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Is Google Too Big? 
I didn't write this, but I'm posting it because I thought it was a good write up.


Written by Scott Spanbauer at PC World
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,132989-c,privacysecurity/article.html

From search to e-mail, from calendars to spreadsheets and text documents, more and more of what PC users read and create flows through one firm: Google.

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Wind River and Kontron Sign Global, Multi-Year Distribution Agreement for VxWorks
Forbes.com - 7 Hours ago
BusinessWire - Wind River and Kontron today announced a global, multi-year agreement under which Kontron will distribute Wind River's industry leading VxWorks and Wind River Linux operating systems. This
Wind River and Kontron extend collaboration with global agreement Embedded-europe.com
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PrismTech Claims DDS Middleware User Leadership after Outstanding Success of its
Reuters - 3 Hours ago
Customer Downloads Leap by >100x, Significant New Project Wins, High Revenue Growth, and Additional US Government Endorsements of Open Source Software BOSTON--(Business Wire)-- PrismTech, a world leader
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What open source can teach medical practice
ZDNet - 6 Hours ago
It is frustrating whenever personal medical questions become political questions. This happens all the time. Example A, ripped from the headlines, is the kerfluffle over mammograms. Women, doctors and
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Firefox hopes to one-up IE with fast graphics
CNET News.com - 9 Hours ago
Last week, Microsoft showed off some browser technology that could help Internet Explorer leapfrog the competition. But if Mozilla succeeds in its hope, Microsoft could be playing catch-up instead. The
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Mobile Linux Architect - Middlesex
ZDNet UK - 14 Hours ago
A brand new opportunity has arisen for a Mobile Linux Architect to join a leading mobile device manufacturer and to lead the design and development of Mobile Linux focused mobile handsets. A salary of
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Microsofts .NET Micro Framework is now free and open source
Charged Southern Africa - 3 Hours ago
Microsoft announced at its Professional Developer Conference on Tuesday the release of version 4.0 under the Apache 2.0 license. The license transfer makes good on a longstanding promise from Redmond
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New web-based platform said to improve customer service and lower operational cost
Mobile Europe - 7 Hours ago
WIN, a provider of interactive mobile entertainment and information services, today announced the launch of Enterprise Communicator, a new web-based mobile CRM communications platform said to be specifically
Big Brands Making Improvements Based On What Customers Say Online TechNews.AM
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Why open source could kill Android's chances
InfoWorld - 10 Hours ago
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Get extensions going in Firefox, redux
ZDNet Australia - 13 Hours ago
Previously on Null Pointer we looked at getting extensions working in Firefox betas . And that was fine until the fine folks at Firefox changed their minds. This bug shows that Firefox now implements
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Sharma: Open Source Hardware
PC Plus UK - 15 Hours ago
Out of all the many things I detest, the worst isÃ? paying for items and still not owning them. With theÃ? world the way it is, I have no option but to disobey the laws of economics and open my wallet
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Fedora 12 Pushes Bleeding Edge of Linux Networking
LinuxPlanet - 18 Hours ago
Fedora 12, codenamed 'Constantine,' made its debut this week, aimed at providing users with a long list of improvements for both servers, desktops and netbooks. While the latest installment of the Red
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KPG to offer open-source traceability in 2010
Packer Online - 20 Hours ago
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MXsense Announces Email Archiving Support for Linux and Unix Email Servers
Enterprise Open Source Magazine - 20 Hours ago
today announced a new version of its MXsense Web-based which now supports Linux and Unix operating systems. Organizations running Sendmail and compliant email servers on Linux, Unix, Sun Solaris, HP-UX
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The Problem With The Linux Community
ON Lamp - 6 Hours ago
I wrote a less than stellar review of openSUSE 11.2 this week for DistroWatch. Why? Well.. because this particular release really has issues: the installer choosing the wrong driver causing it to hang,
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First ELSE Linux phone out next year
ElectricPig - 7 Hours ago
The First ELSE is a brand new smartphone, running on a Linux-based operating system. Itâ??s not Android, but itâ??s still a powerful set up, and weâ??ve got all the details on the handset, due 2010, right
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Sendmail, Inc.: Sendmail Completes 250 Messaging Architecture Reviews with Global
Individual.com - 7 Hours ago
Sendmail, Inc., the leading provider of reliable and secure email and messaging infrastructures, today announced the completion of over 250 Messaging Architecture Reviews conducted with Global 1000 companies
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Mozilla posts record financial results
TechRadar.com - 9 Hours ago
Open-source darlings and Firefoxdeveloper Mozilla has posted record financial results this week, reporting increasedrevenues up five-per cent on the previous financial year. It seems like the recession
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Atlantik presents small Linux networking server
ECE - 9 Hours ago
Atlantik Elektronik presents the XPort Pro embedded Ethernet networking and compute module in an integrated, thumb-sized package. In addition to having the identical form factor as the original XPort,
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Google open-sources operating system
Electronics Supply & Manufacturing - 10 Hours ago
Google Inc. announced Thursday (Nov. 19) the open-sourcing of code for Chrome OS, the cloud-based operating system the company is developing to power netbooks. Sundar Pichai, Google's vice president of
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Allianz slashes $1m with move to Linux
Australian IT - 10 Hours ago
ALLIANZ has dramatically reduced its server numbers.
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Microsoft fails to open source Windows 7 USB tool
Heise Security - 9 Hours ago
A posting on Microsoft's Port 25 blog last week revealed that the company had failed to release the code of the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool. Microsoft had admitted that the tool contained code from
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Google Chrome OS has Linux challenger
Computerworld UK - 10 Hours ago
Jolicloud, an upcoming web-centric operating system for netbooks, will be prettier and more flexible than Google's Chrome OS, the company's CEO says. Based on the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, Jolicloud
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Content management interoperability standard almost ready
Computerworld UK - 10 Hours ago
A proposed standard aimed at helping content management systems communicate with each other could be finalised early next year. Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) was first announced
Momentum builds for open content management standard CIO Australia
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Two-Wheel Linux, and Other Reasons to Be Thankful for FOSS
Linux Insider - 14 Hours ago
Among the many reasons to be thankful for Linux and all that is FOSS are qualities like portability, flexibility, comprehensiveness, a cooperative nature, receptivity to innovation -- oh, and the fact
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Intel Linux Graphics Shine with Fedora 12
OSNews - 22 Hours ago
Phoronix has a and concluded that it performs better than previous releases of Fedora. 'Compared to Fedora 11 especially, Fedora 12 offers much-improved Intel Linux graphics. Besides just the frame-rates
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