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At the end of October 2010 e-bUW made available first title digitized in frame of the “NUKAT – autostrada informacji cyfrowej” project. According to e-bUW it is “Nowy Pamiętnik Warszawski: [dziennik historyczny, polityczny, tudzież nauk i umiejętności]”, periodical published in Prussian Warsaw by Franciszek Ksawery Dmochowski.

One of the main aims of the ACCESS IT project is to support digitisation of cultural heritage and development of digital libraries in small memory institutions in three target countries covered by this project. In the second half of October these countries held a series of conferences.

Internet radios acting through a system EMITER, that run in the PIONIER network, are getting more and more popular. Currently, it transmits a signal of more than 50 radio stations, focusing an average of 22,000 recipients at the same time.

Official website of the City of Poznan – Multimedia City Guide (MIM) won in the ranking of municipal, marshals and provincial offices websites by “IT in government” – monthly magazine for IT professionals and managers of public sector. It is worth noting that the author of the award-winning technical side of the portal is the Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center.

Scientix is a new portal launched by the European Comission destined to teachers, researchers,...

QualiPSo EU Project announces the release of the new QualiPSo Factory 0.6. Design based on the SCA (Service Component Architecture) approach, it is, a modular, flexible and customizable open source forge thought for the management and development at industrial level of the future open source projects and solutions. The user interface is based on GWT and OpenParts framework.

Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center began the supply of equipment for the PLATON project. As a result of two tenders, the infrastructure for Campus services and Archiving Services has been chosen.

The most popular Polish instant messenger Gadu-Gadu is 10 years old. GG currently boasts of more than 10 million loyal community. On the occasion of the anniversary a special web service was launched.

The European Commission has awarded the Novel Explorations Pushing Robust e-VLBI Services project (NEXPReS) funds to advance data transfer, buffering, storage and distributed computing technologies. The improvements are expected to significantly enhance electronic Very Long Baseline Interferometry (e-VLBI) services offered by the European VLBI Network (EVN) to the entire radio astronomy community and, it is hoped, to benefit science research infrastructure across fields. This work is part of the EVN’s “e-EVN Programme” of e-VLBI developments, officially recognised as a SKA Pathfinder Technology for its anticipated impact on the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), as well as the recently inaugurated LOw Frequency Array (LOFAR).

The Internet has been nominated for this Year’s Nobel Peace Prize. This candidacy raises much controversy. In fact it’s impersonal and no one knows who – as a possible winner – would receive this prestigious award.

The pilot version of the Jagiellonian Digital Library was inaugurated. Virtual Library was created, in order to collect and share digitized copies of the network’s most valuable but also threatened collections of the Jagiellonian Library and the Jagiellonian University. The project is implemented through a system of dLibra, drawn up by the Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center.

“LIFE IN A DAY” is the motto of an unusual competition announced by YouTube. To take part in this event, simply document one day in a life of the earth. Hottest peace of work will be merged into an experimental documentary a produced by famous director – Ridley Scott.