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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]
Google open sources data-moving tool
News The tool, which has been in use for several years at Google, handles the process in which the company encodes almost any sort of structured information that needs to be passed across the network or stored on a disk, Google open-source programs... [11 Jul 2008]
Dear silicon.com: Tech teacher shortage, Kangaroo and phones on planes
Comment ¦ Peter Cochrane's Video Blog: Power outrage ¦ Getting to the meeting - without the journey ¦ Bill Gates, iPhone 2.0, mini laptops and much more. If schools used and taught computers using open source software then perhaps students would... [03 Jul 2008]
Ubuntu founder: 'Upstream' bugs must be quashed
News Shuttleworth wrote in a blog post: "We need to accept some responsibility for all the software defects ('bugs') that users actually experience across the entire stack. The founder of the Ubuntu open-source operating system, Mark Shuttleworth, has... [01 Jul 2008]
Mobile Ubuntu invites developers to build
News David Mandala, project manager of the Ubuntu Mobile and Embedded Group, said in a blog posting: "This release marks the start of a way for new users to experience Ubuntu and open source software and, as the hardware becomes commonplace, it will... [26 Jun 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Wireless jelly
Comment The Naked CIO: Is open source dead? Written in a London coffee shop with the five-bar signal problem and dispatched via a free wi-fi node later the same day. You know how it is: you're in a coffee shop working online and using the free wi-fi service. [13 Jun 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Healthy mobility
Comment The Naked CIO: Is open source dead? Written on a rainy summer afternoon just four miles from my home in a local café with a free wi-fi service. At a recent conference I was describing how mobile devices would become even more indispensable if... [10 Jun 2008]
Editor's Blog: Coming soon - our list of the UK's top CIOs
Comment And, of course, getting the most out of technology is a core part of the job - which means issues such as virtualisation, consolidation and open source crop up too. Here at silicon.com we spend a lot of time talking to - and listening to - CIOs. [30 May 2008]
Microsoft: Why we chose ODF support over OOXML
News Matusow wrote in a blog post: "This is not about any one document format 'winning' - it is about enabling customers to evaluate and use document formats that make the most sense for them. Some members of the open-source community were also... [23 May 2008]
Skype drops open-source appeal
News Welte said in his blog: "In the end, the court hinted twice that, if it was to judge about the case, Skype would not have very high chances. Skype has abandoned its efforts to avoid complying with an open-source licence that requires it to provide... [12 May 2008]
Editor's Blog: The race to get the Olympic tech ready
Comment Check out the Naked CIO who this week is giving a controversial view of open source software. I had a fascinating if rather rushed 46 hours in Beijing recently, getting a sneak preview of the 2008 Olympic venues - and meeting the IT team tasked... [08 May 2008]
Dear silicon.com... XP lives, the femtocell 'truth', BlackBerry bashing…
Comment Editor's choice silicon.com editor Steve Ranger flags up his picks on the site this week.¦ Peter Cochrane's Blog: Airport insecurity ¦ Video Cheat Sheet: Data Breaches ¦ Photos: The Birth of Hi-Tech Britain ¦ India's high-tech... [01 May 2008]
Microsoft Office 2007 fails to conform with OOXML
News In a blog posting this week, Alex Brown, leader of the ISO group in charge of maintaining the Office Open XML (OOXML) standard, revealed Microsoft Office 2007 documents do not meet the latest specifications of the ISO OOXML draft standard. [21 Apr 2008]
Red Hat: Linux consumer desktop not on the cards
News Red Hat's desktop team said in a blog report: "We have no plans to create a traditional desktop product for the consumer market in the foreseeable future. Anyone who has read anything about open source for any length of time understands Ubuntu's... [21 Apr 2008]
Dear silicon.com... green carrots, cloud nine chats, open source ponderings …
Comment ¦ Peter Cochrane's Video Blog: Multitasking mastery ¦ Heathrow Terminal 5 opens its doors ¦ Video: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine ¦ Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine National pride doesn't enter the equation, open... [27 Mar 2008]
