Open Source

Government Launches Beta Of Single Website With Gov.uk

One-stop shop for online public services could save £50 million, the government hopes

13 years ago

OpenStack Developers Ditch ‘Buggy’ Microsoft Hyper-V Support

The OpenStack open source cloud project has ditched "unmaintained" Microsoft Hyper-V code from its core module

13 years ago

Pentaho Open-Sources ‘Big Data’ Tools

Pentaho has open sourced its big data analytics tools, known as the Pentaho Kettle project

13 years ago

Google Is Experimenting With TCP To Give A Faster Web Experience

Google is testing ways to cut the latency in TCP connections that Web browsers make to request and retrieve data

13 years ago

Rubinstein Departure Hits Final Nail In HP webOS Coffin

The severing of ties between Jon Rubenstein and HP marks the end of the company's WebOS efforts as it looks…

13 years ago

Google Tests TCP To Trim Latency Issues

Google engineers are exploring ways to cut latency issues inherent in the TCP connections made by web browsers

13 years ago

WebOS To Be Open Source By September

HP announces release timetable and open source tools for developers

13 years ago

Running Analytics On iPads Now Possible With Splunk’s Flashless Edition

Splunk, the data monitor, searcher, analyser, and visualiser can now show Big Data on Apple iOS mobile devices

13 years ago

Is the European Commission Helping or Hindering Tech Entrepreneurs?

Techweek Europe asks Drupal inventor Dries Buytaert about his platform, its strong European following and his view on venture capitalism…

13 years ago

Hardened Android Release Has Better Sandboxing And Access-Control Policies

SE Android, developed by the US National Security Agency, is a security-enhanced version of Google's mobile platform

13 years ago

Samsung To Merge Bada With Tizen

Samsung is reportedly to merge its Bada smartphone operating system with the open source Tizen platform

13 years ago

Raspberry Pi Goes Into Production

Britain's Raspberry Pi ARM-based microcomputer, designed for education, is rolling off the production lines -- in China

13 years ago

Mozilla Updates Its Public Licence

Mozilla releases an update on its licence after a two-year collaborative update

13 years ago

Google Loses Email Exclusion Battle In Oracle Java Patent Infringement Trial

The Oracle v Google patent infringement trial is set for March and the judge has ruled out several contentions but…

13 years ago

Apache Releases Stable Hadoop Version 1.0 Framework

The Apache Software Foundation has officially delivered the much-anticipated version 1.0 of the Apache Hadoop framework

13 years ago

eBay Bids For Low Cost Raspberry PI Hit £2100

A tiny computer that will be sold for just £20 later this month, is currently fetching bids worth thousands on…

13 years ago

Greenpeace And Facebook Decide To Friend One Another

Eco-warriors and social networkers decide to Like one another by joining forces to encourage green data centres

13 years ago

Asus Unlocks Prime Bootloader, Announces ICS Release

Asus promises an unlock tool for its encrypted bootloader and announces Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade for Transformer Prime

13 years ago

Microsoft Gears Up For Linux On Windows Azure

Microsoft is reportedly to give its cloud platform users the chance to run Linux on its Windows Azure cloud this…

13 years ago

Users Petition Asus Over Transformer’s Encrypted Bootloader

Asus has encrypted the bootloader of its Eee Pad Transformer Prime, sparking a petition from users who want the freedom…

13 years ago

Open-Source OpenLogic Brings CloudSwing To Rackspace

Rackspace Hosting's Cloud Tools programme has been expanded with CloudSwing PaaS stacks

13 years ago

Google Claims Over 700k Android Activations Daily

Google's Android is activated on over 700,000 mobile devices every day, according to its creator Andy Rubin

13 years ago

Twitter To Open Source Encrypted Text Software For Android

Twitter has made the source code of Whisper Systems'TextSecure software available on its GitHub.

13 years ago

Google Signs Mozilla Search Deal For Firefox

Google and Mozilla have reached agreement on a new three year search deal for the Firefox web browser

13 years ago

Oracle Seeks Early Trial Against Android To Stop Developer Drift

Oracle has asked for a trial as early as January in its case against Google, because Java is losing ground…

13 years ago

Adobe Updates PhoneGap With Windows Phone Support

Open source mobile development framework, PhoneGap, has been updated to support Windows Phone

13 years ago

Samsung Phone Sales Top 300m Thanks To Galaxy

Samsung's Galaxy phones helped it top the 300 million handset unit sales mark so far this year

13 years ago

Google And Mozilla Haggle Over Search Toolbar

Mozilla is still locked in negotiations with Google to keep its search technology in the Firefox toolbar

13 years ago

What’s Next For HP’s Open Source WebOS?

HP made the right decision with WebOS, earning a lot of goodwill and a tax break. Chris Preimesberger looks to…

13 years ago

HP Open Sources webOS

HP has reached a decision on the fate of webOS, deciding to open source the software

13 years ago