Now Microsoft has stepped in to appease some of the education tech body’s grumbles by announcing a new Open Licensing Programme (OLP) for government that will launch at the start of next month.
It’s just too bad that so much time must be wasted along the way.
Microsoft will no doubt eventually be forced into offering interoperability [...]

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Twenty-two percent of the managers surveyed said they had found sensitive data on SharePoint sites.

Eighty-seven percent of IT managers cited content-sharing and employee collaboration service SharePoint as their top concern for leaking sensitive data, according to a survey schedule for release on Tuesday.

A spokesperson for Microsoft said: “Any enterprise software development project should be [...]

Users of Evernote's desktop applications will need to update to get the new file attachment feature.

To help sell the new feature, which is available to both free and paying premium members, Evernote is currently restricting the types of files free users are able to sync to images (including .INK), audio files, and PDFs. Premium users [...]

But if you’re an open-source application vendor, I suppose it’s still an open question how JumpBox will work with you to share revenue. In my conversations with the JumpBox founders, this potential conflict has come up, and I know the JumpBox team is working on it. How well it gets resolved may well determine how [...]

Motorola cuts compensation, benefits package
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Novell cancels its 2009 BrainShare conference
Also in this podcast: New York State is considering taxing digital downloads; Yahoo ups the ante on user privacy; and Motorola freezes salaries and cuts employee compensation.
EMI wades into music retail with Web store
Yahoo idles Jumpcut, steers video users to [...]

Want to grab entire photo albums off Flickr? Check out FlickrDown, a free Windows utility that does it for you.
See also: Downloadr, and Bulk Image Downloader.

The app requires at least version 2.0 of Microsoft’s .NET runtime, which you might already have installed if you’re a user of Paint.NET. Also worth noting is that the tool [...]

While this is great news, I’d like to develop even deeper relationships with our customers and work together more closely to develop solutions that serve real needs and solve real problems. This continues to be a top priority as we move into 2009 as truly collaborative partnerships are instrumental to delivering value to Red Hat [...]

Universal Music Group, the nation’s largest recording company, and YouTube are closing in on a final agreement to create a new premium music video Web site, according to sources close to the negotiations.

Universal’s YouTube channel is by far the largest on the video site. The label’s music videos have been viewed more than 3.5 billion times. Vevo and the joint venture with YouTube were born out of a year-long campaign by Doug Morris, Universal’s chairman and CEO, to build music

Makers, book publisher reach ‘bristlebots’ accord

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Check out Daniel Terdiman’s post on how a tiff over “Bristlebots” escalated into an online novella. Happily, the feuding factions have apparently reached an accord. And now we can return to the rest of today’s news. Listen now:

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Defense agencies list top 20 security controls

EU to investigate VoIP-tapping techniques