The Best of News Feeds #16

Here’s a collection of some of my favourite stories that passed via my newsreader over the past few weeks:

Finally a buyer for Sun!

AustralianIT: Oracle agrees to buy Sun

ORACLE has agreed to buy Sun Microsystems for about $US7.4 billion in cash, stepping in after IBM’s talks to buy the server maker collapsed…

Now… this has got to hurt Microsoft!

The Ubuntu crew: AMTRON delivers 28,000 Ubuntu-based PCs to students in Assam

India-based government information and communication technologies (ICT) provider The Assam Electronics Development Corporation (AMTRON) needed to provide every Assam student who achieved 60 per cent or higher in their school leaving exams with a free PC. AMTRON needed to comply with strict budgets to deliver reliable, easy-to-use PCs to thousands of students. It finally decided on a range of PC hardware running Ubuntu Desktop Edition…

Which blog is still at #1 in PNG after six months?

Tavurvur: PNG Online Media Statistics – Newspapers vs Blogs

Blogs – Competing with Newspapers for Global ReadershipFor centuries now there’s been a battle between newspapers and blogs – well, maybe for the past five years, but therein lies exactly my point. It’s taken less than a decade for blogs to start offering mainstream newspapers serious competition on the internet, and in developed countries such as South Korea and Finland where internet saturation rates are close to 100% – blogging is big business…

Some really hot tech articles here!

Jeffrey Way: Our First Anniversary!

Time really does fly by. Exactly one year ago today, our CEO, Collis Ta’eed, launched Nettuts+. 322 postings later, we have the honor of writing for 34,000+ RSS subscribers. Though I wasn’t here at the very beginning, I do remember reading that first “Launch” posting – completely oblivious to the possibility that I might be running the site in just a few months time. To celebrate, let’s browse through some of the notable postings/events from this last year…

Here’s a photo that could very well win an award!!

Joeri: Port Moresby Weekend

Just to keep my friends in Europe jealous: just an impression of the weekend…

In the meantime we continue to salivate in PNG

Coconut Wireless: First campus WiMAX network launched in Taiwan

Alcatel-Lucent and Tatung University have announced the launch of Taiwan’s first WiMAX 16e campus network. The project will foster research and innovation in wireless broadband technologies. Such deployments are crucial to rolling out commercial services…