Open Source Security Report

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LinuxSecurity.com: SAN FRANCISCO - May 20, 2008 - CoverityT, Inc., the leader in improving software quality and security, today announced the availability of the Scan Report on Open Source Software 2008. The Coverity Scan site was developed with support from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security as part of the federal government's 'Open Source Hardening Project.' The report is based on 2 years of analysis of more than 55 million lines of code on a recurring basis from over 250 popular open source projects with Coverity PreventT, the industry-leading static source code analysis solution. This projects seems to be on the right track in improving open-source security. What do you think? Will this project make a big impact on code quality and security?

School District Transforms Classroom Learning with Wireless Technology

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May 23, 2008 Challenge A poetry class begins with a lesson on haiku. But instead of just writing words on paper, students add images, videos, and music to make their poems come alive. Next it is onto geometry, where instead of using a pencil and compass, students manipulate shapes visually on a computer screen, stretching triangles and watching how the angles change. In social studies, students create multimedia presentations complete with videos of life in foreign ...