Interesting Article on NewsForge:
I was told recently that Air Force bases in the San Antonio, Texas, area are blocking one or more of our sister OSTG sites, like SourceForge.net, Slashdot.org, or Freshmeat.net. After finding reports via Google of commercial mail services and liberal news sites being blocked by various components of the Department of Defense, I decided to go straight to the horse’s mouth for the story. Here’s what I learned.
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The 2006 Mass Technology Leadership Awards program spotlights the companies, the people, and the technologies that exemplify the best in the Massachusetts technology community. The program builds upon the traditions of both the Massachusetts Software Council and NEBATA, of recognizing outstanding achievement in innovative development and application of information technology.
The deadline is May 24, so nominate now!
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MI6: Game Marketing Conference scheduled June 27-28, 2006 in San Francisco, California.
The conference includes special sessions specifically for Game Developers to learn about marketing to publishers! MI6 is the premier conference for marketing, promotion and
design professionals in the gaming and interactive media.
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The computer software industry is making modest progress in its efforts to encourage computer users in China, Russia and other developing economies to pay for their software rather than copying it illegally, according to a report published Tuesday.
The report, published by the Business Software Alliance, a trade group, said the rate of pirated software in those two countries fell four percentage points last year to 86 percent in China and to 83 percent in Russia.
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