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Business Week attributes an increased interest in Open Source software to the shrinking economy.
ReadWriteWeb cites a report conducted by Accenture that millenials (i.e. those born between ‘77 and ‘97) will ignore IT departments that don’t support their IT preferences and applications. That is to say, many emerging social apps like Facebook, Twitter, blogs, and wikis, [...]

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With the frenzy of the elections past, I’m gradually returning to normal life. Here are some things that have recently caught my attention.
Fuzzy Tolerance calls attention to a slew of recent open source software releases. Shiny new toys!
From the Google Geo Developers Blog comes word of a snazzy new KML Manual. (Must add this to [...]

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For the last 18 months, more and more of my work is getting done on the Ubuntu platform. And as a self-described geospatial propeller head, I’m always quite interested in using the Ubuntu platform for GIS and other geospatial applications. Just in the nick of time, Matt Perry has updated his Ubuntu GIS how-to for [...]

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