Europe Approves $166 Million For Next-generation Web
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| The so-called "semantic" Internet, or a Web smart enough to sift through
| information for users rather than leaving them to click through pages on
| their own, received a boost this week when the executive branch of the
| European Union approved a significant chunk of funding for a related
| research project.
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| On Thursday, the European Commission said the German government will be
| allowed to distribute 120 million euros ($166 million) among companies,
| including SAP AG and Siemens AG, to kick-start research on the Theseus
| project.
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http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/djhighlights/200707201712DOWJONESDJONLINE000829.htm
This is a move that is intended to rival Google's.
EU Court Backs ISPs on User Privacy
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| The opinion comes only days after the Swedish Justice Department proposed
| that copyright, patent and trade-mark owners should be able to request a
| court to force ISPs to give out the identity of internet users who have
| infringed their rights.
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http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/jul2007/gb20070720_372166.htm?chan=globalbiz_europe+index+page_top+stories
Related:
EU report on FLOSS: "FLOSS saves money"
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070112025016466
European spend on open source software hits 22bn Euros
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| Rishab Ghosh, a senior researcher at the UN University in Maastricht,
| will tell the Open Ireland conference in Dublin that the spend in the
| US on free/libre or open source software (FLOSS) stands at 36bn
| Euros and accounts for 20pc of software spend in the US.
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http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/news.nv?storyid=single7850
The French Parliament switches to Ubuntu
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| The French Parliament looks to be the next big Ubuntu switcher according to
| reports. Recently the Parliament produced an official government report
| that recommended the use of free software over proprietary software. The
| switch to free software is expected to provide a substantial savings to the
| tax-payers according to the government study.
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http://fridge.ubuntu.com/node/814
Linux reaches the Italian Parliament
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| As reported by the Italian newspaper Repubblica on July 10th, 2007, a plan
| suggested by the left deputies Pietro Folena and Franco Grillini to migrate
| all the computers of the Parliament from Windows to Linux was approved by the
| Chamber.
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| The migration will affect about 3500 boxes of the Chamber, both desktops and
| servers, and each Deputy/Party may also ask to migrate his/its (private)
| computers to the Free System.
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http://3v1n0.tuxfamily.org/blog/linux-docs/italian-parliament-moves-to-linux/
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