Developers behind the next version of KDE, an open-source Linux desktop environment, are trying to make their software more accessible to people with disabilities, a conference has heard. Accessibility is a major theme at the KDE Community World Summit, currently taking place in Ludwigsburg, Germany. On 22 and 23 August the summit held a Unix Accessibility Forum, bringing together developers and people with disabilities.
IBM is close to signing a deal with a regional university that will grant free access to its latest hardware for open source developers in the Asia-Pacific market.
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The decision by Yahoo management to eliminate some of the adult content on its massive site fills me with gloom, not simply because it caved in to an organised protest from the fringe, but because when a universal site becomes provincial, we all lose.
If there ever was an opportunity for a broadcaster to showcase the potential of internet video, this was it, and Seven has blown it. Perhaps its executives should have rung their mates at NBC in the US and gotten some pointers on online coverage.
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In October, Yahoo ran an Open Hack Day event in Bangalore, hosted by one of the company's co-founders, David Filo. Two hundred local developers were invited to a 24-hour code-a-thon to combine their own ideas with mashed-up services from Yahoo's own library of APIs.
Google's Developer Day 2007 conference kicked off globally in Sydney this morning and ZDNet Australia went along to record all things Google.
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The government says that on a national level, the ICT sector is not suffering from a skills shortage. But the scene on the ground -- at state and territory level -- tells a different story.
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Developers are to get access to the handheld operating system, in a move that the company hopes will encourage the creation of more applications.
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