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RSS linux for in newsGoogle ups Search Appliance index
News On top is Google's software, including a customised version of the Linux operating system. Google has expanded the capacity of its Search Appliance and made other improvements to the customised server that lets people... [06 Aug 2008]
LiMo adds browser-based UI kit to arsenal
News The mobile Linux company Movial officially joined the LiMo Foundation on Monday, bringing with it its toolkit for creating browser-based user interfaces. Movial was one of the companies involved in the... [05 Aug 2008]
Motorola, Panasonic welcome LiMo Platform
News The new phones, from Motorola, NEC and Panasonic, are the latest to ship with Release 1 of the LiMo Platform, a Linux-based operating system for mobile phones developed by a consortium of wireless... [04 Aug 2008]
Windows XP for $100 laptop finalised
News On 15 May, Microsoft and the OLPC announced they were going to deliver Windows on XO machines, which previously were slated to run Linux only. That announcement led to complaints by Linux backers and... [28 Jul 2008]
BT embraces open source for business
News BT has joined FossBazaar, an enterprise open-source community and workgroup of the Linux Foundation. The communications and IT giant has already been a member of the Linux Foundation since 2005. Apart... [25 Jul 2008]
BBC to take better care of web budget
News BBC iPlayer: Latest coverage BBC plugs iPlayer hack loophole BBC iPlayer lands on iPhone Cheat Sheet: BBC iPlayer BBC iPlayer gets 3.5 million hits Open sourcers welcome BBC iPlayer for... [22 Jul 2008]
Microsoft OS update service availability tops Apple, Ubuntu
News Apple's service was down two hours and 34 minutes, with 99.9 per cent uptime, and Canonical's Ubuntu version of Linux was down one day, five hours and 45 minutes, for 98.64 per cent uptime. Pingdom, a... [15 Jul 2008]
Google open sources web 2.0 security
News Ratproxy currently supports Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS X and Windows, and is available from Google Code. Google has released as open source a web application assessment tool, Ratproxy, that is designed to root out potential... [14 Jul 2008]
Five ways Microsoft could change after Gates
News One of the signs that this will take place is Moonlight - the Novell-sponsored, open source, Linux-based implementation of the Silverlight web application development platform - which Microsoft helped build. [07 Jul 2008]
LiMo adds Openwave browser to arsenal
News Purple Labs, an increasingly prominent mobile Linux firm and a member of the LiMo Foundation, has bought the browser and messaging side of Openwave's business. Working alongside NXP Semiconductors, it gained further... [07 Jul 2008]
HP Integrity gets Parallel virtualisation
News HP has said it will offer technology from virtualisation company Parallels to those customers who wish to virtualise Microsoft Windows and Linux workloads on HP Integrity servers. The deal, announced on Tuesday, will see... [03 Jul 2008]
Hardware defies economic gloom
News Linux-based systems are a beneficiary of this trend, thanks to the move away from high-end Unix systems to x86-based systems. Forecasts of economic gloom do not apply to the hardware market just yet, according to analyst... [02 Jul 2008]
Jonathan Zittrain on why the internet is on a knife edge
News It's been fascinating to me that China has seen a strong uptake of GNU/Linux encouraged by the government even as it also desires to cultivate technologies that can be much more readily controlled. Internet scholar... [30 Jun 2008]
Game over for Mobile Linux standards forum
News The attempted standardisation of mobile Linux has been put on hold indefinitely, after the Linux Phone Standards Forum announced it was to merge with the Linux Mobile Foundation. The... [27 Jun 2008]
BBC takes wraps off iPlayer 2.0
News BBC iPlayer: Latest coverage BBC plugs iPlayer hack loophole BBC iPlayer lands on iPhone Cheat Sheet: BBC iPlayer BBC iPlayer gets 3.5 million hits Open sourcers welcome BBC iPlayer for... [25 Jun 2008]
