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CrunchGear (Free subscription) | yesterday
For quite a while now, I’ve been following the progress of the Pandora, an open-source handheld for music, movies, and games. It’s hard to stay excited, though, when there’s the constant threat of the thing ceasing to exist. That seemed to be a risk for a while, but now we’re being told that all the [...]
Open Source (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Microsoft's strategy against open source ties up institutions that are authoritative, creating a benefit for the institution that ties its members to proprietary Microsoft tools.
open... (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Now here's an idea : Computer code is also at the heart of a scientific issue. One of the key features of science is deniability: if you erect a theory and someone produces evidence that it is wrong, then it falls. This is how science works: by openness, by publishing minute details of an experiment, some mathematical equations or a simulation; by doing this you embrace deniability. This does not seem...
The Proverbial Lone Wolf Librarian' (Free subscription) | yesterday
Phoronix (Free subscription) | yesterday
As we alluded to last week, we have been in the process of benchmarking many Radeon HD 2000/3000/4000 series graphics cards using the open-source ATI Linux graphics stack with the Mesa R600/700 DRI driver. We have now carried out our first batch of R600/700 3D tests using this constantly evolving open-source driver to provide OpenGL acceleration and here are the results.
Market Wire (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
SANDY, UT (MARKET WIRE) Opengear (www.opengear.com), a leading provider of next-generation console server and KVM over IP solutions, today announced that it saw significant growth and industry validation in 2009.
Blog About Beer (Free subscription) | yesterday
A new open-source application has hit the Interwebs designed specifically for the homebrewers among us. The application, entitled Brewtarget, is designed to help homebrew enthusiasts create and organize their beer recipes. Apparently, it’s a free, open-source version of Beer Tools. From the Brewtarget homepage, I was fed up with the lack of good open source beer [...]
WordPress Planet (Free subscription) | yesterday
Tracy and Matt's Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Symbian OS used on many mobile phones from manufacturers such as Nokia (N97, 5800 XpressMusic, N86 8MP), Sony Ericsson ( Satio , G900, W960), and Samsung (i8910 HD, i8510 ) to name just a few. The group behind this OS has been giving away "billions of dollars" worth of code for free. Here's what the BBC News said on the matter: The Symbian Foundation's announced that it would make its...
Free Gamer (Free subscription) | yesterday
The beauty of a (puzzle) game is not only what we see and hear, but also what we feel when pressing buttons and moving the mouse. Controls are important and I prefer them crispy. No free software puzzle game has more flavor than Krank . The player piece is a string of circles, which follow the cursor to collide with smaller pieces, which need to be connected to static pieces in different combinations....
eWEEKeurope (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
The British Library's new collaboration tool is based on Microsoft's Codeplex technology, but free software campaigners question the openness of the…
GSM Dome - Mobile Phone News (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
The Symbian Foundation has recently announced that the complete Symbian platform is available for download now and use under open source licenses. Here’s a video explaining what the innovation of this initiative really is, explained by Chris Davidson from the Symbian Foundation. All Symbian platform source code is now available as open source code, even if [...]
Creative Cultures (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
McKinsey Quarterly article on how companies engage with knowledge brokers — people from other companies or industries willing to share relevant expertise and tacit knowledge — to innovate their business processes.
virtualization.info (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Just in case you missed it, XenServer is now open source. It’s confirmed by the Citrix CTO of Virtualization and Management division Simon Crosby , who answered a question about this topic on virtualization.info. Citrix XenServer is a commercial implementation of the Xen open source hypervisor, as much as Oracle VM Server and Novell SUSE Enterprise Linux Xen. XenSource, the company which sponsored...
Alex Massie (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
David Cameron's speech on "Rebuilding trust in politics" (good luck with that!) was the usual curate's egg: nice and appealling in theory but also vague and gimmicky. This part, for instance, was quite reassuring even if, like so much else, it has more than a hint og Googlism about it: We are a new generation, come of age in the modern world of openness and accountability. And when we say...
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daviddd | yesterday
The open source operating system Google Chrome OS is designed to handle web applications. Debuting in July 2009, the program is supposed to have a stable release in the beginning of 2010. Google Chrome OS is based on Linux and only operates on special software. The system resembles the Chrome web browser. Google Chrome OS is designed for individuals who spend the majority of their computer time on...
vegacarr | 02/08/2010
http://www.makeyourownwebsiteeasy.com The Simple New Web System offers you everything you need to make and promote a successful professional website. Step-by-step video tutorials show you how to build professional websites, search engine optimize them and promote them using the worlds’ best scalable open source software and advanced on and off page SEO techniques to drive the right kind of traffic...
spinxwebdesign | 02/08/2010
Scuttle is a free and open source social bookmarking software developed in PHP and MySQL and is available for download at many websites. This is basic step by step guide to quickly set up your new scuttle social bookmarking website. Here the assumptions made are that you are already familiar with purchasing domain names and setting up hosting and MySQL databases. But if you do not have this experience...
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