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Here is an interesting feature from the Linux Insider about Carnegie Mellon West’s new Software Management Program. This program allows students to learn software life cycle management that is focused on managers that will lead global distributed development teams. Sounds like an open source project to me.
Carnegie Mellon West’s Software Management program is built on […]

Here is an article from GMANews.TV about a NTC plan to introduce a new registration sticker for mobile phones and a recent update on how this will increase the cost of handsets.
Dealers, suppliers and even subscribers who plan to sell mobile phones soon must obtain National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) registration stickers – which regulatory body […]

I just finished reading this Ars Technica feature on Bill Gates’ comments on the need to increase of the number of H1-B visas issues by the US government. The article primarily discusses the wages that companies like Microsoft pay to their foreign employees under the H1-B program. The assertion of anti-H1-B proponents is that the […]

Congratulations to all CS 197 students who have completed their capstone projects for this school year. I am particularly pleased by the performance of my advisees this school year. I believe this is the year in which most of the projects where completed either on-time or ahead of time.

Prototype Web Services and Instant Messaging […]

I found this interesting piece from OSDir about “Why Microsoft should acquire Linux?”. Actually, to be clear, it is actually a piece about why Microsoft should buy a major Linux distribution such as RedHat or Novell.

Alright, I’m going to say this. I think Microsoft should acquire Linux. Now, I understand that Linux is not as […]

I just browsed a list of top ten (10) open source innovators from an EarthWeb Datamation article. The article here seemed pretty strange to me as some of the companies featured do not quite open their innovation.
It’s a contentious time for the open-source community. Microsoft has partnered with Novell, Oracle is angling for Red Hat’s […]

I just finished listening to a number of backlogged Harvard Business Review Ideacasts. My interests was intrigued by one of them. It was HBR IdeaCast 21 on Extreme Jobs. This features an interview with Sylvia Ann Hewlett who is a co-author of the highly provocative “Extreme Jobs: The Dangerous Allure of the 70-Hour Workweek” featured […]

Anything that puts too much power into the hands of a single person or entity should be considered corrupting. Information is a lot like power. In this information age, who ever controls a lot of information definitely has a significant amount of power. In the light of this latest Google Desktop exploit (reported by NetworkWorld), […]

Here is this scoop from New Telephony about some major announcements about the future of SMS and Instant Messaging. Actually, it basically states that the future of SMS is Instant Messaging.
The unforeseen popularity of ringtones may be synonymous with “windfall” for mobile operators, but text messaging is really the one to watch. That’s why industry […]

Here is a scoop from News.com via Slashdot about the world’s very first Internet election and it will be in former Soviet Baltic State of Estonia.

The Baltic state of Estonia plans to become the world’s first country to allow voting in a national parliamentary election via the Internet next month–with a little help from […]