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Latest Open Source Linux Phone on Sale July 4 The latest attempt at an open source, Linux-based phone goes on sale July 4. Offered by OpenMoko, will it succeed where so many others have failed? We'll find out for sure on the Fourth. Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Latest Open Source Linux Phone on Sale July 4 The latest attempt at an open source, Linux-based phone goes on sale July 4. Offered by OpenMoko, will it succeed where so many others have failed? We'll find out for sure on the Fourth. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Update: Nokia buys rest of Symbian, will make code open source Nokia on Tuesday announced it plans to acquire all of Symbian, which develops an operating system for mobile phones. The Finnish phone giant currently owns about 48 percent and will pay ¬264 million ($410 million) for the rest. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Mobile computing now an open source driver Mobile computing has become a dominant focus in the open source arena, a theme on prominent display at a major open source technology convention last week.The O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) in Portland, Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Open source entering the mobile computing space Open-source strategies are gathering steam in the mobile computing realm with companies like Wake3 and Funambol leveraging open source to bring iPhone-style browsing and e-mail to devices.During a meeting of the Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Sears sells latest sub-$200 Linux desktop PC For the second time since October, a sub-$200, fully equipped Linux desktop PC is available for sale to U.S. consumers.Starting Thursday, Sears.com is selling a Mirus Innovations desktop machine that runs Linux Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Symbian: R&D wants motivated open sourcing Research and development efficiency, and not competitive concerns about the Google Android or Linux Mobile (LiMo) initiatives, was a chief driver in the decision to make the Symbian mobile platform open source, a Symbian official said Monday afternoon. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Red Hat: Open source benefits from U.S. unpopularity The unpopularity of the United States has IT users in foreign countries happy to use open-source software, Red Hat President/CEO Jim Whitehurst said at the InfoWorld Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco on Tuesday. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Survey: Open source is entering the enterprise mainstream Open-source solutions used to be adopted quietly by company boffins who snuck in an Apache Web server or an open-source development tool suite under the philosophy "It's easier to get forgiveness than permission" (not to mention "It's easier to do it with open-source Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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'PatentGate' one year later: MS against open-source world It was just over a year ago that Microsoft dropped a bombshell of a claim: users of Linux and open source software were unwittingly violating as many as 235 Microsoft software patents."This is not a case of some Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Linux kernel builders hail open source drivers The Linux kernel development community is emphasizing the need for open source device drivers, in a statement released Monday.While the vast majority of device drivers have open source, there are a few holdouts, Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Update: Microsoft makes boldest move yet embracing open source In a major turnaround for Microsoft, the company Thursday promised "greater transparency" in its development and business practices, outlining a new strategy to provide more access to APIs and previously proprietary protocols for some of its major software products, i Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Red Hat open-sources security framework Red Hat has open-sourced its identity-management and security system to promote its assertion that open-source software provides the most secure infrastructure.The Linux vendor said Wednesday it has released the Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Some open sourcers keeping open mind about Microsoft pledges Microsoft made a mountainous down payment on its high-profile pledge Thursday to improve interoperability and warm up its relationship with the open source community, releasing some 30,000 pages of documentation for Windows client and server protocols. After digestin Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft cited for open efforts, eyes Eclipse Microsoft received plaudits and criticism for its openness efforts at the MIX08 event Thursday with a Microsoft official also citing an overture toward the Eclipse Foundation for open-source tooling.During a pan Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Sun cites open source tribulations Sun Microsystems officials on Monday acknowledged issues the company has had to deal with in offering products such as the OpenSolaris OS and Java via an open source business model.Morning events at the Communit Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Google takes down open source project after DMCA complaint Google has removed an open source project that enables the proprietary CoreAVC high-definition video decoder to run in Linux following a complaint from the codec's developer -- but the project could soon return. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Open Source Phone Goes Mass-Market LinuxDevices: "Openmoko has begun shipping its Linux-based, open source Neo Freerunner phone to five newly announced distributors, in Germany, France, and India, says the company..." Home > Rss Directory > Technology > LinuxToday |
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Open-source ERP grows up Can open-source software find a home in mission-critical systems? Based on momentum in the open-source ERP (enterprise resource planning ) market, it's starting to look that way, particularly for IT leaders at midmarket and smaller enterprises. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft open policy faces scrutiny Brad Smith, Microsoft's general counsel, decided it was time to make peace.That's one reason, according to Horacio Gutierrez, Microsoft's deputy general counsel and vice president of intellectual property and li Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |