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Richard Stallman has spoken out about cloud computing and what he believes is a trap aimed at forcing people to buy into proprietary systems.

Cloud computing is basically where you store data online or run your servers via remote. Millions of people now upload personal data such as emails, photographs and, increasingly, their work, to sites owned by companies such as Google.

Stallman sees cloud computing as nothing more than …
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It is great to hear that at least one Open Source company has now made it onto Becta’s official list of suppliers to the UK education sector. 
As usual it’s all about money. The Open Source community has always advocated that schools in the UK adopted Free Open Source Software (FOSS) on the grounds that there were considerable cost savings to be had which would directly benefit schools and the taxpayer …
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I have to say a big thank you to Henny Zimer in Second Life aka Jeff Agamenoni, he and Chris presented a Microblogging session earlier as part of the Jokaydia Unconference. If you missed it then you missed out! Well done chaps, it was a really interesting session.

The Jokaydia Unconference has all but drawn to a close for today, with an informal get …
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The Jokaydia Unconference will be held this weekend in Second Life. Everyone is welcome to come along and participate, for further information click here
Newbies Please Note: We have planned a number of sessions especially for educators who are interested in gaining some Second Life skills! Join us to ask questions, learn about the Second Life interface and find out more about the Islands of jokaydia!
Looking forward …
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Ok well perhaps that should read, half a laptop per child.  News just in from The Inquirer, the first batch of Classmate PCs has been delivered to Portuguese schools. 3000 of an approximate 500,000, due to be distributed over the next three years. Current student to PC ratios stand at about 5:1, this should be reduced to 2:1 hopefully. So they cannot boast to having one laptop per child, …
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The Stuff Gadget Awards was held on wednesday night in London at the Dorchester Hotel, and the big winner of the night was Asus winning the gadget of the year award for the Eee PC 901.

This great little laptop has helped to kick off the netbook craze and has offered a really affordable way to be online and …
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Bill Trancer from internet tracking company Hitwise has been focusing research on social networking. He has information on more than 10 million web users, and has discovered that the number of 18-24 year olds searching for porn sites has decreased dramatically.

Searches for porn have decreased to only 10% a huge reduction  from 20% as it stood ten years ago. Trancer has noticed this shift stating that “young users spend so …
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I was reading desktoplinux.com and found this interesting article:
Lenovo, which years ago purchased IBMs personal computer business, appears to have quietly stopped offering Linux as a pre-installation option. None of the company’s 49 ThinkPad and IdeaPad notebook models — nor its many ThinkCenter and IdeaCenter desktops — can currently be ordered with Linux.

Lenovo does offer four high-end ThinkStation workstation models without any commercial operating system …
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Nottingham Trent University have introduced a Cyberpsychology masters degree, the first of its kind in the UK. The course is open to postgraduates and will look at online gaming and gambling, social networking as well as online dating.

Dr Monica Whitty, who’s running the course said that:
“As well as being academically challenging, with the possibility of students going on …
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Exciting stuff, OpenOffice.org 3.0 release candidate 1 is available to download from the website. It is not recommended for production deployment at this stage but it is suitable for use for anyone who wants to help with initial bug reporting, issues or errors.

Anyone wanting to download OpenOffice.org 2 can do so here, it is a great software package and it …
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