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    Talking Paper Seeks Cheap Printing to Be Viable 08 June, 2007 14:29:17

    Someday consumers may find themselves listening to paper to learn more about products, receive instructions or heed warnings. That's the hope of Swedish researchers studying ways to print loudspeakers and keyboards on paper.
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    German Government Moves Steady on Security 05 June, 2007 11:47:58

    For months, German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schauble has been lobbying intensively for tough security measures to fight terrorism and cybercrime. Now he's putting his words into action.
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    WORLD CUP - South African games pose big IT challenge 20 June, 2006 11:14:43

    Germany is putting on a good World Cup soccer tournament -- so good in fact that some networking experts wonder whether they'll be able to pull off a similar feat when the championship takes place in South Africa four years from now.
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    German IT agency to release open source security suite 03 May, 2006 09:06:38

    Germany's Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) will present several new open source-based desktop and security applications on Wednesday at a local Linux event.
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    WSIS - Some open-source boosters see missed chance 21 November, 2005 07:42:21

    Advocates of free software and open-source software were neither protesting nor dancing in the halls of the Kram conference and exhibition center at the Internet summit in Tunis. A few critics, including Richard Stallman, questioned why they even came.
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    WSIS - Annan: UN has no plans to 'take over' the Internet 08 November, 2005 07:37:16

    United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, seeking to defuse a feud over Internet governance ahead of a global summit next week, wrote in a newspaper column published Saturday that no proposals exist to create a U.N. agency to take over the Net.
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    Munich chooses two local Linux suppliers 18 April, 2005 08:50:37

    The City of Munich has selected two local German software companies to equip all 14,000 computers in its public administration with Linux and other open source office applications.
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    Euro supercomputing initiative welcomes users 11 November, 2004 08:05:48

    European researchers can now turn to a new supercomputing network for help in their scientific endeavors.
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    Munich agrees to Linux migration plan 18 June, 2004 08:36:53

    Local government officials in Munich approved Wednesday a plan for rolling out the Linux operating system and other open source applications in more than 14,000 city administration computers.
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    Study: Linux nears Windows XP usability 05 August, 2003 08:15:56

    Linux, once viewed as an OS (operating system) only computer geeks could appreciate, is today a much more user-friendly software that companies, public administrations and consumers can master almost as easily as Microsoft's Windows XP. That's the core finding of a study published last Friday by Relevantive AG, a Berlin-based company specializing in consulting companies on the usability of software and Web services.
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    Over 500 German Government Agencies Using Open Source 01 July, 2003 14:57:05

    One year after the German Federal Ministry of the Interior agreed to a partnership with IBM to supply open-source software on new computers to federal, state and local governments as well as other government agencies, more than 500 groups have signed up for the service.
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    Antivirus software powerless to stop data breach attacks, study finds 10 February, 2012 01:43:00

    Analysis of 300 incidents spots an elephant in the room
    Large numbers of data breaches are being initiated by targeted malware that antivirus software simply can't detect, an analysis of 300 real-world incidents from 2011 has suggested.
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    Valentine's Day Patch Tuesday: Microsoft to issue 9 patches, 4 critical 10 February, 2012 09:29:00

    Microsoft Thursday said that the second Patch Tuesday of 2012 will see nine security bulletins, four of which were deemed critical.
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    Security experts ask House for light a regulatory touch 10 February, 2012 01:39:00

    Cybersecurity experts on Wednesday warned members of a House subcommittee against racing to legislation that would establish an overly burdensome regulatory framework for safeguarding digital systems against attacks, instead urging a more limited approach that would clear away legal impediments such as the prohibitions against sharing critical threat information.
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    The six pillars of security operations 10 February, 2012 11:37:00

    Six key points that should be considered when creating and developing a SOC
    As mobilisation and bring-your-own-device (BYOD) becomes increasingly prevalent, business security has been propelled to the forefront of corporate strategy.
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    Google Wallet Security Concerns Raised 10 February, 2012 01:40:00

    Security firm Zvelo has discovered that the Google Wallet PIN can be cracked via an exhaustive numerical search.
    Google's new NFC system that purports to turn your phone into a credit card can be compromised using a brute-force attack -- and that raises questions about its security.
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