collaborative applications in news
LiMo targets the business mobile
News Leach said: "For LiMo it is a validation of its collaborative-development model and the [intellectual property] safe harbour that it creates, allowing proprietary and open-source software to co-exist within a single platform. [15 May 2008]
Web 2.0 'imperative' for business
News Web 2.0 and web content management facilitate collaborative communication, Kearney said in an interview. The industry is looking at deploying web 2.0 to empower the user community, to create a collaborative workspace where people who are not... [27 Mar 2008]
Microsoft shows "concept-car style" OS
News Available on the company's CodePlex collaborative open source website, the operating system is available for free to the academic and research communities in the hope that they will use it to develop new kinds of computer architecture. [11 Mar 2008]
Adobe buys web word processor
News The move expands Adobe's collaborative software services and steps up its competition with Microsoft and a host of other web application providers, including Google. The technology underpinning these applications is Adobe's Flash Player and AIR... [01 Oct 2007]
Google turns into teachers' pet
News According to Google's site: "We think of this site as a platform of teaching resources - for everything from blogging and collaborative writing to geographical search tools and 3D modelling software - and we want you to fill it in with your great... [12 Oct 2006]
Google exec queries Berners-Lee's semantic web
News Consistent use of these specifications, said Berners-Lee, will allow the semantic web to maintain the collaborative nature the world wide web was originally intended to have. A semantic web - a web with linked data easily readable by machines... [19 Jul 2006]
DTI gives £80m to innovative tech
News ICT will get a portion of the funding, with £9m going toward collaborative research and development projects focused on data, scientific and medical visualisation for innovative products and services. [29 Mar 2006]
Does Google buy spell Office challenge?
News Yes, Writely is a web-based, collaborative document editor but it's also a service in its infancy. Last October, Google's partnership with Sun set off intense speculation that the companies would collaborate around OpenOffice.org to create a hosted... [10 Mar 2006]
Oracle made a move on MySQL
News Oracle tried to acquire open source database maker MySQL, an indication of the profound changes the software giant is willing to make as it adapts to the increasingly significant collaborative programming philosophy. [16 Feb 2006]
IBM looks to open source to boost patent quality
News IBM is also expected to detail three multi-party efforts to increase review of patent applications, in part by tapping open-source developers and collaborative software. IBM's Sutor said growing interest in the patent system and emerging... [10 Jan 2006]
Amazon wants to pick your brains
News Lenssen said he's particularly interested in Amazon's new tool because it's very similar to an idea he had proposed last March called the Collaborative Human Interpreter. Mechanical Turk allows developers and businesses to programmatically... [11 Nov 2005]
Google and Sun get together for desktop apps
News Sun Microsystems and Google plan to announce a collaborative effort that some analysts speculate could elevate the profile of the OpenOffice.org and Java software packages. In addition, it has the ambition of becoming the company that supplies... [04 Oct 2005]
Big Blue bulks up email and server software
News In Domino 7, IBM is touting increased capabilities for building new collaborative applications in Notes. Ken Bisconti, vice president of IBM's Workplace, Portal and Collaboration business, said more customers than ever are pushing the company to... [08 Sep 2005]
Emerging tech gets the hype test treatment
News The analysts also believe consumer services like Skype will make inroads into the business market and predict that it will be important "for collaborative and multimedia applications as well as low-cost communications". [25 Aug 2005]
Open source 'academy' aims to crack public sector
News Local authorities can already share code through websites, such as the Local Authority Software Consortium, but Taylor claims the collaborative effort is limited as it runs on proprietary Microsoft technology. [06 Apr 2005]
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