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Archive for 'france'

French military's open-source collaboration

3 February 2010 4 , ,

bird-sqNow this is how open source is meant to work. In January 2007, the French defence ministry's Direction Générale de l'Armement began work (in association with BT) on a project called Milimail, to enhance Firefox's open-source cousin, the Thunderbird email client for military purposes. It's now known as Trustedbird - and lists among its additional [...] read on »

Le Twitter is front-page news

7 August 2008 2 , ,

French left-of-centre newspaper Libération dedicated Monday's entire front page to 'le Twitter', declaring it to be 'politicians' latest weapon'. With only 6,000 users in France, compared to two million on Facebook, it's still a relatively new phenomenon - and the lead story gives a decent grounding for those who haven't come across it. Obama gets [...] read on »

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