Open Source

Microsoft Targets Huawei Over Android Patents

Huawei is the latest to lock horns with Microsoft over royalty payments for its Android devices

13 years ago

Apple Boss Backs Kindle Fire To Damage Android

Apple is reportedly backing the Amazon Kindle Fire tablet to further fragment the Android market

13 years ago

Android Support Costing £1.2bn, Survey Reveals

The support costs of low-end smartphones have been revealed, with Android handsets costing billions

13 years ago

‘Cocktails’ Time For Web Developers: Yahoo

A new set of developer tools for Web applications using HTML5, JavaScript, Node.js and CSS3 released by Yahoo

13 years ago

Gov’t Publishes Open Source Procurement Advice

The government has published procurement advice for public sector bodies acquiring open source software

13 years ago

Red Hat: The Integrated Stack Is Critical

Embedded virtualisation makes more sense than having a layer of software underlying the operating system, says Navin Thadani

13 years ago

OpenMAMA Offers Open-Source Messaging

Financial services firms and the Linux Foundation announce OpenMAMA messaging API

13 years ago

Canonical Aims Ubuntu At Smartphones

Canonical will begin work on a multi-device version of Ubuntu Linux that will work on tablets and smartphones

13 years ago

Red Hat Joins Facebook’s Open Compute Project

Red Hat has joined Facebook's project to make a greater use of open source hardware within new data centres

13 years ago

First OpenStack Public Cloud Is Hosted By Internap

The OpenStack framework has been chosen as the base for a public cloud-computing platform from Internap

13 years ago

Google: Nexus S To Get Cool ‘Sandwich’ Update

Nexus S users will be able to use the latest "buttersilk smooth" Android update but Nexus One is too old

13 years ago

Oracle Offers NoSQL Database For Big Data Push

Oracle continues its big data push after making its NoSQL database available for download

13 years ago

Linux Kernel Released With Virtualisation Boost

Linux 3.1 includes support for OpenRISC, NFC, Wii controllers and advanced virtualisation features

13 years ago

Google Adds Security Features To Ice Cream Sandwich

Google's Android 4.0, 'Ice Cream Sandwich', includes a feature designed to head off malware damage

13 years ago

Compal Submits To Microsoft’s Android Agreement

Microsoft's legal onslaught continues with the company grabbing its tenth Android patent license deal

13 years ago

Government Plans To Save £1.4bn With Online Services

Half government departments will be on public clouds in Francis Maude's plan to boost services and cut costs

13 years ago

Ubuntu Summit Plans To Polish The Precise Pangolin

With Oneiric Ocelot just released, Canonical's Mark Shuttleworth wants to get next year's release right

13 years ago

The Cloud’s Not The Limit For LibreOffice

LibreOffice's first annual conference shows it to be in rude health following its fork from OpenOffice, says Iris Cheerin

13 years ago

Apache Re-affirms Backing For OpenOffice.org

The Apache Foundation has declared OpenOffice.org as an official part of its incubation scheme

13 years ago

Ubuntu Server 11.10 Could Rule The Cloud: Review

While Linux-based operating system Ubuntu has been closely associated with the desktop, the project’s server variant has grown more prominent…

13 years ago

Dennis Ritchie, Creator Of C And Unix, Dies Aged 70

Dennis Ritchie, creator of the C language and Unix, has died after a long illness, aged 70

13 years ago

Our Readers Trust Open Source

Two out of three readers use open source, but some of you don't trust it. Next: choose a tablet for…

13 years ago

Microsoft Adopts Apache Hadoop For Data Analytics

Open source Apache Hadoop to become Microsoft's Windows Azure and Server big data analyser

13 years ago

Red Hat Openly Commits To AMQP Messaging

Red Hat emphasises its support for the open-source Advanced Message Queuing Protocol

13 years ago

Cabinet Office Approves Bristol’s Open Source Plans

The government's cyber security arm has given Bristol council the go-ahead to use open source software

13 years ago

Oracle OpenWorld Sees NetBeans 7.1 Beta

Oracle has delivered a beta version of its enhanced NetBeans integrated development environment

13 years ago

OpenStack Foundation Breaks Corporate Ties

The OpenStack cloud standards body will become an fully autonomous foundation in 2012

13 years ago

Teradata Merges Big Data Into Warehouse Appliance

Teradata Data Warehouse Appliance 2690 triples the data storage processing capacity of its predecessor

13 years ago

Nokia Developing Low-End Linux Platform

Fresh from dumping MeeGo, Nokia is now developing another Linux-based platform for low-end smartphones

13 years ago

Bristol Council’s Open Source Push Hits Security Buffers

The open source move by Bristol City Council has been struggling over government concerns about security

13 years ago