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RSS community in newsCanonical joins Linux Foundation
News Ubuntu community members had already been participating in workgroups at the foundation, including the Linux Standard Base, Desktop Architects and Driver Backporting groups. User interests for both commercial and community versions of Ubuntu will... [20 Aug 2008]
Google's lobby site ups US "white space" debate
News On the other side, Google and the technology community say these are simply proof of concept devices and not even prototypes that could be used in commercial products. The debate over new unlicensed spectrum the Federal Communications Commission is... [19 Aug 2008]
Linux Foundation releases developer guide
News Corbet warned: "A developer who does not understand the kernel community's ways [or, worse, who tries to flout or circumvent them] will have a frustrating experience in store. The not-for-profit organisation said the 30-page guide is central to its... [18 Aug 2008]
Free wi-fi for Scottish market town
News The teleco will be offering the rural community free and open access wi-fi for an initial 12-month trial. A small market town in the Scottish Borders is to offer free wi-fi across the whole of its town centre. [13 Aug 2008]
Companies urged not to ban Facebook
News Gartner analyst, Nikos Drakos, said an appropriate balance between freedom and control is "crucial to community growth and maintenance, and must be tuned continuously". Instead businesses should view employee participation as part of the "social... [08 Aug 2008]
Borders books becomes a podcaster
News Borders digital marketing executive Nick Atkinson told silicon.com the podcast was intended to raise the retailer's profile among habitual internet shoppers and create a community of customers. Bookseller Borders has launched an audio podcast... [05 Aug 2008]
BT's Ribbit buy to take on Android?
News With Ribbit, not only do we extend our presence in [Silicon] Valley but we also gain a ground-breaking platform, a growing community of developers and a world-class team that share a common vision. By adding Ribbit's capability to the power of BT's... [30 Jul 2008]
Internet blacklisting tool unveiled
News DShield is a community-based system that collaborates firewall logs from contributors in order to analyse attack trends, and is used as the data-collection system behind the Sans Institute's Internet Storm Center. [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. Jeremy Ruston, BT's open-source innovation chief, said: "Open source is vital to BT's transformation and the wider software community at large. [25 Jul 2008]
MySpace gets on board OpenID
News MySpace also added two new sites, movies community site Flixster and events tracking site Eventful, that will support the ability to transfer user information from their MySpace profiles. News Corp's MySpace social network will join the OpenID... [23 Jul 2008]
Police to get thousands more mobiles
News Richard Earland, CIO of the NPIA, said reducing the bureaucracy burden on police officers is a key theme of the government's policing Green Paper, published last week, and of the independent Flanagan Review of Policing which, among other things... [22 Jul 2008]
Number of free ATMs to increase by a third
News The initiative run by HM Treasury and the ATM Working Group was set up 18 months ago to offset the increase in charging ATMs and currently enables around 1.3 million UK citizens to avoid paying charges or travelling outside their community to... [18 Jul 2008]
Google open sources web 2.0 security
News Last month, Google said it would terminate support for Browser Sync, and now the company has open sourced the code for the product's client software in order to allow the developer community to continue to use and improve it, said Google developer... [14 Jul 2008]
Ubuntu founder: 'Upstream' bugs must be quashed
News He said: "Our primary goals should be to ensure that fixes we produce, and information we generate in the QA [quality-assurance] process, make their way upstream, where they will benefit the broadest cross-section of the community. [01 Jul 2008]
Google gets map happy with Tele Atlas
News CEO of Tele Atlas, Bill Henry, said the agreement is important as it gives Tele Atlas access to input from "a significant community of map users". Google and mapping company Tele Atlas have tied up a five-year deal to share mapping data across more... [30 Jun 2008]
