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Build It. Share It. Profit. Can Open Source Hardware Work? Check this out," Massimo Banzi says. The burly, bearded engineer wanders over to inspect a chipmaking robot—a "pick and place" machine the size of a pizza oven. It hums with activity, grabbing teensy electronic parts and stabbing them into position on a circuit board like a hyperactive Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Build It. Share It. Profit. Can Open Source Hardware Work? Check this out," Massimo Banzi says. The burly, bearded engineer wanders over to inspect a chipmaking robot—a "pick and place" machine the size of a pizza oven. It hums with activity, grabbing teensy electronic parts and stabbing them into position on a circuit board like a hyperactive Home > Rss Directory > Business > Wired News |
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Build It. Share It. Profit. Can Open Source Hardware Work? Check this out," Massimo Banzi says. The burly, bearded engineer wanders over to inspect a chipmaking robot—a "pick and place" machine the size of a pizza oven. It hums with activity, grabbing teensy electronic parts and stabbing them into position on a circuit board like a hyperactive Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Microsoft revising its attitude toward open source When Microsoft completed its acquisition of San Francisco-based startup Powerset in July, it acquired more than just search-engine technology. In the HBase component of Powerset's product, Microsoft also acquired open-source code that is actively being redistributed b Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Open source: How e-voting should be done "It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything." -- Joseph StalinIn the past eight years, elections in th Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Open source can still win in a down economy Economics are on the side of open source--the best value for money means enterprises can continue to grow during the economic downturn. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > CNET |
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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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By Open Sourcing Symbian, Nokia Kicks Off the Mobile Age The mobile software age is here. Symbian co-founder Nokia announced Monday night that it is buying the 52 percent of the software maker that it doesn’t already own and releasing its mobile operating system under an open source license. With that move, Symbian joins two other Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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By Open Sourcing Symbian, Nokia Kicks Off the Mobile Age The mobile software age is here. Symbian co-founder Nokia announced Monday night that it is buying the 52 percent of the software maker that it doesn’t already own and releasing its mobile operating system under an open source license. With that move, Symbian joins two other Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Ballmer: Microsoft 'interested' in open source browser Microsoft has given its most ringing endorsement of open source Web browsers to date, with CEO Steve Ballmer not ruling out adopting such technology as an alternative to its own popular Internet Explorer, saying it is "interesting." Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Top 10: Bill Gates retires, Symbian goes open source Microsoft, usually a source of software patch updates and claims about Vista adoption rates, produced a bit of sentimental news this week as Bill Gates stepped away from his daily corporate duties on Friday. Gates, who founded Microsoft at age 19, will now devote his 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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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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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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Are open phones more vulnerable? The opening up of the mobile industry is great news for application developers but not so good for IT security professionals who want to sleep at night, executives from the security industry said Thursday.Mobile Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Open APIs may help Microsoft repair reputation If Microsoft executes effectively on its new interoperability promises, it could repair its tarnished reputation in the technology industry and help the company get out of its own way to compete more effectively with Google. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft's Ozzie talks open source, mesh Microsoft has "dramatically" changed because of open-source software, the company's Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie said Thursday as part of a wide-ranging discussion during the annual Most Valuable Professional summit in Seattle. He also talked about Microsoft's m Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Software piracy hurts the open-source community too Proprietary software vendors, movie companies, and the music industry aren't the only businesses that don't like pirates stealing, copying, and reselling their CDs and DVDs. It turns out that pirated software can also hurt the open-source community. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Beware open source violations lurking in your code IT organizations that feel safe from open source licensing violations might be wise to check their code, as open source components are rapidly seeping into applications by way of offshore and in-house developers taking open source shortcuts, as well as a growing popul Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Microsoft hails open source outreach Microsoft continued to make its case on Tuesday that it is a friend to open source, listing a number of efforts it has undertaken in spaces ranging from Linux to virtualization and rich Internet application technology. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |