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An open answer to Office: by Prasad Krishna — published Mar 18, 2010 — last modified Apr 02, 2011 01:38 PM — filed under: Openness
OpenOffice with its new features is giving Microsoft Word tough competition, says Deepa Kurup in this article published by The Hindu on March 14, 2010.
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Mozilla DevDay 2010, Bangalore: by Radha Rao — published Feb 24, 2010 — last modified Apr 05, 2011 04:12 AM — filed under: Openness
Mozilla, Mahiti & The Centre for Internet and Society are joining hands to organize an informal developer-oriented conference in Bangalore on Saturday February 27, 2010.
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Impaired Social Mobility: by Prasad Krishna — published Jan 22, 2010 — last modified Aug 18, 2011 05:07 AM — filed under: Openness, Digital Activism
Leading e-mail providers like Gmail and Yahoo Mail have introduced open protocols for copying e-mails offline through Microsoft Outlook or Mozilla Thunderbird but popular social networking websites like Facebook, Myspace, etc generally do not allow the user to backup their own data. Sunil Abraham through this article points out that if competition and technological development does not rectify the situation then the government needs to intervene for the sake of its citizens.
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Wiki's worth, on a different turf: by Sunil Abraham — published Jan 15, 2010 — last modified Oct 23, 2012 08:33 AM — filed under: Openness
An Indian duo–a programmer and a mathematician–have developed a tool to expose anonymous writers and cleanse Wikipedia of rogue editors
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Time Out Bengaluru - Software Patenting: by Pranesh Prakash — published Jan 11, 2010 — last modified Jan 16, 2013 06:39 AM — filed under: Openness, Software Patents, Access to Knowledge
An article by Akhila Seetharaman published as a precursor to the national public meeting on software patents held on 4th in Bangalore.
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Openness, Videos, Impressions: by Nishant Shah — published Dec 28, 2009 — last modified Sep 22, 2011 12:23 PM — filed under: Conference, Open Standards, Art, Workshop, Digital Access, FLOSS, Open Content, Archives, Openness, Open Innovation, Meeting, Open Access
The one day Open Video Summit organised by the Centre for Internet & Society, iCommons, Open Video Alliance, and Magic Lantern, to bring together a range of stakeholders to discuss the possibilities, potentials, mechanics and politics of Open Video. Nishant Shah, who participated in the conversations, was invited to summarise the impressions and ideas that ensued in the day.
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When the virtual world gets a room: by Prasad — published Dec 22, 2009 — last modified Apr 02, 2011 02:09 PM — filed under: Openness
Wikipedians have found a permanent abode, and the comfort of increasing numbers, at the office of the Centre for Internet and Society, a research and advocacy organisation.
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Watch what you read on that website: by Prasad — published Dec 21, 2009 — last modified Apr 02, 2011 02:10 PM — filed under: Openness
Google has decided to give newspapers better control over their content appearing on the search engine but netizens don’t seem too pleased about it, says an article by NT Balanarayan of DNA on December 9, 2009
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Mozilla Open Web Talks: by Radha Rao — published Dec 09, 2009 — last modified Apr 05, 2011 04:19 AM — filed under: Openness
Give a talk, or just listen - On December 16 in Bangalore, Mozilla and The Centre for Internet and Society are holding an evening of talks about the future of the open internet.
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Present, tense: Future classrooms: by Radha Rao — published Dec 08, 2009 — last modified Apr 02, 2011 02:11 PM — filed under: Openness
An article by Nishant Shah in the December issue of Teacher Plus - the magazine for the contemporary teacher.
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