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IBM Gives MS Office the Boot, Moves to OpenDocument Format
Jesse Kirdahy-ScaliaIn two days, IBM will have finished preparations to transition all of its employees away from Microsoft's Office suite to their own version of the OpenOffice.org suite, Lotus...
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Tech Brief: Skype to Bring Bluetooth Support to iPhone App?
Jesse Kirdahy-ScaliaWith the release of iPhone OS 3.1, Apple has provided app developers with APIs to allow audio recording via connected bluetooth hardware devices, making it possible for developers...
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UMass Boston Announces New Science in a Changing World Grad Program
Felicia M. SullivanBOSTON - From personalized genomics to measurements of sea-level rise, from al Qaeda websites to citizen technology-assessment panels, from brain-based education to labor-saving...
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Apple Lost an Opportunity to Innovate with Magic Mouse
Jesse Kirdahy-ScaliaSteve Jobs has finally done it with Apple's new Magic Mouse: the product is devoid of buttons. Instead of the usual left and right click with a scroll wheel, the Magic Mouse has a...
View ArticleGoogle Dashboard Is Only a Small Step Towards Data Collection Transparency
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View ArticleChromeOS' Thin Client Model Stifles Creativity Online
Jesse Kirdahy-ScaliaWith ChromeOS, Google is betting the sever farm on a new model of computing that leaves applications on web servers and trades power for ease of use and reliability. Optimized for...
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4chan DDoS Attack Defeats Sharecash's Cash for Spam Program
Jesse Kirdahy-ScaliaFollowing a months-long spat of constant attacks against 4chan that included spam, malicious links and disgusting child pornography, 4chan founder "Moot" unofficially called for a...
View ArticleOn the Fall Community Technology Conference Trail from Boston to New York City
Peter MillerThe recent short trail starts with "Technology for Social Change"— The Grassroots Use of Technology Conference X, October 16 and 17 at Northeastern University in Boston. It ends seven weeks...
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Add New Gestures to Magic Mouse with Two Free Utilities
Jesse Kirdahy-ScaliaApple released the multitouch capable Magic Mouse back in October, but as we wrote at the time, the software that ships with the mouse barely taps its hardware's potential. It was...
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New open source tool for procrastinators: ProcrasDonate
Clay Ward I'm writing to let you know about a hybrid service that we've just launched. It's called ProcrasDonate and it helps people improve how they spend their time online by creating what we call a...
View ArticleSoftware Update Roundup: Firefox Transmission & BetterTouchTool
Jesse Kirdahy-ScaliaThis week saw significant updates to two of Open Media Boston's favorite applications—Firefox and the Transmission bittorrent client—and continued development on the recently...
View ArticleReview: Premier Issue of the Journal of New Organizing
Peter MillerThe Journal of New Organizing, "an online publication devoted to reporting and analyzing organizing practices, leadership development, and campaign innovation in the progressive community,"...
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Litl's Webbook Brings the Most Tech Averse Online
Jesse Kirdahy-ScaliaFor the past month or so, Open Media Boston has had the chance to play with a unique breed of netbook streamlined for web content consumption produced by Boston-based company, litl....
View ArticleFrom DexCon2010 in Chicago to Media Reform in Boston This April— Community...
Peter MillerLast year's first Digital Excellence Conference and Technology Fair, Dexcon2010, went by little noticed by those outside of Chicago. Yet from the preconference outreach and publicity as...
View ArticleWho are the 99%: We the People — A Tribute to Ed Schwartz and the Institute...
Peter MillerAmidst the dispersion of local Occupy sites, an open session on civic education, a local community group electronic posting, and some online disappearances conspire for a recovery and renewal.
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