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Why Open Source Developers Can be More Productive, and Other Tales from a Google Open House ONLamp: "Yesterday Google celebrated the opening of a larger Cambridge, Massachusetts office, which takes up a substantial part of a building right next to the Kendall/MIT subway stop in the higher-than-high tech area of East Cambridge..." Home > Rss Directory > Technology > LinuxToday |
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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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Update: Facebook open sources parts of its app development platform Facebook is releasing as open-source software parts of its application development platform in order to make it easier for programmers to create applications for the social-networking site, the company announced Monday. 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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Yahoo goes full steam ahead with 'open' strategy When Yahoo announced its Y OS (Yahoo Open Strategy) last week, it offered a vision that, if realized, could give back the company the mojo it lost several years ago.With Y OS, Yahoo pledges to open all its site Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Why Does This Prominent Amazon Researcher Face 14 Years in Prison for Biopiracy? Motoring up Brazil's Arauazinho River during the rainy season is like navigating a lake full of trees. The rust-colored water escapes its banks and spreads out across the rain forest, leaving the channel indistinguishable from the jungle around it. Marc van Roosmalen, however, seems to sense th Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Why Does This Prominent Amazon Researcher Face 14 Years in Prison for Biopiracy? Motoring up Brazil's Arauazinho River during the rainy season is like navigating a lake full of trees. The rust-colored water escapes its banks and spreads out across the rain forest, leaving the channel indistinguishable from the jungle around it. Marc van Roosmalen, however, seems to sense th Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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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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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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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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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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Yahoo's Open Strategy could be its salvation As its stock price plummets, Yahoo's executives must do something tangible and do it quickly to prove to shareholders that fighting a takeover bid by Microsoft was the right thing to do, analysts said Monday.One Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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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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'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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Update: eBay to open up merchant tool to developers EBay will open a tool used by 700,000 of its merchants to external developers, the next step in an ongoing effort to promote the creation of applications for its online marketplace.For the first time, eBay will Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Sun SPOT technology set for open source Sun is expected to announce next week that it will make the Sun SPOT (Small Programmable Object Technology) device platform available via open source, but a user expressed concerns about Sun's commitment to the technology. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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WSO2 open source mashup builder leverages JavaScript WSO2 is offering its open-source WSO2 Mashup Server product, which leverages JavaScript and Web services in assembling mashups, on Monday. In positioning the product for use by JavaScript developers, the company is looking to enable delivery of more functional mashups 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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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 |