issue, but the company is saying, "the more people use it, the better it will get." Unfortunately, as mapping technology explains, that fix won't solve its location data problem very soon. Read More »
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Exclusive: Giving Stephen Hawking A Voice
Joao Medeiros | WIRED UK | December 2, 2014
Stephen Hawking first met Gordon Moore, the cofounder of Intel, at a conference in 1997. Moore noticed that Hawking's computer, which he used to communicate, had an AMD processor and asked him if he preferred instead a "real computer" with an Intel micro-processor...
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Facebook Acquires ProtoGeo, Maker Of Activity Tracking App Moves
Aditi Pai | MobiHealthNews | April 24, 2014
Social networking giant Facebook has acquired Finland-based fitness app maker Protogeo for an undisclosed sum, according to a blog post from ProtoGeo. The company’s high-profile app, called Moves, passively tracks a user’s daily activity using the phone’s built-in accelerometer in order to provide all-day tracking without killing the phone’s battery.
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Facebook Blows Up The Server Industry With New Open Source Hardware
Lucian Parfeni | Softpedia | January 17, 2013
It may seem a bit strange, but Facebook has some serious hardware chops these days. It started with the open hardware server designs, but this year the company is doing one better and unveiling a new standard server design that should allow for much more modular servers and racks. Read More »
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Factory Workers in China: A Pyrrhic Victory for a World That Lost Its Conscience
Jason Perlow | ZDNet | February 16, 2012
...what does our unyielding appetite for Chinese durable goods mean for the first world conscience?...One only has to look at the overall picture in China to fully understand the magnitude of the human rights problem and why it is unlikely to abate anytime soon...
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FDA Won't Regulate Medical Device Data Systems
Dan Bowman | Fierce Health IT | June 20, 2014
Draft guidance published Friday by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration seemingly paves the way for smoother medical device interoperability by lowering the burden on developers of medical device data systems (MDDS) to comply with agency requirements...
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Feds Put Heat On Web Firms For Master Encryption Keys
Declan McCullagh | CNET | July 24, 2013
Whether the FBI and NSA have the legal authority to obtain the master keys that companies use for Web encryption remains an open question, but it hasn't stopped the U.S. government from trying. Read More »
First Firefox Smartphone Launches In Spain
Staff Writer | Phys.org | July 3, 2013
The world's first consumer sales of a smartphone powered by the Firefox operating system have launched in Spain. Read More »
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Forensic Scientist Identifies Suspicious 'Back Doors' Running On Every iOS Device
Jason D. O'Grady | ZD Net | July 21, 2014
During his talk at HOPE/X Jonathan Zdziarski detailed several undocumented services (with names like 'lockdownd,' 'pcapd,' 'mobile.file_relay,' and 'house_arrest') that run in the background on over 600 million iOS devices...
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Former Microsoft Executive Says CEO Ballmer Culls Internal Rivals To Retain Power
Bill Rigby | Reuters | January 21, 2013
Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer is not the right leader for the world's largest software company but holds his grip on it by systematically forcing out any rising manager who challenges his authority, claims a former senior executive who has written a book about his time at the company. Read More »
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Forrester: $2.1 Trillion will go into IT Spending in 2013; Apps and the U.S. Lead the Charge
Ingrid Lunden | TechCrunch | July 15, 2013
Forrester Research has now released its annual look at the state of IT spend globally, and the analysts project that there will be $2.06 trillion invested across software, hardware, and IT services by enterprises and governments in 2013. [...] Read More »
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