Topic: COMPUTER - on November 18, 2003 at 10:01:34 PM CET
Backed by president, Brazil leans away from Microsoft
If he is to make good on his promise to improve life for the tens of millions of Brazilians who live in dire poverty, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva knows that one key challenge is to bridge a massive technology gap.
And if that means shunning Microsoft Corp software in South America's largest country, then so be it.
Silva's top technology officer wants to transform the land of samba and Carnival into a tech-savvy nation where everyone from schoolchildren to government bureaucrats uses open-source software instead of costly Windows products.
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Topic: - on November 18, 2003 at 9:55:38 PM CET
Medical Cannabis Inc.: The World's First Publicly-Traded Marijuana Company
Medical Cannabis Inc. (the 'Company'), is in negotiation with a TSX/NASD:BB public company, pursuant to which the Company, Medical Cannabis Inc., has agreed to sell 51% ownership to the public company and an option on the additional 49%. The agreement may be concluded this week.
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Topic: - on November 18, 2003 at 9:49:24 PM CET
Bands 'urged to cut album tracks'
Record labels are urging artists to put fewer tracks on albums because fans are put off by too many average songs, the Los Angeles Times has reported.
"There's been a tendency to overload CDs because the technology permits it," Sony US president Don Ienner said.
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Topic: MUSIK - on November 18, 2003 at 9:41:30 PM CET
Michael Jackson's ranch searched
Police are conducting a search of pop star Michael Jackson's Neverland ranch in California.
Officers used a warrant to enter the 45-year-old singer's home in the Santa Ynez Valley, near Santa Barbara.
No reason has been given for the search at the self-styled King of Pop's ranch, which houses a collection of theme-park style rides, a zoo and a mini railway.
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Topic: MUSIK - on November 18, 2003 at 7:56:48 PM CET
Musikindustrie setzt auf "Qualität statt Quantität"
Mit einer neuen Idee versucht die Musikindustrie den ständig sinkenden Absatz von Musik-CDs nun anzukurbeln: Die CDs sollen künftig weniger Songs beinhalten. Damit will man das Interesse der Konsumenten, die sich immer öfter auf digitalem Weg mit Musik versorgen, am Kauf ganzer Alben wieder beleben.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on November 18, 2003 at 2:19:29 PM CET
Send Back Your MP3s!
We knew stealing that music was wrong. Stealing is never OK. But, it was just too easy. So we told ourselves we were just "sharing" the music, because everyone knows that sharing is a good thing.
But then we learned what we were really doing. We heard our favorite recording artists telling us that our "sharing" is really shoplifting and piracy. We were stealing from the musicians and singers we love!
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Topic: BOARD NEWS - on November 18, 2003 at 9:59:08 AM CET
Laster, Lüge, Liebestollheit
CD-ROM fasst Analysen und Dokumente zur Hexenverfolgung zusammen. Hexen sind gesellschaftsfähig geworden: Keine Halloween- oder Harry-Potter-Party kommt mehr ohne sie aus. Dabei steht der Begriff der Hexe für eines der grausamsten Kapitel in der Geschichte der europäischen Zivilisation, in dem die Unterdrückung der Frau wie die Abwehr von allem Andersartigen ihren Höhepunkt erreichte.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on November 18, 2003 at 9:53:16 AM CET
Schnipseljagd im Stasi-Müll
Das Berliner Fraunhofer-Institut und die Lufthansa Systems Group haben ihr Konzept zur Rekonstruktion zerrissener Stasi-Akten vorgelegt. Die Entscheidung liegt jetzt beim Deutschen Bundestag.
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Topic: BOARD NEWS - on November 18, 2003 at 9:50:38 AM CET
BLUEJACKING
Um dem Bluetooth-Handy eines anderen Menschen eine dubiose Meldung zu schicken, bedarf es lediglich eines Mobiltelefons und eines stark frequentierten Ortes. "Bluejacking" droht, zum Sport zu werden. Jagderfahrungen einer 13-jährigen britischen Jugendlichen.
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