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Article | 2/07/2009 Red Hat program certifies partners to put Linux on cloud
Red Hat has launched a new partner program to make sure its enterprise Linux and JBoss software are core components of a cloud-computing infrastructur...
Article | 17/06/2009 CIA's technology arm taps open source for enterprise search
The company in charge of providing technology to the U.S. intelligence community has invested in an open-source firm to provide enterprise-search tech...
Article | 10/06/2009 Fedora 11 adds virtualization, software management tools
The Fedora Project on Tuesday released version 11 of its Linux open source operating system, adding expanded hardware support, new software management...
Article | 19/05/2009 Ubuntu One service stirs up open-source controversy
The commercial sponsor and originator of the Ubuntu project, Canonical, has stepped into new territory with the launch of a storage and sync service c...
Article | 4/05/2009 Programmer sues Google over 'Android'
The owner of an obscure US software development company is suing Google and everyone else in the Open Handset Alliance over their use of the word "And...
Article | 16/04/2009 The Android 1.5 challenge: Beat iPhone 3.0, Palm Pre
Version 1.5 of the Android platform will have new features sought by users and developers since the mobile operating system's first release, but none ...
Article | 30/03/2009 Open source firms urged to go on legal offensive
Open-source software companies are missing out on a relatively inexpensive way to fight concerns about patent liability, according to an attorney who ...
Article | 23/01/2009 Wikipedia video gets boost with $100,000 Mozilla grant
The proliferation of standards-based video sharing and collaboration is set to take off with a $US100,000 grant from the Mozilla Foundation to fund th...
Article | 5/02/2009 Microsoft may go open source with Danger
Microsoft may do the unthinkable with Danger, the mobile software and services developer it purchased last year: Go open source.
Article | 30/01/2009 Microsoft releases Web Sandbox under open source
Microsoft has made source code for its Live Labs Web Sandbox project for securing Web content through isolation available via open source under the Ap...
Article | 28/01/2009 UK Tories consider open source and limit on size of gov't IT
The Tories could order the wholesale introduction of open source IT systems if they are returned to office at the next election.
Article | 16/01/2009 Google's Jaiku changes: Better or the beginning of the end?
Open-sourcing Jaiku is either good news or bad news for users of the microblogging service, depending on who's doing the talking.
Article | 8/01/2009 Vietnam pushes open-source software for government use
The Vietnamese government will move to several open-source applications by the end of next year as the country also tries to reduce the use of pirated...
Article | 22/10/2008 Google releases Android source code
Google announced on Tuesday that the source code for its mobile operating system, Android, is now available for anyone to use free.
Article | 25/09/2008 Free software: It's about the money
Open-source software developers are seeing a lot of interest in their products in Europe -- but it's North American companies that are opening their c...