russia

I've written before about the increasing uptake of, and innovation around, free software in Russia. Here's another fascinating experiment, involving the Vladivostok State University of Economics and Services, which is giving students netbooks running the Mandriva distro...

Open...: "Recently, Russia announced that it was pushing Microsoft out of its schools in favour of open source.

Now, it's going even further by joining with Cuba to write free software that can be used instead of Microsoft's products in other areas:"

Recently, Russia announced that it was pushing Microsoft out of its schools in favour of open source. Now, it's going even further by joining with Cuba to write free software that can be used instead of Microsoft's products in other areas...

IT security and control firm Sophos has released the results of its research into the latest spam trends, showing what they say are the top twelve spam-relaying countries for the third quarter of 2008.

Russia has now made it official policy that all schools should use free software. If they want to use proprietary software, they can't use government funds to buy it.

It would be nice to see the United States government put similar restrictions on schools in the USA!!!

Red Devil's Blog: "WHAT does Microsoft do when someone says: No, sorry, we do not want to use your software any more.

If that someone is a small business operating in an increasingly cut-throat world, a great deal of pressure can be brought to bear on them to fall into line."

IT budgets are being slashed in the US and Europe as bullish growth in China, India and Russia leaves the Western tech industry in the shade.

European leaders today balked at making any firm pledges to Ukraine on eventually joining the EU, wary of antagonising a belligerent Russia in the midst of the Georgia crisis.

A British student who was injured after falling off a horse in a remote part of Russia was rescued yesterday after sending a distress signal which was picked up 3,700 miles away by an RAF base in Scotland.

The US is to give Georgia $1bn in aid to help it rebuild after last month's war with Russia over its separatist enclaves.