Terracotta, Shadow-Soft Partner To Provide OS Scalability
(Friday, September 03, 2010 6:32:11 PM IST)
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Coming Soon: Wave In A Box
(Friday, September 03, 2010 2:28:21 PM IST)
Google has announced the "Wave in a Box" project, a stand-alone and functional open source version of Google Wave.
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Philips Unveils First Android MP4 Player
(Friday, September 03, 2010 1:16:39 PM IST)
The rumours about a new MP4 portable media player (PMP) from Philips are true! The GoGear Connect player runs Google's open source OS, supports WiFi and has an 8.1 cm (3.2-inch) touchscreen. Philips said: “The new Philips GoGear Connect takes the next step for MP4 players, being the first to offer the full Android experience. It comes pre-installed with Google Mobile applications and more than 100,000 apps can be downloaded from the Android Market.” The gadget will be available in Western Europe, USA and China from October this year.
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Chrome 6 Arrives To Celebrate The Browser's 2nd Birthday
(Friday, September 03, 2010 11:04:15 AM IST)
On the second birthday of their open source browser Chrome, Google has launched its latest stable version -- Chrome 6.
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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server For VMware
(Thursday, September 02, 2010 9:56:27 PM IST)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMware has the reliability, interoperability, and high performance customers have come to expect from SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, according to the company.
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Wireshark 1.4.0 Doesn't Support Windows 2000
(Thursday, September 02, 2010 9:35:10 PM IST)
Wireshark, the popular network protocol analyzer, has released its version 1.4.0, which not only fixes several bugs found in previous versions, but also addresses various memory leaks in the application. The latest version features preliminary Python scripting support and the ability to play RTP streams directly from the RTP Analysis, reports The Open. Notably, version 1.4 no longer includes support for Windows 2000 systems. According to the developers, “Wireshark 1.4 does not support Windows 2000. Please use Wireshark 1.2 or 1.0 on those systems.”
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Learn, Innovate And Share: Rules Of Thumb At AZRI
(Thursday, September 02, 2010 9:10:56 PM IST)
“For an open source project to have a fair chance to evolve, technologists and business drivers have to collaborate towards ensuring the same,” says Prajwala Manchikatla, application developer at AZRI Solutions Pvt Ltd in an exclusive interview.
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Android-Powered Samsung Galaxy Tab Is Now Official
(Thursday, September 02, 2010 3:13:14 PM IST)
Based on its specs, the Android-powered, Google-certified Galaxy Tab looks like a worthy challenger to Apple iPad.
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Android-Powered Tablets Starting At £99 From Archos
(Thursday, September 02, 2010 11:01:05 AM IST)
Archos releases five Android-powered, differently sized mobile devices at budget prices.
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Sony Ericsson Aims To Be The Biggest Supplier Of Android Phones
(Thursday, September 02, 2010 12:02:26 AM IST)
Sony Ericsson, the world's fifth-biggest handset manufacturer, expects half of all mobile phones sold in China to be smartphones by the year 2015. The company also aspires to be the biggest Android phone brand worldwide, mentioned Reuters in a report, which quoted president Bert Nordberg as saying: "I think we have been decently successful in the short time, and we have a goal for the company to be the biggest supplier of Android phones.”
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XBMC Announces Dharma Beta 1
(Wednesday, September 01, 2010 4:31:20 PM IST)
XBMC 10.0 beta 1 is finally here after over nine months of development. Code-named "Dharma", the first beta of version 10.0 of the open source media player introduces a new Add-on system that allows script-writers, skinners and designers to customise a user's XMBC experience, mentions The H Open. It also features hardware acceleration support for video playback, better 64-bit Linux support, various Web server improvements and support for WebM video.
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Firefox For Mobile Is Here!
(Wednesday, September 01, 2010 12:07:53 PM IST)
Now, you can use your Firefox anywhere with Fennec.
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More Organisations To Be Hosted On Open Source Stacks: Dave Hall
(Wednesday, September 01, 2010 11:35:00 AM IST)
As the desktop becomes less important, open source developer and enthusiast Dave Hall sees greater opportunities for organisations to switch to Linux-based desktop environments. In an exclusive interview, Hall talks about his contribution to FOSS and open source software and the way forward.
