Google sues US government agency over using Microsoft only
Google has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of the Interior for requiring that messaging technologies must be part of the Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite in…
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Omeka launches a hosted platform to move museum collections to the cloud
Open-source publishing platform Omeka announces today the launch of a hosted Web service, Omeka.net. While similar in some ways to the content management system provided by WordPress, Omeka…
Amazon Kindle will let you lend your eBooks. Once. Maybe.
Amazon's Kindle Team announced on Friday that it plans to make lending for Kindle available "soon," reports ReadWriteWeb.
Why buy the cow? Open Wi-Fi networks slow broadband adoption
A report by analyst firm Mintel released this week claims that "Wi-Fi pirating" could be a main reason for the slow growth of broadband adoption over recent years,…
The story behind ‘Free Public WiFi’-It’s not
You've probably seen it a thousand times and even thought "Hey, why not?" but it never seems to work, says ReadWriteWeb.
Windows phone 7 revealed: What you need to know
Microsoft officially unveiled its new mobile operating system, Windows Phone 7, at a press event in New York City, reports ReadWriteWeb.
Despite rumors, MIT OpenCourseWare insists ‘no paywall’
Contrary to erroneous reports, MIT says it has no plans to implement a paywall for its free open courseware, ReadWriteWeb reports.