Open Source

Google Takes $5M Hit In Bedrock Linux Patent Case

Google must pay Bedrock for infringing on Linux core patents which may also hit Android and other distributions

14 years ago

Phones4u To Ship Samsung Galaxy S II On 27 April

Release date of Samsung Galaxy S II Android super-phone brought forward, but only for Phones4u

14 years ago

Yahoo Is Newest Member Of Linux Foundation

Yahoo has announced that it has joined the Linux Foundation to better support the Linux community

14 years ago

Android v iPhone: Not A Fight To The Death

If you think either Android or iPhone can eliminate the competition, you are missing the point, says Clint Boulton

14 years ago

Google Faces Android Complaints In South Korea

Two companies are complaining that Google is blocking their mobile search apps on Android

14 years ago

Oracle Shifts OpenOffice.org To Full Open Source

Oracle has said it will turn the OpenOffice.org office suite into a fully community-based project

14 years ago

Turnkey Ubuntu-Based Linux for Amazon Cloud: Review

The Turnkey Linux service runs on Amazon Web Services and is good for test driving cloud apps

14 years ago

Ailing MeeGo Finds Major Chinese Backing

China's Tencent has announced an interest in helping Intel bring MeeGo to fruition

14 years ago

WordPress Admits Hackers Stole Source Code

Hackers have stolen “sensitive bits” of source code after accessing several WordPress.com servers

14 years ago

Regular Patching Beats Cyber Threats, Says Expert

A security expert has highlighted the importance of patches to keep systems safe from cyber-attacks

14 years ago

Red Hat Preparing Makara Cloud Application Platform

Linux provider will launch cloud application-building platform during Red Hat Summit next month in Boston

14 years ago

Gartner Predicts Android Tablet Success

Google's Android will grow its market share to 40 percent by 2015 due to sheer exposure, Gartner has found

14 years ago

Nokia Faces Symbian Blacklash On Eve Of Event

Nokia's treatment of the Symbian mobile operating system has resulted in some heavy online criticism

14 years ago

Asus Releases Honeycomb Source Code For Transformer

As Asus' Eee Transformer goes on sale; it brings Honeycomb source code that Google hasn't released

14 years ago

Facebook Open Sources Green Data Centre Hardware

Facebook shared specs for its custom built low-energy servers, but Greenpeace is not impressed

14 years ago

NEC HPC Cluster Unlocks Universal Secrets

Albert Einstein Institute puts NEC high performance cluster to work on the massive forces shaping the universe

14 years ago

Nokia Calls Up Mysterious Symbian Launch Event

Nokia is reaffirming its support for Symbian at a London event, April 12, despite its Microsoft WP7 commitment

14 years ago

Novell Ships Mono for Android

Novell has boosted its mobile offerings with the delivery of Mono for Android toolset for developers

14 years ago

SugarCRM Provides Integration With IBM Applications

SugarCRM has announced integration with IBM WebSphere, Cognos analytics and LotusLive social networking

14 years ago

Tighter Android Control Will Benefit WP7, Apple iOS

Google's Android control plan could work in favour of Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 and Apple's iOS, says Nicholas Kolakowski

14 years ago

Android Malware Highlights Smartphones Risks

The very freedom that makes Android-based devices so attractive also makes them a malware threat, says Wayne Rash

14 years ago

Analyst Refutes IDC Windows Phone 7 Prediction

ABI Research has disagreed with IDC's prediction that Windows Phone 7 is set to become a leading mobile OS

14 years ago

Mozilla Launches Speedy Firefox 4 For Android

Mozilla has made a mobile version of its Firefox 4 web browser available for Android-based devices

14 years ago

DAFT Investigations, iPad Frypans: April Fools!

Pointy-fingered smartphone users, green-fingered data centre managers. April Fools, or true?

14 years ago

Symbian Source Code Uploaded By Nokia

Nokia announces its transfer of the Symbian platform source code to the open community

14 years ago

Critics Slam Lack Of Android Honeycomb Apps

With Motorola's Xoom and Asus' Transformer due to bring Android 3.0 tablets to the UK, where are the apps?

14 years ago

NASA Open Source Summit Offers Food For Thought

The US government needs to freshen up its IT apparatus and, with budgets being tight, open source looks like a…

14 years ago

OpenSUSE 11.4 Updates Open-Source Apps: Review

OpenSUSE 11.4 is a modest release, marked by a raft of newly updated open-source applications and components

14 years ago

Government Cost-Cutting Plan Embraces Open Source

Cabinet minister Francis Maude says his new ICT strategy will save the government millions

14 years ago

HP’s Apotheker Reveals Roadmap Milestones Up Ahead

HP CEO says webOS is a legitimate alternative to Windows because it can run all devices across the spectrum

14 years ago