Open Source

First FireFox Mobile OS Devices Announced

Open web-based platform gains global network support and will launch in Brazil next year

12 years ago

Red Hat Shows Hybrid Cloud Software

At its Red Hat Summit and JBoss World conference, Red Hat released a range of products allowing enterprises to deploy…

12 years ago

Microsoft Security ‘Blocks Free Software Foundation Donations’

Oops! Microsoft product labels the Free Software Foundation's donation page as a gambling site

12 years ago

Torvalds Bashes Nvidia Over Linux Support

Linux Torvalds has criticised Nividia for allegedly offering weak support for Linux developers, while exploiting the Android market for its…

12 years ago

Oracle Agrees Zero Damages In Google Java API Lawsuit

In another setback Oracle has accepted zero financial damages from Google over its Java API lawsuit

12 years ago

Mozilla Offers Easy Website Creation With Thimble

A Mozilla tool is offering beginners an easy way to create websites by making HTML coding “incredibly simple”

12 years ago

Network Rail Opens Up Data Feeds

The rail organisation hopes to encourage application creation, but developers call for more data to be made available

12 years ago

VMware Project Serengeti To Offer Virtualised Hadoop

A new open source project from VMware, dubbed Project Serengeti, aims to virtualise the Apache Hadoop platform

12 years ago

Linux Creator Torvalds Shares €1 Million Technology Prize

Linus Torvalds shares top tech prize with stem cell scientist Shinya Yamanaka

12 years ago

Android Tweaks May Double Performance

Linaro's Android 4.04 performance-boosting updates, are available for Galaxy Nexus handsets

12 years ago

Microsoft Azure Gains Infrastructure-as-a-Service Option

Microsoft has added Infrastructure-as-a-Service support to its Azure cloud platform as part of the recent upgrades

12 years ago

Microsoft Opens Windows Azure Cloud To Linux

Microsoft is now offering Linux-based operating systems on its Windows Azure cloud computing platform

12 years ago

Oracle Plans Appeal After Losing Android Java API Lawsuit

Oracle is to appeal after a US Judge ruled in favour of Google and said that Java APIs are not…

12 years ago

Government Wants Pragmatic Approach To Open Source

The government is promoting a pragmatic approach to open source software

12 years ago

Linux Foundation Launches Free Compliance Tool

A new tool is available free of charge that can track open source software components for enterprise organisations

12 years ago

World’s First IT Lesson With Raspberry Pi: Pictures

The first lesson using Raspberry Pi machines is taught, but will it produce more IT workers?

12 years ago

Plug Pulled On Open Source ‘Moonlight` Project

The Moonlight project - the open source clone of Microsoft Silverlight - has been officially abandoned

12 years ago

OpenLogic: Open Source Scanning On The Rise

OpenLogic has reported a 730 percent increase in the number of open-source scans in the past year, another indication of…

12 years ago

Rockstar Consortium Launches Patent Attacks

The patent group backed by Apple, Microsoft, RIM and others has already opened negotiations with up to 100 potential licensees,…

12 years ago

Android, iOS Enjoy Total Domination Of Mobile Ecosystem

Android and iOS now enjoy total domination of the mobile ecosystem, as Symbian languishes at just 6.8 percent

12 years ago

Tech Giants Transfer Open Data Protocol To OASIS

Microsoft and other tech giants have moved the Microsoft Open Data Protocol to the OASIS standards body

12 years ago

Google Wins Patent Fight – But It Ain’t Over ‘Til It’s Over

In the Oracle v Google legal tussle Judge William Alsup has become The Decider in what could become a landmark…

12 years ago

Android Did Not Infringe Oracle Patents, Jury Decides

Good news for Google after a jury ruled that Android did not infringe Java patents belonging to Oracle

12 years ago

Open Source Won The Mobile Platform Wars

Open source has won on mobile devices, because it makes for better software, says Funambol's Fabrizio Capobianco

13 years ago

Government Opens Door To Open Data Institute

The government has revealed plans for a Open Data Institute (ODI) to be based at Silicon Roundabout

13 years ago

Mozilla Webmaker To Teach Users How To Code

A new program from Mozilla is promising to turn humble web users into coding developers

13 years ago

GitHub Looks To Enterprise With Windows Support

The GitHub web-based project hosting service now supports Windows, with software aimed at enterprise developers

13 years ago

Linux 3.4 Kernel Boosts Virtualisation

Linux developers make improvements to virtualisation, 64-bit computing and other areas

13 years ago

Dutch Pirate Party Ordered To Stop Hosting Pirate Bay Proxy

Will the UK Pirate Party also be forced to stop helping file-sharers avoid the block on the Pirate Bay?

13 years ago