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	Recent court ruling makes it more important than ever to understand the GPL When Alan Shimel reported on the recent court decision against Westinghouse Digital in the BusyBox suit, he talked of the GPL having teeth. Think about the teeth of a saw. Very useful, but requiring understanding and care. It's surprising how misunderstood the license is, especially given its popularity. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Hitachi Data Systems Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer Pinpoint root cause of network issues up to 90% faster. Automated Root Cause Analysis speeds remediation. FREE video and 30-day trial. hitachimonitoringcenter.com Download free 30-day trial In this Issue Linux desktop market share: Small no matter how you measure Top 5 Social Media Emotional Disorders Are You Ready For Some Football-related Tech Items? Enterprises clinging to IE 6 may hurt IE 9 launch A brighter future for Google Wave: A lesson for others iPod Touch upgrade is the real deal Even Bill and Ted Had To Grow Up, So Does Open Source Would 40% of us really pay for mobile health care services? WHITE PAPER: Sprint "Business-class" Service for the Global Customer Can global customers that are not part of the world's largest global companies get the "business-class" service they deserve? Find out in this white paper. Read More Linux desktop market share: Small no matter how you measure It doesn't give me any pleasure in saying this, but the evidence is overwhelming that Linux is not huge on the desktop. Saying it has maybe 1% of the desktop marketshare is probably not realistic, but not as far off the mark as we'd like. Read More Top 5 Social Media Emotional Disorders Sure, the rise of social networking has been good for a lot of people – in fact, social media can even promote good health. But lately I've been able to identify some new emotional and psychological conditions that can be tied directly to my usage of social media over the past few years. Read More WEBCAST: Akamai Technologies Increase Download Completion Rates Join IDC for this live Webcast as new research on Electronic Software Delivery is revealed. Find out how to effectively monitor and deliver small and large downloads to ensure end user success and satisfaction. And because it's live, you can ask the experts questions specific to your environment. Register Today. Are You Ready For Some Football-related Tech Items? Tonight marks the start of the NFL season, so of course we're receiving several technology-related stories, pitches, surveys and press releases from some of our favorite companies and groups. Read More Enterprises clinging to IE 6 may hurt IE 9 launch Every month, journalists following the browser battles between Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome -- including this one -- check in with Net Applications to see who's up and who's down in market share. But a closer look at the numbers from someone who's been covering browsers longer than I have shows potential trouble ahead of Microsoft's coming IE 9. Read More WHITE PAPER: Emerson Network Power Avoiding Trap Doors Associated with Purchasing a UPS System The UPS is the centerpiece of most power protection systems. This eBook identifies four important factors IT professionals should consider to optimize protection and minimize costs with their power backup system. Read Now A brighter future for Google Wave: A lesson for others Google Wave is dead, long live Google Wave? Shortly after the company announced that it was mothballing the Wave platform, the company is now pushing "Wave in a Box," as an open source second try for the dead platform. Read More iPod Touch upgrade is the real deal The latest iteration of the iPod Touch, which is supposed to start shipping this week, is arguably the biggest upgrade to the device since it first hit the market in September 2007. Read More Even Bill and Ted Had To Grow Up, So Does Open Source Matthew Aslett over on the 451 Chaos Theory blog responded to my post about Open Source 4.0 not ushering in a golden new age of open source. I said the whole open source 4.0 thing sounded like something out of the flower power 60's. Aslett responded that actually it was more like Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, party on dudes. Read More Would 40% of us really pay for mobile health care services? New research from PricewaterhouseCoopers paints a rosy picture for the future of health-care services delivered over mobile devices, and who would question such optimism given that virtually anything that's important to consumers is rapidly going mobile. After all, what's more important than health care? Nevertheless, I have a question (the one in the headline). Read More
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