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“Open Standards Of Cloud Computing, Key Challenge To Open Source”
(Tuesday, August 31, 2010 2:54:10 PM IST)
Open source contributor and one of our esteemed speakers at OSI Days this year, David Coallier, chief technology officer, echolibre, spoke to EFYTimes. Excerpts:
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Chromium Gets GPU Graphics Overhaul
(Tuesday, August 31, 2010 11:04:35 AM IST)
Chromium is getting a GPU graphics overhaul, according to Google developers. “New APIs and markup like WebGL and 3D CSS transforms are a major motivation for this work, but it also lets Chromium begin to take advantage of the GPU to speed up its entire drawing model, including many common 2D operations such as compositing and image scaling. As a lot of that work has been landing in tip-of-tree Chromium lately, we figured it was time for a primer,” Chromium Blog announced on Friday.
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Xperia X10 To Get Upgraded To Android 2.1
(Tuesday, August 31, 2010 10:30:37 AM IST)
Android 2.1 is coming to Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 before the end of September this year. Responding to one of its Twitter followers, Sony Ericsson UK said that the Android 2.1 update is due for release before the end of September, ahead of the original Q4 timeframe, reports CNET. The smartphone currently ships with Android 1.6 [Donut].
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This Device Has Nokia's Body And Android's Brains
(Saturday, August 28, 2010 2:37:19 PM IST)
Some enthusiastic developers have created a version of the Android operating system which is compatible with Nokia's Internet tablets and devices. It allows them to install Android on Nokia phones. Developers have created the versions for various devices including N900, reports Wired.com. “Nokia’s hardware is fantastic but their software is suboptimal, slow, buggy and not always the best user experience. Android is a much better software environment for Nokia hardware than what Nokia provides,” says Terrence Eden, a UK-based mobile consultant who installed Android 1.6 “Donut” on his Nokia N810.
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VLC Media Player 1.1.4 Released
(Saturday, August 28, 2010 10:39:56 AM IST)
The latest version comes just a week after the release of version 1.1.3 of this popular free and open source cross-platform multimedia player that can play various audio and video formats. Apart from addressing many bugs, the new version come packed with a number of translation updates and includes a fix to the DLL vulnerability on Windows systems that affects a wide variety of Windows-based programs, reports The H Open.
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Fennec Alpha Launched For Android, Nokia N900
(Friday, August 27, 2010 7:53:57 PM IST)
The first Alpha release of Fennec (codename for Firefox mobile) comes with Firefox Sync built right into the browser.
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Diaspora To Be Open-Sourced On Sep 15
(Friday, August 27, 2010 10:00:10 AM IST)
The project aims to be a "privacy aware, personally controlled, do-it-all, open source social network" where users are in charge of their own data.
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Google, HTC Coming Up With Chrome-based Tablet
(Thursday, August 26, 2010 5:54:31 PM IST)
Google's tablet will be manufactured by HTC and is expected to run on the Linux-based Chrome OS.
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OpenGeo Announces Support For Multiple Cloud Infra
(Wednesday, August 25, 2010 10:32:14 PM IST)
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Red Hat Cloud Foundations Centers On Portability
(Wednesday, August 25, 2010 10:29:18 PM IST)
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Microsoft Accepts Mistake, Now Loves Open Source!
(Wednesday, August 25, 2010 3:25:03 PM IST)
Microsoft's senior executive admits that the company’s previous criticism of open source software was ‘a mistake’ and says that now the company 'loves' open source.
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HP To Ship WebOS Tablet in Early 2011
(Wednesday, August 25, 2010 12:19:25 AM IST)
According to Todd Bradley, executive vice president of HP's Personal Systems Group, a new tablet device running on Palm's WebOS operating system will be launched sometime early next year, reports Linuxfordevices.com. Eversince HP acquired Palm earlier this year, rumours have been rife that the forthcoming HP devices may come powered with Palm's WebOS operating system.

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