Open Source

Google Could Reap $10.5bn By Taking Android Proprietary

Google could generate big profits by imitating Apple's iPhone business, according to a Piper Jaffray analyst

13 years ago

Security Most Pressing Issue For Readers

Security concerns you more than broadband coverage and patents. Next up: Did you take work on holiday?

13 years ago

W3C Opens Up Web Standards Development Process

The World Wide Web Consortium has announced measures for developer participation in Web standardisation

13 years ago

Mozilla Offers Firefox 6.0 For User Download

Firefox users can now get their hands on Firefox 6.0, just two months after the arrival of version 5.0

13 years ago

Google Misdirection In Patent Spat Is Gamesmanship

Microsoft and Apple are using patents suits to bash Google. Google is hitting back in this colossal waste of time,…

13 years ago

Rackspace Adds Critical Sites Support For Enterprises

Mission critical Web applications can be supported and monitored 24x7 under Rackspace's latest service

13 years ago

Don’t Just Whine, Google: Oppose Software Patents!

Google has complained about "bogus" patents used against it. It should join the campaign against software patents, says Clint Boulton

13 years ago

Dell Joins Hadoop Crowd With Cloudera Partnership

Dell will add PowerEdge C servers, services and its vast channel and sales networks to Cloudera's software

13 years ago

Chinese Android App Stealthily Records Mobile Calls

An Android app from China can record and transmit phone conversations without the owner being aware

13 years ago

Google Exec Slams ‘Bogus’ Apple And Microsoft Patents

A Google executive has lambasted Apple, Microsoft and Oracle for allegedly plotting against Android

13 years ago

A Million Users Hit By Android Malware In 2011

Android phone users are regularly being hit by numerous malware varieties, according to a Lookout report

13 years ago

Chrome 13 Stabilises For Launch With New Features

Google's Chrome 13 browser declared stable with Instant Pages, print preview, better Omnibox and bug fixes

13 years ago

DoJ Wades In To Android Patent Attacks

Microsoft and Apple are being questioned about Nortel's former wireless patents and Android-bashing

13 years ago

Is Apple Trying To Beat Android… Or Destroy It?

Apple and Google may need each other, but Clint Boulton believes Steve Jobs wants to kill Android to settle scores…

13 years ago

WANdisco Adds Context To Apache Subversion

WANdisco offers uberSVN and its app store to unify the software Apache Subversion development process

13 years ago

LibreOffice Gets Enterprise Release

The Document Foundation has put out what it calls the first version of LibreOffice that's ready for business

13 years ago

Apache Developers: Java 7 Contains Bugs

Java 7 holds errors that can cause virtual machines to crash or create bugs in apps, say Apache devs

13 years ago

IT Trade Body Disputes ‘Heavy-Handed’ PASC Report

Intellect says that allegations of an industry cartel in the recent PASC report are "completely unfounded"

13 years ago

Google Emails Come Home To Roost In Oracle Java Suit

Potentially damaging emails could make it hard for Google if the patent lawsuit against Oracle goes to court

13 years ago

Oracle Java 7 Looks To Community For Innovation

Oracle has released the first major Java release in five years, bringing a host of incremental enhancements

13 years ago

Dell’s Open-Source OpenStack Cloud Platform

Dell is launching an open-source cloud computing platform based on OpenStack with Dell's Crowbar installer

13 years ago

Microsoft Renews SUSE Linux Deal

Now owned by Attachmate, SUSE has renewed the deal Microsoft signed with former parent Novell

13 years ago

Limited Google+ Still Growing Exponentially

Google+ user metrics show 1.8 million visits last week, with over half the traffic from Google and Gmail

13 years ago

Google Is Shutting Down Its Online Labs

To focus and prioritise its product development better, Google is closing its experimental projects site

13 years ago

Mozilla Calms Enterprise Fears With Working Group

Mozilla is re-establishing an Enterprise User Working Group to spike worries about enterprise deployments

13 years ago

Xamarin Strikes Mono Deal With SUSE

Xamarin has taken over Mono and will launch a .NET-based mobile development platform

13 years ago

Cloud Vendor Lock-Ins Lock Out Secure Practices

Cloud providers are dragging their heels on the subject of federated, open cloud, impacting heavily on customer security, claims Eric…

13 years ago

IBM Donates Lotus Symphony Code To OpenOffice

IBM is donating the source code of its Office suite (Lotus Symphony) to the OpenOffice project

13 years ago

Google Chrome OS Hacked Using ScratchPad App

A security researcher used Chrome OS ScratchPad to show how permissions can be abused to steal data

13 years ago

Bringing On the Bling With Genuitec’s IDE

Genuitec and Skyway deliver MyEclipse Bling, an integrated development environment for IBM WebSphere

13 years ago