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  • Open-source bugs undermine digital signatures

    Two flaws in open-source cryptography app could allow an attacker to add content to a digitally signed message or forge signatures.

  • Red Hat project brings open-source to digital media

    Red Hat has launched a social-networking project called Mugshot to promote the use of open-source software for digital media.

  • Microsoft: An open-source champion?

    Open-source software is the industry's most notable "disruptive innovator", says Gartner. Will Microsoft be forced to advocate the platform?

  • Is open source in deep trouble?

    No matter what the outcome of SCO's suit against IBM over open-source code, corporations will be wary of any open-source investments, especially those that could unwittingly bring new legal risks.

  • Open source moved to phones

    Linux backers are hoping their open-source operating system will end up being the dark horse in the smart-phone operating system race—especially if the other contenders continue to struggle.

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    Australian Govt funds IT start-ups

    This week Australia's Federal Government announced it had allocated $3.6 million in funding to 57 local research projects so that they could be commercialised, with many of them being web or IT-related start-ups.

  • Read the blog post - Ella Morton

    Channel 10's wacky wiki marketing

    Why would Channel 10 bother with a Web site for its new drama series when there's Wikipedia? Well, here are several reasons.

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  • Open-source bugs undermine digital signatures

    Two flaws in open-source cryptography app could allow an attacker to add content to a digitally signed message or forge signatures.

  • Migration news: Windows to Linux, and vice versa

    Why did national radio broadcaster Austereo Group and consultancy Coffey International drop Linux for Windows? And why did soon-to-be-listed Wotif.com abandon Microsoft technologies for Red Hat and Oracle?

  • Microsoft: An open-source champion?

    Open-source software is the industry's most notable "disruptive innovator", says Gartner. Will Microsoft be forced to advocate the platform?

  • Microsoft's answer to Linux

    Despite threat of Linux and open source, software powerhouse's Server and Tools division brings home double-digital revenue growth -- again.

  • Why open source is bad for Australia

    Open source is actually anti-industry, and protecting it is not in Australia's interests, says one industry observer. Additional reading: Why one Norwegian city switched to Linux

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  • Real's open source code lacks MPEG-4

    RealNetworks on Wednesday released the last piece of its three-part open-source code for streaming digital media, but the server code lacks support for the industry standard MPEG-4.

  • Palm handed open-source browser

    Linux Labs has released a beta version of a Web browser for wireless-enabled Palm handhelds.

  • Open-source rival to MP3 released

    Members of the Ogg Vorbis project have unveiled release 1.0 of their software, an open-source alternative to the MP3 format.

  • Open source face-off: Mitch Kapor vs Bill Gates

    Determined to outduel Bill Gates Lotus founder Mitch Kapor is in search of an Outlook killer which promises to be a blast from the past, and open source.

  • Linux poised to plug in USB 2

    Support for a faster version of USB in Linux is imminent and will become a permanent part of the Linux landscape when the next version of the operating system is introduced.

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