Cuba migrates to open source
The Cuban government is to migrate thousands of its computers to open source software, in a move that distances the communist nation from Microsoft, reports ZDNet.
Last week, at a technology conference, communications minister Ramiro Valdes gave a pro-open source opening keynote, while Richard Stallman, head of the Free Software Foundation, also told the conference that proprietary software is inherently insecure.
A Cuban academic, Hector Rodriguez, is supporting the migration to open source by heading up a development programme within one of the largest Cuban universities.
Internet sex addict sues IBM for $5m
A former IBM employee, sacked for visiting an Internet chat room "for a sexual experience during work", has sued the company for $5 million, reports The Register.
In his lawsuit, James Pacenza claims he visits chat rooms "to treat traumatic stress incurred in 1969 when he saw his best friend killed during an army patrol in Vietnam".
He says the stress turned him into "a sex addict and, with the development of the Internet, an Internet addict".
Focus on India at 3GSM
The mobile telecoms industry turned its focus on India at this year's 3GSM trade fair, reports CNET News.
This comes after years of talking about little else but China's huge market and potential third-generation licences.
Vodafone's $11 billion deal to buy a controlling stake in India's fourth-biggest mobile phone firm, Hutchison Essar, announced on the eve of fair, set the agenda as those participants who had not already done so woke up to India's potential.
Net giant supports OpenID scheme
AOL has joined Microsoft in supporting OpenID, giving the free identification scheme 63 million new users, reports BBC News.
OpenID is a decentralised identification system that lets individuals use a single password for any site that supports it.
In AOL's early implementation, people with AOL and AOL Instant Messenger accounts can use those details to login to other OpenID sites.
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