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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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