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Volume 15, Number 3		March, 2009

Contents: News: Virus renders Church of England's communications spokesman incommunicado, CrossWire Bible Society renames GnomeSword. Recalls Coming Events New or Changed Entries in the Church Related Software Index Legal Stuff: Mine! All Mine!!!
News:
"Freedom of Speech" Department In the past, I have tempted to harp on security issues in these pages. Some of you may even have considered me a bit paranoid, since computer security isn't specifically related to ministry, but is, rather, just part of the cost we pay for living in the information age. However, I notice that a number of media outlets picked up the story when the Anglican Bishop of Manchester, who is also the Church of England's communications spokesman, was affected by a virus which blocked a "significant" number of the emails which he wrote over the previous ten months from being sent, and also blocked messages posted through the church web site. While engineers are working to disinfect the system, it's likely that the church will never know just how many emails were lost. So run that virus scan, just in case. (Qureshi, Yakub, "Bishop silenced by computer virus." Manchester Evening News. March 16, 2009. Published by M.E.N. media.)
"A Rose by Any Other Name" Department With the latest release, the Bible software formerly known as GnomeSword now runs under Windows as well as Linux. Therefore, the CrossWire Bible Society has renamed the software to Xiphos. (CrossWire Bible Society: www.crosswire.org Xiphos: xiphos.org.)
Recalls:

AT&T	Quickfire GTX75	Overheating
LG	830 Spyder	Poor/dropped connections to 911
Nokia	5800 XpressMusic NAM	Unable to connect to 3G networks, speaker failure
RIM	Blackberry Bold	Overheating, software issues
Coming Events:
April 23-24, 2009. MinistryTECH. Colorado Springs, CO, USA. ministrytech.org April 26, 2009. Internet Evangelism Day. www.InternetEvangelismDay.com June 17-20, 2009. 2009 ChurchMedia Convention. Orlando, FL, USA. www.churchmedia.net/2009 October 2, 2009. Beyond Online Sermons: podcast training event. Evengelical Alliance, London, England. www.facingthechallenge.org/training.php. Hosted by Facing the Challenge and Evangelical Alliance. Accordance training seminars: www.accordancebible.com/about/news/shows.php ACS training events: www.acstechnologies.com/training/ BibleWorks Training Workshop Schedule: www.bibleworks.com/training/ Camp Logos schedule: www.logos.com/camp/dates CDM+ training schedule: www.cdmplus.com/training Data Developments training dates: www.data-developments.co.uk/DDTRAINING.htm DonorWorks training schedule: www.donorworks.com/whatsnew/schedule.html Logos Management Software training seminars: www.logoslbe.com/layout3.cfm?ID=228 Midnight Oil Productions seminar schedule: www.midnightoilproductions.com/seminar PowerChurch training seminars: www.powerchurch.com/training/seminar_list.php RDS Advantage training calendar: www.rdsadvantage.com/cgi-bin/cal/calendar.pl Servant PC Resources workshops and seminars: newsite.servantpc.com/training_seminars.htm Shepherd's Staff training schedule: www.shepherdsstaff.org/staff/training.asp Specialty Software training seminar schedule: www.specialtysoftware.com/Seminar.htm
New or Changed Entries in the Church Related Software Index:
Source	Product	Operating System
CrossWire Bible Society	BibleTime	Linux
CrossWire Bible Society	JSword	Multiple (Java based)
CrossWire Bible Society	MacSword	Macintosh
CrossWire Bible Society	The Sword Project for Windows	Windows
CrossWire Bible Society	Xiphos	Linux, Windows
KIYUT	Alkitab	Linux, Macintosh, Windows
Sowing Circle	Blue Letter Bible	Multiple (web-based)
Legal Stuff:
CAMsoc Update is a newsletter on computing in general, and Christian computing specifically. The contents are copyright © 2009 by Greg Slade and contributors, and may not be reprinted nor copied in any form without prior written permission from the author. For reprint permission, please contact the editor.

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CAMsoc Update is a newsletter on computing in general, and Christian computing specifically. The contents are copyrighted by Greg Slade, and may not be reprinted or copied in any form without prior written permission from the author. Software and hardware developers, book publishers, etc., may send news releases for CAMsoc Update to the address listed on the contact page.

CAMsoc Update was originally published as a stand-alone newsletter for the Computer Aided Ministry Society of Canada from 1988 to 1990. From 1990 to 1992, CAMsoc Update was an occasional page on Canadian Christian computing news in Church Bytes. The items in Church Bytes did not carry Volume or Issue numbers, but I have assigned them to "Volume 2" and numbered them in the order that they appeared.

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