Submission + - Tech University Bans Notebooks and Smartphones (news.err.ee) 1
J-Georg writes: In Estonian Tallinn University of Technology all the electronic devices like notebooks, tablets and smartphones are now banned in lectures held by institute of public administration. The restriction, which according to the institute aims to reduce factors interfering with academic work, came as a surprise to most of the university-goers. Moreover — just a day before country's Ministry of Education announced a plan that by 2020 all textbooks and other literature would be turned into e-books and in eight years students are expected to start using computers and tablets to access study materials.
Submission + - Libyan Internet flatlined, 2 .ly name servers down (google.com)
dnsdude writes: "Libya has turned of the Internet, with the result being that two (out of 5) .ly name servers are now unreachable.
The .ly name servers are reached in round-robin fashion, so roughly 2 out of 5 queries around the world will timeout.
Hope you're enjoying your .ly domain names!"
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Submission + - Debian is the most important Linux (earthweb.com)
inkscapee writes: Without Debian we are nothing. Debian is the most influential and important Linux, and is unique for being the largest, oldest, 100% non-commercial community-driven distro. "...just under 63% of all distributions now being developed come ultimately from Debian. By comparison, 50 (15%) are based on Fedora or Red Hat, 28 (9%) on Slackware, and 12 (4%) on Gentoo."
Submission + - Estonian economist: abandon cash (uudised.err.ee)
J-Georg writes: Professor of macroeconomics at the University of Tartu, Raul Eamets proposed today during his TEDx talk that Estonia should stop using cash at all when adopting the Euro as the national currency. He also pointed out that abandoning cash would not be only important for the Estonian economy as a whole but also is a real challenge for both IT and banking sectors and would also improve Estonian image as an IT-tiger.
Submission + - Ebay Mulling Skype Sale (ft.com)
MaineCoasts writes: The Financial Times reports that Ebay's new CEO is evaluating a sale of Skype if new ways cannot be found for the fast-growing service to support its core e-commerce business. Ebay reported earlier this week that Skype had a 61 percent increase in first quarter revenue over the same quarter last year and now has 309 million users worldwide.
Comment It reports legitimate software as well (Score 1) 337
It reports RealVNC, TightVNC and eDonkey2000 as spyware, including Donkey's temporary files.
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