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RSS linux a in newsBT embraces open source for business
News The communications and IT giant has already been a member of the Linux Foundation since 2005. BT has joined FossBazaar, an enterprise open-source community and workgroup of the Linux Foundation. Apart from the Linux Foundation, other sponsors of... [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 Linux diams... [22 Jul 2008]
Reliability race: Microsoft OS beats 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 company that measures internet service... [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 security flaws. [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 exposure at the end of January... [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. HP and Parallels (formerly SWsoft) are coming into a highly... [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. Even in the US, demand has calmed a bit but the [hardware] market has stayed relatively strong. [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. Zittrain explained his ideas to silicon.com and... [30 Jun 2008]
Game over for Mobile Linux standards forum
News The two groups were in many ways complementary: LiPS wanted to create a formal standard for mobile Linux, and LiMo wanted to create a shared implementation of an open-source mobile platform. LiMo chief Morgan Gillis told ZDNet.co.uk on Wednesday... [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 Linux diams... [25 Jun 2008]
Red Hat CEO: We're "tough to do business with"
News Speaking on the first day of the Linux specialist's annual user conference in Boston, Whitehurst said his company need to work on its approach to "mundane" issues such as its own internal systems and managing customer records. [20 Jun 2008]
Latest Asus Eees announced
News Both models come with a gigabyte of RAM, and are available in Linux or Windows flavours. As with the Eee 900, the Linux Eee 901 has 20GB of solid-state storage while the Windows version has 12GB. With the Eee 1000, however, it is the Windows... [16 Jun 2008]
Google Android facing a fragmented future?
News Symbian has previously dismissed mobile Linux as being too fragmented in its nature but that was before Google's Open Handset Alliance (OHA) was formed or the LiMo Foundation really got going. Nonetheless, Wood reiterated his company's stance this... [13 Jun 2008]
Nokia: Open source needs a lesson in business
News Trolltech makes Qt, a graphical toolkit that is used in the KDE Linux desktop environment and in much commercial software and is an apparently non-participatory member in the LiMo Foundation. LiMo is an industry consortium that is creating a common... [12 Jun 2008]
