Research Looks at How Open Source Software Gets Written

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Computer software systems are now among the most complex, expensive artifacts ever created by humans, and some of the most sophisticated are being built by teams of volunteers as "open source" projects, where any programmer can read the code and suggest changes.


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Terra gets Olympic Internet rights

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(AP) -- Internet company Terra says it has been awarded Internet and mobile rights to transmit the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games in Latin America.

2 teens attacked in town mocked in YouTube videos

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(AP) -- Two teenagers who drove to Oniontown after a series of YouTube videos portrayed the hamlet as a run-down, backwoods dump were pelted with rocks by an angry group of young residents, authorities said.

Making sure the internet delivers

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European researchers have developed affordable test suites that businesses can use to check whether their software will work with the next-generation internet.

Internet addressing agency loses its own addresses

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(AP) -- This doesn't sound good: The nonprofit agency in charge of the Internet's addresses recently lost track of its own.

Court orders YouTube to give Viacom video logs

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(AP) -- Dismissing privacy concerns, a federal judge overseeing a $1 billion copyright-infringement lawsuit against YouTube has ordered the popular online video-sharing service to disclose who watches which ...
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