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July 20: Its £60,000 prize money makes it Britain's most lucrative literary award, but the 13 writers in contention for the inaugural Dylan Thomas Prize - announced today - are all relative unknowns.
Sourced at Guardian Unlimited Books
Filed Under: [Books]
Posted on 28 Jul 2006 around 1pm
Over the past couple of years, the issue of Internet governance has become a hot topic. Currently, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is responsible for parceling out IP addresses and domain names.
Filed Under: [The Web]
Posted on 28 Jul 2006 around 1pm
Google's Summer of Code pays hundreds of students to work on open-source projects, hooking them up with big-name mentors. But a few of the kids are feeling the heat. Joanna Glasner reports from the O'Reilly Open Source Convention in Portland, Oregon.
Filed Under: [Technology • The Web]
Posted on 28 Jul 2006 around 1pm
Filed Under: [Books]
Posted on 28 Jul 2006 around 11am
The body that runs the .eu domain has suspended 74,000 names which it believes were acquired unfairly.
Sourced at BBC News | Technology
Filed Under: []
Posted on 26 Jul 2006 around 5pm
July 26: Irish archaeologists are celebrating after a bulldozer unearthed fragments of a psalter that may have lain in a bog for more than 1,000 years.
Sourced at Guardian Unlimited Books
Filed Under: [Publishing History]
Posted on 26 Jul 2006 around 2pm
Students increasingly own an expensive range of personal items from MP3 players to laptops, a survey suggests.
Sourced at BBC News | Technology
Filed Under: [Education • Technology]
Posted on 26 Jul 2006 around 12pm
Filed Under: [Education]
Posted on 21 Jul 2006 around 10am
