HANNOVER, Germany -- Another CeBIT Fair drew to a close Wednesday, leaving in its wake hundreds of thousands of weary travelers who drove, trained or flew into this rainy northern German town to see the latest wares computer and software developers had to show.
A Linux programmer reported a new victory in a German court on Thursday in enforcing the General Public License, which governs countless projects in the free and open-source software realms.
For no particular reason that I can discern, a 1979 Kenny Rogers song popped into my head as I was considering the ever more complex morass that is the national broadband network tender which Senator Stephen Conroy defended in his CeBIT keynote speech.
Software maker SAP plans to release by month's end a new set of data integration technologies that could set up a clash with other companies in the business of stitching together incompatible software.
A talking washing machine on display at CeBit this week could pave the way to home electrical devices that respond to voice commands--and can even help inexperienced users to operate them.
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