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Video Whitepaper: Enhance Your Business with Fast, Efficient Middleware
White Paper Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g is a modern application infrastructure foundation. Watch the free, on-demand video whitepaper to learn how modern enterprise software infrastructure must... [22 Oct 2009]
Photos: 10 of the best open source mobiles
Photo Symbian is also in on the open source act, after its Symbian Ltd incarnation evolved into the open source Symbian Foundation and started the process of setting the Symbian OS free. However, Android... [12 Oct 2009]
Christian Engström
AS Profile For Engström it is his latest move in his ongoing battle against digital copyright, working as an unpaid activist within the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure, a not-for-profit... [08 Oct 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Symbian
Cheat Sheet That year also saw the announcement of Android - Google's open source software platform for mobiles, while another Linux-based mobile OS effort, the LiMo Foundation, also came into being around that time. [01 Oct 2009]
Richard Stallman
AS Profile Stallman also played an important role in the creation of the Free Software Foundation that runs the annual Software Freedom Day as part of its efforts to raise... [29 Sep 2009]
Salesforce.com tech to turn customers' Twittering into useful feedback
News Salesforce.com, which sells internet-based services as an alternative to business software companies install on their own computers, has added new Twitter and crowdsourced tech support options to its... [10 Sep 2009]
'Ditch Windows, free software is the answer'
News The Free Software Foundation plans to stage a protest in Boston, US on Wednesday, where it will encourage businesses to throw away Microsoft Windows in favour of free... [26 Aug 2009]
Wikipedia parent gets $500,000 to improve user friendliness
News The Wikimedia said it plans to use the grant to improve the user-friendliness of Wikimedia's software, develop training materials to engage new potential volunteer editors, and establish metrics to track the... [21 Aug 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Google Android
Cheat Sheet Secondly its decision to launch an open source platform has rocked mobile's boat - it was doubtless a big part of the reason why proprietary mobile OS maker Symbian is now called the open source Symbian Foundation. [10 Jul 2009]
Symbian lands on Atom to fuel netbooks?
News A Symbian Foundation team has ported the Symbian operating system, used in mobile phones, onto an Atom-based motherboard, which is used mainly in netbooks. Lee Williams, the executive director of the Symbian... [20 Apr 2009]
Smartphone wars: Can Windows Mobile ever be sexy?
News So the Symbian platform - if it is given away to the Symbian Foundation, if that all goes ahead as planned - that isn't a phone, that isn't a complete solution, so there's still a lot of engineering effort that a mobile... [16 Jan 2009]
Mobile-software company UIQ files for bankruptcy
News The UIQ platform is being integrated, along with Series 60, into the Symbian Foundation's royalty-free, open-source platform, and Motorola announced in November that it would drop UIQ in order to focus... [05 Jan 2009]
2008: The year in mobile
News Mobile OS maker Symbian switched from being a propriety operation charging licence fees, to an open source foundation giving its millions of lines of code away for free.silicon.com sat down with CEO... [30 Dec 2008]
Racing Team Drives Fan Loyalty Through Desktop Gadget With Real-Time Information
White Paper The gadget was developed using Windows Presentation Foundation, Microsoft Expression Blend design software, and a prerelease version of the Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 development system. Soon to be... [03 Dec 2008]
Software for the other five billion
Comment With companies such as Cisco, Intel and Microsoft and organisations such as the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) foundation pushing to get devices into as many people's hands as possible, one missing piece remains: content. [23 Oct 2008]
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