Red Hat's Szulik Is Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year 2008
(Thursday, November 20, 2008 12:16:00 PM IST)
Matthew Szulik receives top national honour for visionary leadership, innovation and personal commitment to Red Hat and open source.
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Nokia, Oulu Support realXtend Project
(Thursday, November 20, 2008 11:25:26 AM IST)
The objective of the realXtend virtual reality platform is to develop a global, standardised 3D-web of virtual worlds by making virtual world technologies available to everyone, free of charge.
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Red Hat, Ingres Offer ISVs Enterprise Open Source Platform
(Wednesday, November 19, 2008 12:46:04 PM IST)
A kick-off event on 27 November 2008 in Germany will signal the start of joint activities between the companies.
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Sun Cuts 6,000 Jobs, Plans Restructuring
(Monday, November 17, 2008 10:15:07 AM IST)
Sun has announced a global workforce reduction and alignment of its Software organisation into new business groups.
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Novell Announces SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Subscription
(Saturday, November 15, 2008 4:56:41 PM IST)
Under the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Subscription programme, Novell provides technical support for a customer's existing Linux deployments for up to two years while they make the transition to SUSE Linux Enterprise.
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ITTIA Introduces Open Database Connectivity For ITTIA DB
(Wednesday, November 12, 2008 1:18:32 PM IST)
With ODBC added to ITTIA DB's features, developers are now able to tune-up their application performance and use standard interface.
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Google, Motorola Join GNOME Foundation
(Friday, November 07, 2008 12:25:59 PM IST)
The support for free and open source software is growing especially in the mobile space with technologies like GNOME Mobile.
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15 Nov: National Conference On Free Software 2008
(Thursday, November 06, 2008 2:13:26 PM IST)
The conference showcases Freedom Show -- an exhibition of various free software platforms, tools, packages and services.
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Free Symphony Open For Mac, Ubuntu!
(Thursday, November 06, 2008 10:20:38 AM IST)
IBM has also announced that future versions of Symphony will be developed entirely on the ODF 1.2 and OpenOffice 3.0 software code base.
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Drupal Wins Best Overall 2008 Open Source CMS Award
(Tuesday, November 04, 2008 4:03:58 PM IST)
Finishing in second place was Joomla!, the youngest of the three finalists and a previous winner of the Overall Award.
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Lenovo Targets New Netbook At Students
(Saturday, November 01, 2008 4:12:50 PM IST)
Lenovo has launched a netbook PC designed to be the first mobile PC for K-12 students and a 'secondary device' for college students. The latest offering from Lenovo will give students an option to use the latest version of Novell's SUSE Linux enterprise desktop instead of Windows XP or XP Pro2 at a simple cost of $400.
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1 Dec: The Open World Forum
(Saturday, November 01, 2008 12:53:35 PM IST)
The Open World Forum will bring together thousands of attendees and 160 speakers from 20 countries to cross-fertilise FLOSS initiatives for innovation and competitiveness.
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Intel Joins Taiwan To Set Up Moblin Lab
(Saturday, November 01, 2008 12:37:15 PM IST)
Intel Corporation has announced agreements with government and industry in Taiwan intended to extend Taiwan's position as a leading centre for developing and deploying the world's next generation of connected devices and related technologies.
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Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop, Server To Be Launched On Oct 30
(Monday, October 27, 2008 3:11:59 PM IST)
Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop Edition delivers the features you need for an increasingly mobile digital life, including 3G wireless support and guest sessions that lets users temporarily share without compromising security.
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IBM, Intel Open Up Switch Specification For Blade Servers
(Saturday, October 25, 2008 12:23:55 PM IST)
IBM will extend the BladeCenter switch specification for blade servers to the Server Systems Infrastructure (SSI) organisation on a royalty-free basis.
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Sun's Co-Founder Leaves The Company Again
(Friday, October 24, 2008 10:31:57 AM IST)
Andy Bechtolsheim, according to the company will remain in a part-time relationship with Sun, will now look after a startup company, Arista Networks.
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Third-Party Apps Now Live On Rediff.com
(Thursday, October 23, 2008 4:31:02 PM IST)
With this new open platform initiative, Rediff.com brings new opportunities to users as well as application developer partners.
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Motorola Planning To Launch Android-Based Handset
(Thursday, October 23, 2008 10:35:16 AM IST)
Motorola is planning to launch its Android-based phone. The phone will hit the markets by second quarter of 2009 and will feature under category of social smartphones. "The Android phone is an interesting development so watch this space," Blinkhorn said, adding the platform provides a good opportunity for handset makers like Motorola.
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Linux OS Worth $10.8 Billion
(Thursday, October 23, 2008 10:32:19 AM IST)
The Linux Foundation estimates value of Linux kernel and distros in its latest report.
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Wind River To Offer Commercial Android Solution
(Wednesday, October 22, 2008 1:07:39 PM IST)
As part of Android commercialisation platform of Open Handset Alliance, Wind River will be offering broad range of mobile and open source expertise for G1.
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Google Announces Android Source Code
(Wednesday, October 22, 2008 12:23:59 PM IST)
Google Android mobile platform based on Open Handset Alliance has hit the market on Tuesday and with that came the release of its source code. Android source code will be released under the Apache licence, and developers can find the code on the website for the Android Open Source Project. Considered to be one of the major releases in the open source world, it is expected to change the world of mobile handsets and portable computing devices.
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Macraigor, Viosoft Launch Linux Development Toolkit For ARM
(Wednesday, October 22, 2008 11:42:48 AM IST)
The toolkit enables end-to-end cross-platform development and debug of Linux applications on ARM.
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Indian Political Party Turns To FOSS
(Tuesday, October 21, 2008 2:11:41 PM IST)
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), one of India's largest political parties, plans to go digital, and Linux will play a major role in achieving that goal. BJP aims to build its whole information and computer technology infrastructure on open source platform. The decision could be an internal choice but coming from such a big political party certainly creates a commotion as well as hope in Indian FOSS community for future deployment of open source in schools and administrations.
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Nokia Enriches Application Development With Qt For S60
(Tuesday, October 21, 2008 2:06:47 PM IST)
Nokia has announced the technical preview of Qt, a C++ application development framework to be ported on S60 devices. The latest offering will help developers create application on any of Windows, Mac, Linux, Windows CE, Windows Mobile and embedded Linux platforms.
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Novell Rolls Out New Access Governance Suite
(Tuesday, October 21, 2008 2:00:14 PM IST)
The Novell Access Governance Suite enables IT security professionals to share the responsibility and process for access management with the business line managers that have a better understanding of who should have access to what information.
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