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RSS open source blogUbuntu founder: 'Upstream' bugs must be quashed
News Shuttleworth wrote in a blog post: "We need to accept some responsibility for all the software defects ('bugs') that users actually experience across the entire stack. The founder of the Ubuntu... [01 Jul 2008]
Mobile Ubuntu invites developers to build
News David Mandala, project manager of the Ubuntu Mobile and Embedded Group, said in a blog posting: "This release marks the start of a way for new users to experience Ubuntu and open source... [26 Jun 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Wireless jelly
Comment The Naked CIO: Is open source dead? Written in a London coffee shop with the five-bar signal problem and dispatched via a free wi-fi node later the same day. You know how it is: you're in a coffee shop... [13 Jun 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Healthy mobility
Comment The Naked CIO: Is open source dead? Written on a rainy summer afternoon just four miles from my home in a local café with a free wi-fi service. At a recent conference I was describing how mobile devices... [10 Jun 2008]
Editor's Blog: Coming soon - our list of the UK's top CIOs
Comment And, of course, getting the most out of technology is a core part of the job - which means issues such as virtualisation, consolidation and open source crop up too. Here at silicon.com we spend a lot of... [30 May 2008]
Microsoft: Why we chose ODF support over OOXML
News Matusow wrote in a blog post: "This is not about any one document format 'winning' - it is about enabling customers to evaluate and use document formats that make the most sense for them. Some members of the... [23 May 2008]
Skype drops open-source appeal
News Welte said in his blog: "In the end, the court hinted twice that, if it was to judge about the case, Skype would not have very high chances. Skype has abandoned its efforts to avoid complying with an... [12 May 2008]
Editor's Blog: The race to get the Olympic tech ready
Comment Check out the Naked CIO who this week is giving a controversial view of open source software. I had a fascinating if rather rushed 46 hours in Beijing recently, getting a sneak preview of the 2008... [08 May 2008]
Dear silicon.com... XP lives, the femtocell 'truth', BlackBerry bashing…
Comment Editor's choice silicon.com editor Steve Ranger flags up his picks on the site this week.¦ Peter Cochrane's Blog: Airport insecurity ¦ Video Cheat Sheet: Data Breaches ¦ Photos: The Birth of Hi-Tech Britain ¦... [01 May 2008]
Microsoft Office 2007 fails to conform with OOXML
News In a blog posting this week, Alex Brown, leader of the ISO group in charge of maintaining the Office Open XML (OOXML) standard, revealed Microsoft Office 2007 documents do not meet the latest... [21 Apr 2008]
Red Hat: Linux consumer desktop not on the cards
News Red Hat's desktop team said in a blog report: "We have no plans to create a traditional desktop product for the consumer market in the foreseeable future. Anyone who has read anything about open... [21 Apr 2008]
Dear silicon.com... green carrots, cloud nine chats, open source ponderings …
Comment ¦ Peter Cochrane's Video Blog: Multitasking mastery ¦ Heathrow Terminal 5 opens its doors ¦ Video: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine ¦ Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine National pride doesn't enter... [27 Mar 2008]
Microsoft mobile - king of open world?
News He wrote on his blog: "The restrictions on what your application is allowed to do is total, laugh-out-loud, crap. The star of application-rich mobile phones, Apple's iPhone, has been met with criticism from the... [20 Mar 2008]
Microsoft strikes back at open source critics
News Microsoft product manager Gray Knowlton responded to the allegations in his blog. The SFLC published a legal analysis of Microsoft's Open Specification Promise, a document written to give developers the,... [18 Mar 2008]
Google's engineer talks OpenSocial and the price of innovation
News Marks, a veteran of blog search start-up Technorati, now works on the search giant's OpenSocial initiative, which is working toward a universal standard for social networking standards and is slated to launch on... [03 Mar 2008]
