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Cheat Sheet: Google Android

Cheat Sheet A coalition of tech companies called The LiMo Foundation has been working on getting a mobile Linux offering out there - and with some success. The robots are here to take over! Ha, ha. You can sit back down - this is about Android: Google's up-and...

Tags: android, mobile linux, google, mobile phone

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[12 Mar 2008]

Cheat Sheet: The $100 laptop

Cheat Sheet The OLPC foundation hopes to get this figure to less than the $100 mark by 2008. No, it's the $100 laptop. Basically some clever types are trying to build a load of laptops for poor children who can't afford to get on the internet.

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[29 May 2007]

Cheat Sheet: Open source licences

Cheat Sheet The Free Software Foundation (FSF), for instance, has its own criteria for what should be considered 'free software' - and it's not necessarily the same as open source. Indeed. Let me start by saying, if you happen to think that all open source...

Tags: open source

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[20 Nov 2006]

Cheat Sheet: Prince2

Cheat Sheet The foundation exam is a one-hour, multiple choice exam, while the practitioner test is a three-hour, essay-type exam. Has the diminutive popstar changed his name again? Funny. But no, it's got nothing to do with him.

Tags: prince 2, prince2, cheat sheet

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[07 Nov 2006]

Cheat Sheet: Podcasting

Cheat Sheet Yup - the Mozilla Foundation (the group behind the Firefox browser) recently announced it will be putting podcasting support in the next iteration of its Thunderbird email client. Podcasting, then. All sounds a bit A Space Odyssey to me.

Tags: podcast, podcasting, cheat sheet, ipod

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[17 Jun 2005]

Cheat Sheet: Creative Commons

Cheat Sheet Creative Commons credits software licences such as the Free Software Foundation's GNU General Public License as an inspiration though in practice they are quite different. Get on with it - what's Creative Commons?

Tags: lawrence lessig, creative commons

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[05 May 2005]

Cheat Sheet: Firefox

Cheat Sheet The Mozilla Foundation doesn't have the same huge coffers as rival Microsoft, either. Recently, the Mozilla Foundation called on open source's fans to help pay for a full-page ad in The New York Times to extol the virtues of the browser.

Tags: browser, firefox

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[25 Nov 2004]