Partners in the contest include NBC Universal, the film schools at New York University and the University of Southern California, and the Directors Guild of America.

Called the Democracy Video Challenge, the contest encourages the submission of three-minute videos that define the concept of democracy.
Submissions will be accepted through January 31, and a jury will select [...]

As Government Computer News reports, the U.S Department of Defense has singled out open source in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2009 (H.R. 5658). The gist? The Defense Department sees open source as a way to cut costs and boost security, and it wants more of it.

The committee is concerned by the [...]

Accel Partnerse and Greylock Partners both announced Monday that Weiner is joining as “executive in residence.”

Jeff Weiner, executive vice president of Yahoo's network division

Weiner was executive vice president of Yahoo’s network division, overseeing many of the Internet company’s most important products.

According to a memo from Yahoo President Susan Decker, reported on TechCrunch, “On an interim [...]

The ad platform, to put it simply, helps advertisers build MySpace profiles for their brands, complete with friend lists, widgets, blog entries, and ads provided by the site’s HyperTargeting ad program. If they aren’t familiar with MySpace’s structure or with the CSS and XHTML code skills necessary to make those profiles extra-sparkly, they can opt [...]

This forecast is characterized by two different components: revenue from new OSS projects growing at 32 percent CAGR over the forecast period, and revenue associated with a single OSS project (OpenSolaris) that is based on a formerly proprietary software product with a substantial revenue stream but lower growth profile.
Revenue from standalone OSS is an important [...]

The comments board keeps group members updated on the latest activity.
Wiggio’s features are basically more simplified versions of what you would expect from a group collaboration site. Remember, that’s a good thing. In addition to all of the usual on-site activities (bulletin board, calendar, links), Wiggio offers features that bring collaboration out of the confines [...]

Jesse Berst, an analyst at GlobalSmartEnergy and founding editor Smart Grid News, said that telecommunications and energy firms will compete to reach consumers with energy-management services.

Verizon can remotely update its routers, which are equipped with three Wi-Fi channels and wired Ethernet ports. That means that the router can be a central control point for managing [...]

One of the things HP says it wants to offer with its portfolio of offerings–across the board in hardware, software and now services–is flexibility in meeting the customer’s demand. CIOs today are dealing with…big issues (like) needing to flip that spending ratio to less on maintenance and more on innovation…And there are choices on how [...]