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ZSL Unveils "PowerCube" DaaS in the U.S., Africa and India
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| ZSL, a leading ISV & Global Software
| Solutions and Services provider, today
| launched "PowerCube" DaaS (Desktop as a
| Service), an open source-based desktop
| collaborative solution with supporting ZSL
| consulting practice. Available today in the
| U.S., Africa, and India, "PowerCube" will
| help mid-market customers using proprietary
| platforms to migrate to the IBM Client for
| Smart Work on Ubuntu's operating system.
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http://www.prweb.com/releases/IBM_Client/Smart_Work/prweb3446714.htm
Los Angeles Architect Uses Second Life to Develop Multi-Million Dollar,
Mixed Used Shopping Mall Project in Egypt
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| What you're looking at above left is the
| construction site of the Cleopatra Water
| Courts project in Cairo, Egpyt, a shopping
| mall complex that'll likely cost tens of
| millions dollars to complete. What you're at
| looking above right is the architect's
| conceptual model that got his design for it
| approved -- not a real world model, not a
| watercolor painting, not even an AutoCAD
| file. Rather, it's a build created in Second
| Life, which Los Angeles-based architect
| David Denton (known in SL as DB Bailey),
| showed his client, an Egyptian tycoon who
| funded the project. On that score, this is
| almost certainly the most expensive,
| ambitious real world project using Second
| Life as a platform.
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http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2010/01/sl-architecture-in-egypt.html
Recent:
ICT: Tunisia to develop cooperation with Linux Institute
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| For his part, Mr. Lacey expressed LPIâs
| interest in strengthening partnership as well
| as his commitment to make better known the
| investment opportunities offered by Tunisia.
|
| It is worth noting that Linux Professional
| Institute (LPI) is specialized in free
| software and computer solutions and has
| subsidiaries in 20 industrialized countries.
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http://www.tunisiaonlinenews.com/?p=31141
Linux Fund to support Africa Open Source initiatives
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| The Linux Fund and the Free Software and Open
| Source Foundation of Africa (FOSSFA) have
| signed an agreement to promote free and open-
| source software in Africa.
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| Open-source software adoption is lopsided in
| Africa, where ISPs use it on the back-end,
| but it isn't used much on the desktop.
|
| "On the back-end, open source has succeeded.
| Most ISPs in Africa depend on open-source
| server software and management tools. At the
| desktop level, it has failed because the
| Linux desktop is still not quite as plug-and-
| play as it needs to be to facilitate uptake,"
| said Steve Song, telecommunications fellow at
| the Shuttleworth Foundation.
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http://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm?id=9DA2CBF1-1A64-67EA-E473C5094B84FCEB
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