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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 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. Separately, Google also released Browser Sync, a product designed for keeping multiple versions of Firefox synchronised, under an open-source licence. [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 Working alongside NXP Semiconductors, it gained further exposure at the end of January by launching the Purple Magic phone, a cheap, Linux-powered, 3G handset that could be sold to operators for less than $100. [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. Parallels said its model should allow for a more flexible operating... [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 firm Gartner, which has... [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. Asked whether the idea of creating a formal specification... [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 With the Eee 1000, however, it is the Windows version that has more storage - 80GB of hard drive versus 40GB for the Linux version. Both models come with a gigabyte of RAM, and are available in Linux or Windows flavours. [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 Nokia's primary play in the open-source sphere thus far has been Maemo, the Linux-based operating system that runs on its N800-series tablet devices. Trolltech makes Qt, a graphical toolkit that is used in the KDE Linux desktop environment and in... [12 Jun 2008]
