The shortlist for the Cloud Computing World Forum awards for 2011 have been announced. The awards “celebrate the best of the best in the global industry. Award winners and shortlisted companies receive a mark of quality, innovation and leadership.” They will be announced at th3 2rd annual cloud computing world forum event next wee on [...]
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Sourceforge 2008 Community Awards
Voting is already underway for the 2008 Sourceforge Community Awards which for the first time allowed nominations for projects that are not hosted at the website to become a true Open-Source award. If you look at the finalists you immediately notice the cream of the crop of Open-Source applications. If you take a look at [...]
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Disney Encrypting Screener DVDs to Prevent Piracy
Still having last years Oscar controversy in mind, where one judge handed out copies to a person he thought was another film buff. This person unfortunately decided to copy and spread the films on the internet.
The DVD screeners that Disney will send to the groups that vote on the awards will be encrypted and will only run on dvd players made by Cinea, who are specially designed to thwart copying the screeners.