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Open Source In Mobile Phones: Challenges For Software Vendors
open source is the emerging development methodology for mobile phones, reducing operational costs, harnessing innovation and shortening time to market for new devices and services.
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Canonical Hires Ubuntu Makeover Team - Silicon.com
canonical, the leading backer of the ubuntu version of linux, is hiring a team to help make open-source software on the desktop more appealing and easier to use. the company plans to sign up designers and specialists in user experience and ...
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The Open Road - Cnet News
few will have noticed, but microsoft's jim kellerman just announced that he and a microsoft colleague "been cleared to contribute patches again" to apache, and specifically to the hadoop project. this is great news for microsoft, and i think for open ...
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Microsoft Exec Touts Mixed Source Ventures
microsoft has been making moves on the licensing front and accommodations with open source, such as its controversial 2006 agreement with novell pertaining to suse linux.
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This Week In Open Source: Openoffice.org 3, Firefox 3.1 B1
lots of new open source software was released this week, including a major new version of openoffice.org, the first firefox 3.1 beta, and the third thunderbird 3.0 alpha. ars looks back at the past week and shares the highlights. read more...
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Intel Snaps Up Mobile Linux Developers - Silicon.com
intel has acquired openedhand, a london-based company which specialises in mobile linux development and services. openedhand will focus on participating in the moblin software platform community, which is developing a linux software stack for intel's ...
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Usaid Launches Open Source Development 2.0 Challenge - Forbes
washington, oct. 14 /prnewswire-usnewswire/ -- the u.s. agency for international development (usaid) launched the 2008 usaid development 2.0 challenge, the agency's first open source challenge to spur innovation from new actors, on monday. the ...
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Indian Political Party Turns To Foss
bharatiya janata party (bjp) is india's largest political party, with around 20 million ordinary members and about 4 million active members. in june, bjp announced its goal to become one of the most high-tech political parties in the next two years, and free and open source software (foss) will play an essential role in this project.
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Xen Delivers On Open Source Enlightenment
it's not surprising that xen would chose a word synonymous with enlightenment for its open source portability standard. xen describes project kensho as providing a powerful, multi-hypervisor toolkit designed to leverage the distributed management task force (dmtf) open virtualization format (ovf) to enable isvs and enterprises to more easily create hypervisor -independent, portable enterprise ...
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Nanotech: The Circuits Blog - Cnet News
there's life beyond wimax. at the intel developer forum in taipei intel is looking beyond that wireless technology to other communications methods for its upcoming moorestown smartphone platform. intel senior vice president anand chandrasekher ...
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Dell And Platform Computing Collaborate On Hpc Management Software ... - Forbes
platform ocs - dell edition an out-of-box open source solution to build hpc environments toronto, oct. 14 /prnewswire/ -- platform computing, the global leader in high performance computing (hpc) management software, announces the release of platform ...
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Open Source Licence Violations Manual Published
dutch software engineer armijn hemel has just published a manual on how to detect violations of open source software.
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The Untapped Open Source Online Gaming Opportunity
open source software is often an unsung hero in the online gaming universe. game engines are complex applications with core functionalities provided by numerous modules. these include a rendering engine for 2-d or 3-d graphics and a physics engine or collision detection and response calculator.
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Progress Announces Availability Of Fuse(tm) Esb 4.0 - Msn Moneycentral
progress software corporation prgs , a provider of leading application infrastructure software to develop, deploy, integrate and manage business applications, today released its fuse ™ esb 4.0, an enterprise version of apache servicemix 4.0, the ...
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Women On A Mission - Berkshire Eagle
melinda walton, right, president of the junior league of berkshire county, speaks with carol rodman during the league's 75th anniversary celebration event at the country club of pittsfield. when you scan the list of early presidents for the junior ...
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Chromium Build Now Has Rudimentary Greasemonkey Support [google Chrome]
a recent build of chromium, the open source project basis of google chrome, adds rudimentary greasemonkey user script support, reports the google operating system blog. you need to use a command line...
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Bringing Oss Into A Closed Source Organization?
piranhaa writes "at the major corporation i work for, there is currently a single person who decides what software to approve and disapprove within the organization. i've noticed that requests from users for open source windows programs get denied, nearly instantaneously, on a regular basis. anything from gimp, to firefox, even to vim don't make the cut due to the simple fact that they are open ...
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Ex-google, Yahoo, Facebook Employees Snub Recession, Launch Hadoop ... - New York Times
recession be damned, a group of top silicon valley engineers have come together to launch an interesting startup called cloudera . not yet launched, it intends to help other companies adopt a promising software platform called hadoop. hadoop is an ...
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Comp. Sci. Revolutionary To Talk Computing Freedom At U - Minnesota Daily
digital rights issues may not be first on the list of most college students’ concerns, but some would like to see more people asking about them — and richard stallman can give them a crash course on one viewpoint tuesday evening. stallman, who ...
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Tweaker Alert: Greasemonkey Coming To Chrome
a tool that lets people customize what web pages can do is coming to chrome, google's open-source browser.
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