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- Linguistic balkanization and the Internet
- A recent UN summit lamented the fact that domain names use only ASCII characters. Though this is not a problem for English speakers, given that they don't use accented characters, much less characters from other languages such as Russian, Chinese, or any language that uses a "non-Roman" alphabet, it galls...
- Tags: ENGLISH
- Blog posts 2006-11-01
- 5% of Americans do not speak any English
- An estimated 5% of US adults are not literate in English, which means 11 mln people lack the skills to perform everyday tasks, National Assessment of Adult Literacy says.
- Tags: ENGLISH
- Blog posts 2005-12-20
- The WGIG should embrace English
- I printed last week the Report of the Working Group on Internet Governance, and finally got around to reading it. The Working Group on Internet Governance WGIG was set up pursuant to goals set out at the World Summit on the Information Society WSIS, which I attended in December of...
- Tags: ENGLISH, WGIG, Internet
- Blog posts 2005-07-21
- Why the third world won't save open source
- The primary barrier to Linux growth is the cost of moving from a Windows ecosystem to a Linux ecosystem. Developing nations, however, have less existing IT infrastructure. Much as African nations are bypassing wired telecommunications and moving straight to wireless, why can't developing nations bypass the Windows standard and grow...
- Tags: ENGLISH, Linux, information technology, open source
- Blog posts 2005-05-04
- Why the third world won't save open source
- The primary barrier to Linux growth is the cost of moving from a Windows ecosystem to a Linux ecosystem. Developing nations, however, have less existing IT infrastructure. Much as African nations are bypassing wired telecommunications and moving straight to wireless, why can't developing nations bypass the Windows standard and grow...
- Tags: ENGLISH, Linux, information technology, open source
- Blog posts 2005-05-04
- 81.5% of visits to United Nations Web site look for English pages
- Of the nearly 26 mln pages viewed during June 2004, 21.2 mln were in English, Secretary-General Kofi Annan said in a report to the 191-nation U.N. General Assembly. About 1.2 mln were in Spanish, another 1.2 mln in Chinese, 1.1 mln in French, 658,000 in Russian and 614,000 in Arabic,...
- Tags: ENGLISH
- Blog posts 2004-10-02
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- Can you trust kids with a Kindle?
- As more and more reports point to Amazon's attempts to enter the $5.5 billion US market for textbooks with their Kindle e-reader, one has to ask, can you trust kids with these things? I know Amazon's efforts are really focused on college students, but I'm looking at...
- Tags: Text, Textbook, Kindle, Channel Management, Web Browsers, Marketing, Internet, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- Defendant in key RIAA decision destroyed evidence
- Defendant in key RIAA decision destroyed evidenceSo they are sueing someone with no money. LOLKnow what my insurance company told me when i was hit by a driver with no insurance, no job and was living with relatives.... "to bad for you" I was lucky, my mother insisted...
- Tags: E-mail, Insurance, fool, RIAA
- Discussion threads 2008-08-27
- Mozilla shows off Ubiquity: Mashups for the rest of us
- Mozilla Labs introduced Ubiquity, an experiment that would allow users to create mashups at will without any advance knowledge. The game plan for Ubiquity, still in its early stages, is to allow users to control the browser by searching on something in real English and then connecting...
- Tags: Ubiquity, Mozilla Corp., Mashup, Mozilla Labs, Collaboration, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- ThumbCal (CAB)
- With simple gestures you can slide through days, weeks, months and years. ThumbCal lets you organize your appointments and tasks very quick and simple.Some Features: fingerfriendly interface; skinnable/customizable- works on QVGA & VGA screens in portrait, landscape and square screen modes- supports language files for translation in nearly every language...
- Tags: Appointment, ThumbApps
- Software downloads 2008-08-26
- Get those ToS sorted
- The spat between WidgetLaboratory and Ning highlights one of the running sores in the current rush to all things 2.0: no-one and I mean no-one has given enough thought to how Terms of Service ToS are going to operate in the real world once cloud based services start to scale...
