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Sixty finalists for the 16th Annual Flashforward Film Festival have been announced. Chosen from designers, animators, directors and artists in 15 categories, final awards will be announced at the festival, which takes place in Austin, TX on September 13 during the Flashforward2006 event. The public is encouraged to select one of the finalists as their choice to be the recipient of the prestigious People's Choice award, giving to the one entry that receives the most votes from viewers. To vote, anyone can enter at:  http://www.flashforwardconference.com/peoples_choice About the Finalists Flash web sties nominated by the public are carefully reviewed by a panel of experts from mulitple fields. Four finalists are selected in each of fifteen categories. These finalists represent ... (more)

SYS-CON i-Technology Podcast August 10, 2005

Yahoo will pay $1 billion to buy China’s second-largest Internet auctioneer, Alibaba.com Novell announced Open SusE at Linuxworld Expo in San Francisco. When completed this fall, it will carry version number 10.0. Winners of the 2005 LinuxWorld Conference awards have been announced. Best of show went to LTSP PalmSource has joined MontaVista's Mobilinux Open Framework partner program... (more)

SYS-CON i-Technology Podcast August 16, 2005

Bruce Perens told SYS-CON-TV, “Any significant open source program is infringing on tens or hundreds of software patents. These are things that should have never been granted. No one ever voted for them. They were the result of a court decision. And, we have to fix the law.” The full interview can be found at sys-con.tv Is the party over for Microsoft’s .NET language C#? ... (more)

SYS-CON i-Technology Podcast August 17, 2005

Symantec has identified six different strains of the Zotob virus, which has been propogating rapidly throughout the media world. BEA Systems has announced what it calls significant milestones in the company’s open-source efforts, including code release milestones for Apache Beehive, Apache XMLBeans and the Eclipse Web Tools Platform (WTP). Whizlabs Software has launched the Sun Certi... (more)

SYS-CON i-Technology Podcast August 18, 2005

Google has will make more than 14 million new shares publicly available. At current prices, the shares would be worth about $4 billion. John Dvorak said that Google is the best in the business at what it does, and has very deep pockets that will enable the company to maintain market leadership for the forseeable future. HP is moving aggressively forward with its Linux strategy. Aduva CEO ... (more)