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Google is partnering with San Francisco to provide the service to homeless individuals and to shelters and agencies so they can distribute the numbers to their clients. The announcement was made at a Project Homeless Connect event at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium Wednesday. A homeless person will be able to call in for his or her messages from any phone. The move by the city and the company would allow someone to be able to fill out a job application, which asks for a call back number. It will allow clinics to share test results. Mayor Gavin Newsom and Google said they want to empower people. "How do you communicate as a homeless individual? " Newsom asked. "How do you expect your life to turn around if you can't even get information or if someone can't even get in touch with you?" "It just seems exactly like any other voice mail," said Craig Walker, senior project manager of Google. "There's no stigma attached to it that 'hey this ...

Ubuntu has just relased a new Flavour for Mobile Devices or may say mobile internet devices. for sure I will try this Ubuntu Flavour on my EEE PC this Weekend Ubuntu Mobile Introducing Ubuntu Mobile - full Internet, no compromise Ubuntu Mobile is an Ubuntu edition that targets an exciting new class of computers called Mobile Internet Devices. Ubuntu Mobile, based on the world's most popular Linux distribution, and MID hardware from OEMs and ODMs, are redefining what can be done in mobile computing. Ubuntu Mobile, a fully open source project, gives full Internet, with no compromise. Custom options may include licensed codecs and popular third-party applications. Full Web 2.0/AJAX fidelity, with custom options of Adobe Flash®, Java, and more Outstanding media playback so you can enjoy videos, music and photos with superior quality and easy navigation A suite of applications that work seamlessly to meet every need of a digital parent, student or anyone who is on-the-go Facebook®,...

Powerline networking specialist Devolo will next month demo an Ethernet-over-the-mains prototype capable of delivering up to 400Mb/s bandwidth. Devolo's keeping mum about the details until it shows the kit off at the CeBIT show in Hannover. We suspect the unit essentially comprises two separate 200Mb/s HomePlug AV that sit between the mains power cables and a Gigabit Ethernet port. I see that Power Line Networks can break many barriers and works as an excellent carier for last mile connection even more affordable than WiMax, and we all can imagine the impact on Development World and Breaking the digital divide. Original Post h3r3

Ubuntu has a program called 5 A Day, which aims to have each one of us covers 5 bugs per day, only 5 bugs. You can cover these bugs in many ways : If you're a developer, you can help out reviewing patches and getting them uploaded. If you want to just confirm new bugs, you can do that. If you've experience with a certain package and want to triage bugs you can do that and forward them upstream if necessary. If you know your way around Ubuntu quite well, you can help assign bugs to the right package. the Complete thingy on Ubuntu Site link is h3r3

The International Open Source Network (IOSN) ASEAN+3 and InWEnt Capacity Building International, Germany in collaboration with the The State Ministry for Research and Technology (RISTEK), Republic of Indonesia are inviting both government and non-government organizations (NGOs), IT small-to-medium enterprises/businesses (SMEs/SMBs), developers, experts, trainers and users of Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) disaster management information systems to a Training of Trainers (ToT) for FOSS Geographic Information Systems (GIS) with Sahana. The training will be held at the PDII-LIPI in Jakarta, Indonesia from March 24 to 28, 2008. This activity is in response to the great demand and interest for a follow-up training as a result of the successful conduct of an earlier ToT on FOSS GIS for Disaster Management held last October 2007 in PDII-LIPI in Jakarta, Indonesia. InWEnt-IOSN Training on Free/Open Source Software-based Geographic Information Systems with Sahana Compo...

What's new in this release: - Proper handling of OpenGL/Direct3D windows with menu bars. - Stubs for all the d3dx9_xx dlls. - Several graphics optimizations. - Many installer fixes. - Improved MIME message support. - Lots of bug fixes. Reference Link is h3r3

In General These features are showcased for your attention. Please test them and report any bugs you find. If you want to see what the developers have cooking for the next alpha release, take a look through the Hardy blueprints page: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/hardy Upgrading from Ubuntu 7.10 To upgrade from Ubuntu 7.10, run "update-manager -d" using the update-manager package from Gutsy. Xorg 7.3 The latest Xorg is available in Hardy, Xorg 7.3, with an emphasis on better autoconfiguration with a minimal configuration file. Linux kernel 2.6.24 Alpha 5 includes the 2.6.24-8.14 (2.6.24.2-based) kernel. This brings in significant enhancements and fixes that have been merged in the last few months into the mainline kernel. Among these is the introduction of dynticks support for amd64, bringing the same power savings already available on 32-bit systems to 64-bit laptops and desktops. PulseAudio Alpha 5 includes PulseAudio enabled by default. Some non-GNOME ...