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AS Profile Outspoken as ever, Stallman has also spent considerable time over the past 12 months supporting local efforts in Cuba to bring open source to the country's government. Richard Stallman reappears on the Agenda Setters list after a brief absence in... [12 Oct 2007]
Open season
AS Analysis Stallman has spent considerable time over the past 12 months supporting local efforts in Cuba to bring open source to the country's government - with the Cuban government announcing that it is to migrate thousands of its computers to open-source... [12 Oct 2007]
Tories broadside Blair over open source
News One of the latest governments to contemplate open source is Cuba. George Osborne, the shadow chancellor, has criticised the government over its apparent lack of support for open source software. Osborne said many of the world's multinational... [08 Mar 2007]
Cuba gripped by open source fever
News Cuba's customs service has already migrated to Linux, while the ministries of culture, higher education and communications are planning to do so, Rodriguez told the conference. The Cuban government is to migrate thousands of its computers to open... [19 Feb 2007]
Enemies of the internet named and shamed
News The full list of countries is: Belarus, Burma, China, Cuba, Egypt, Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Vietnam. A list of 13 countries that represent a threat to freedom of expression on the internet has... [08 Nov 2006]
Bush agrees web control pact with UN
News China, Cuba, South Africa and other nations have argued the US and other wealthier nations must share power - complaints that will now be taken to the new UN forum. The Bush administration and its critics at a United Nations summit in Tunis... [16 Nov 2005]
Cuba travel sites embargoed by US
News The US Treasury Department has blacklisted more than 60 Cuba-centric sites, many maintained by a travel company called Tour & Marketing International. Certain travel-oriented websites made it to the verboten list because they provide easy access to... [11 Jul 2005]
Simon Norbury
Q&A Favourite holiday destination: Cuba. Employer and official job title: City of Westminster - CSi Project Director and Head of ICT. What do most people call you? Simon (to my face! Who do you report to? [28 Jun 2005]
Show Time for Star
White Paper In Adeje, Tenerife, The Tropicana Tenerife was to be purpose built, a 4000m2 entertainment hall to stage the balletic extravaganza that was the Tropicana of Cuba ballet corps in a bid to entertain the 4m + island visitors it receives yearly. [17 Feb 2005]
The Weekly Round-Up: 30.01.04
Round-Up A message chasing an order for a box of Cuba's finest ordered from www.cigarsforanyoccasion.com? Britain is a happy place. Official. That's the verdict of Orange, which this week revealed the results of its Expressionist Photo Messaging poll. [30 Jan 2004]
Terrorism Spotlights Air-security Technology
White Paper Airport security has been an issue since 1961, when three American-registered commercial airlines were hijacked as hijackers attempted to reach Cuba. The four hijackings and subsequent bombings that hit the United States Tuesday (Sept.raise again... [14 Aug 2003]
Intel man pleads guilty to Taliban terror charges
News The plea agreement also sets out a $250,000 fine and requires Hawash to co-operate with the government in criminal prosecutions and military tribunals, including legal action against the suspects being held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. [07 Aug 2003]
The world wide zzzzzzz
Comment EDS and its partners will install and maintain voice, video and data services for 360,000 users on board ships, and at 300 bases throughout the US, Cuba, Guam, Iceland and Puerto Rico. It's interesting then that MSN's PR mandarins chose to begin... [13 Oct 2000]
EDS sets sail with $7bn US Navy contract
News EDS and its partners will install and maintain voice, video and data services for 360,000 users both onboard and at 300 bases throughout the US, Cuba, Guam, Iceland and Puerto Rico. The Navy will pay $4.1bn over five years for a department-wide... [09 Oct 2000]
Lax US encryption export laws will benefit criminals warns Reno
News Under the new proposals, companies will have to apply for a license to export encryption products and the export to seven countries - Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Sudan and Syria - will be banned. [17 Sep 1999]
