Open Source

HTC Sets Gingerbread Desire Timetable

After some confusion, HTC is rolling out the long-awaited Gingerbread update for the Desire by the end of July

13 years ago

Toyota Looks To Linux For Car Infotainment

Toyota has joined the Linux Foundation because of the importance of open source for in-car systems

13 years ago

Government ICT Strategy Slated For Lack Of Targets

A Public Accounts Committee report said the Government's new ICT strategy has 'insufficient' details

13 years ago

AVM Denies GPL Violation Claims

German router maker AVM says GPL campaigners are backing software which would break the Fritz!Box

13 years ago

Chrome Browser Set To Pass Firefox

Google's Chrome browser has attained 20 percent market share, according to some counts

13 years ago

Oracle Seeks £1.6bn From Google Over Android Clash

Oracle is looking for Google to cough up £1.6bn in its battle over whether Android infringes its Java patents

13 years ago

Archos G9 250GB Android Tablet: First Look

The Archos G9 Android tablet's power gives multimedia performance for consumers, but might offer value for business users

13 years ago

Government Names Open Source Guru As Tech Advisor

Open source enthusiast Liam Maxell has been appointed as technology adviser to the Cabinet Office

13 years ago

Google Chrome To Challenge Skype With WebRTC

Google Chrome is set to get real-time voice and video chat tools in the near future, thanks to WebRTC, says…

13 years ago

Amazon Tablet Hinted To Make Autumn Appearance

Amazon is said to be hoping to sell a cool four million of its rumoured tablet devices during 2011

13 years ago

Nokia Finalises Symbian Handover To Accenture

Nokia has finalised the agreement to hand over the Symbian operating system to services giant Accenture

13 years ago

DNS-Based Malware Protection Service From OpenDNS

The OpenDNS malware protection service will detect and block all DNS requests to known malicious servers

13 years ago

There Is No Android Tablet Market – Here Is Why

Android tablets lack three things, says Clint Boulton: developers, users and the chance to make decent money from apps

13 years ago

Router Maker AVM Claims Copyright On GPL Code

AVM, maker of the Fritz!Box routers, is trying to stop a software maker altering Linux based free software

13 years ago

Oracle Won’t Give An Inch On Google Android

What is the cost to Google of offering Android free to 100 million-plus users? Oracle reckons billions of dollars, says…

13 years ago

Samsung Series 5 Chromebook: Review

The Samsung Series 5 Chromebook is a fine cloud client - but users may find it hard to adapt to…

13 years ago

Apache Server Cloud Content Delivery Is All Go

Apache Software Foundation’s Traffic Server 3.0 serves terabytes of data for large-scale cloud deployments

13 years ago

Calxeda Forms Partner Program For ARM Servers

Calxeda has created a partner program to help push its ARM-based server processors to the industry

13 years ago

Google Sued For Chromebook Trademark Infringement

ISYS, a Chrome OS proponent, has slapped a trademark infringement suit on Google over the Chromebook name

13 years ago

Wave Developer Slams Google’s Creaking Dev Tools

Dhanji Prasanna, a former Wave developer at Google, loved his job but really hated using 'outmoded' tools

13 years ago

Google Adds App Compatibility Check To Webstore

Android Market Webstore users can now check to see if an app will run on their particular smartphone

13 years ago

Microsoft Office Still Rules With Readers

Despite the rise of the cloud, readers still want Microsoft Office. Next, tell us about your storage needs

13 years ago

Microsoft Promises Not To Open Skype To Russian Spooks

Microsoft denies careless talk that suggested the Russian secret service might get access to Skype encryption

13 years ago

Russian Reverse Engineer Praises Skype

Good products can't stay proprietary for long, says Efim Bushmanov, the Russian who published an open source version of Skype's…

13 years ago

Open Source Researcher Reverse Engineers Skype

A researcher from Russia plans to reverse-engineer Skype, and has posted his source code online

13 years ago

Asus Releases Open Source Ubuntu Netbooks

Asus is reafirming its commitment to open source with the news that it will ship netbooks running Ubuntu

13 years ago

Patent Site Broadens Access To Review Process

The UK's Intellectual Property Office is trialling a social networking-style system for improving patent quality

13 years ago

OpenOffice.org Project Moves To Apache

Oracle has donated the source code for OpenOffice to Apache in a surprise move

13 years ago

Nokia Boss Pledges Symbian Support Until 2016

Stephen Elop has pledged to continue supporting Symbian until at least 2016, but said nothing about MeeGo

13 years ago