- Tags: Terms Of Service, Ning, E-mail, Online Communications, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-25
- News to know: RIP enterprise data center; Red Hat breach; Google
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Dion Hinchcliffe: Are we ready to declare the "time of death" for the enterprise data center? Joe McKendrick: Is SOA an elixir or real fix for 'medieval'...
- Tags: Google Inc., Red Hat Inc., Palm Inc., Video, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Corporate Communications, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Open Source, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-25
- Web archiving enterprises: keep trying
- Through my keen observations, deep procrastination and occasional drunken ramblings, there are three things which annoy me about a service or product before I even use them. These three things, from a consumer's point of view, are the following: having a product with a...
- Tags: Web, Page, Archiving, CSS, Microsoft Windows, Web Browsers, Productivity, Business Intelligence, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Enterprise Software, Data Management, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-08-24
- China cuts off iTunes, likely over 'Songs of Tibet'
- China cuts off iTunes, likely over 'Songs of Tibet'Learn from M$, Google and YahooThey cooperated with the local bully, they were allowed to run business over there. Don't p*ss of their government, that's the key in China. Yahoo went so far they handed in evidence to China government to help...
- Tags: Tibetan family, Han, census, Apple iTunes
- Discussion threads 2008-08-22
- Worker suspended over loss of data on all English prisoners
- Worker suspended over loss of data on all English prisonersCriminals protected?Names, birthdays, and criminal histories of criminals in England are not public information??RE: Worker suspended over loss of data on all English prisonersGood, just what we need: A society where everyone is required to 'think again' based on a sense...
- Tags: English prisoner, prisoner, worker
- Discussion threads 2008-08-22
- Worker suspended over loss of data on all English prisoners
- An employee at Home Office contractor PA Consulting has been suspended after the loss of a memory stick holding the unencrypted details of every prisoner in England and Wales. A staff member at PA Consulting Group has been suspended after the contractor lost details on all prisoners in England...
- Tags: Data Loss, Data, Worker, Spokesperson, Government Department, Government, Memory, Flash Memory, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, David Meyer ZDNet.co.uk, security, UK, memory stick, Home Office
- News items 2008-08-22
- 2008 Mazda CX-9 Grand Touring 4dr SUV AWD (3.7L 6cyl 6A)
- Photo gallery:2009 Mazda CX-9 Grand TouringAfter spending a week with the top-of-the-line 2008 Mazda CX-9 Grand Touring, we found much that we liked; however, we also found almost every positive thing we had to say about the SUV came with a caveat. Inside, the CX-9's leather seats and ambient lighting...
- Tags: Bluetooth, spec sheet, SUV, CX-9, Mazda Motor Corp.
- Product reviews 2008-08-21
- Annotated Chinese Reader (exe)
- Click to display unknown HanZi info anywhere. Annotate Chinese Zi/word/paragraph. Online Chinese-English dictionary. Most convenient tool for reading Chinese text. HanZi definition, parts decomposition, stroke order, pronunciation - All is just 2 clicks away. It also has function to speak out Chinese/English text. Version 2.24 adds capability to annotate whole...
- Tags: Text, HanWJ, Productivity
- Software downloads 2008-08-21
- Our educational system needs an overhaul (and how can Intel help?)
- Our educational system needs an overhaul (and how can Intel help?)kids?Not sure at what age group you are referring to when you say kids.Basic computer skills are all that are necessary for middle and high school. If a student would like to explore advanced uses of a computer they...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Intel Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-20
- Nanospheres moving faster than light?
- Nanospheres moving faster than light?English?Seriously, zdnet is not a science journal. It all sounds interesting, but understand the article requires prior understanding of other concepts.From what i gather they are saying the "faster than light limit" does not apply to these objects because they are not light?I also have...
- Tags: laser, Nanospheres, beam
- Discussion threads 2008-08-20
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