Open Source

Google Withholds Android Honeycomb Source Code

Google is delaying the release of its Android Honeycomb source code as a quality control measure

14 years ago

Motorola’s Affair Should Be With Windows Phone

Android might not be enough for Motorola, say reports. Clint Boulton says it should consider a fling with Windows Phone…

14 years ago

Stallman: Only Victims Of Tyranny Should Use Facebook

Only victims of tyranny can justify use of Facebook says freedom activist Richard Stallman. He also spoke in favour of…

14 years ago

Open Source Data Tool For Analysing “Big Data”

Facebook scraper Pete Warden unveiled his answer to allow anyone to analyse Big Data on the cheap

14 years ago

Nokia Tablet Strategy Could Exclude Microsoft

Nokia may opt for MeeGo or Android rather than Windows or Windows Phone for its first tablet

14 years ago

Juniper Networks Joins Eclipse Foundation

Networking firm announces its membership of open source Eclipse Foundation with Junos access

14 years ago

Experts: Android May Violate Linux Rules

Google's approach to the Linux kernel with Android may be leaving it open to legal attack

14 years ago

Faster Linux Kernel Has Disaster Relief Mesh

The new Linux kernel has speed improvements but also has relevance for disaster relief teams

14 years ago

WebOS Will Be Running On All HP PCs In 2012

HP CEO Apotheker wants all HP computers to be able to run webOS, as well as Microsoft Office, by next…

14 years ago

Dell, Rackspace & Opscode Demo Bare Metal Magic

The companies provisioned an OpenStack compute cloud from bare metal hardware in one hour

14 years ago

Hackers Take Out Linux Security Mailing List

The members-only security mailing list 'Vendor-Sec' has been shut down after hackers damaged its server

14 years ago

Coraid’s New-Age DAS Throws Out SAN Storage

Coraid claims its AoE Layer 2 protocol offers a much simpler disk storage process than iSCSI or Fibre Channel

14 years ago

Nokia Delivers Qt Quick In Line With Roadmap

Developer fears may be quelled by Nokia's release of the Qt Quick framework for rapid app development

14 years ago

Chrome Climbs As Firefox Slips In Browser Wars

The Chrome browser has now reached 11 percent market share at the expense of Mozilla's Firefox

14 years ago

Asus Tablets Get April UK Launch Date

Asus is to launch a Windows 7 tablet and two Android slates in April, but these may not have 3G…

14 years ago

Mozilla Releases Last Firefox 4 Beta

Developers have released what is planned to be the final test version of the long-delayed Firefox 4

14 years ago

Stock Exchange Blames Data Dissemination For Outage

London traders lost valuable trading time after the London Stock Exchange experienced a five-hour outage

14 years ago

Government Wants Open Standards For IT Procurement

A Cabinet Office policy note has revealed the desire for open standards during IT procurement processes

14 years ago

Debian 6 Has A Few Rough Spots: Review

This latest release from the Debian project will play well in server deployments that draw on open-source components

14 years ago

OpenOffice.org 3.3 Is Uninspiring: Review

The open-source office-productivity suite appears doomed for mediocrity, next to TDF's LibreOffice

14 years ago

LibreOffice Pips OpenOffice.org To The Post: Review

This open-source office suite proves that forking is not always the kiss of death

14 years ago

Attachmate Merger Gets Novell Stockholders’ Blessing

Novell shareholders have approved the complex $2.2 billion acquisition by Attachmate and Longview

14 years ago

Intel On The Hunt For MeeGo Partners

Intel's boss continues to bang the MeeGo drum, and implied that Nokia's WP7 decision was influenced by money

14 years ago

MWC: Intel Demonstrates MeeGo OS On A Tablet – Video

Nokia may have sidelined MeeGo, but Intel still backs the panel-based mobile operating system

14 years ago

Intel Boss Bullish About MeeGo Despite Nokia

Intel CEO Paul Otellini is not letting Nokia's WP7 deal deflate his optimism about Meego's prospects

14 years ago

London Stock Exchange Moves To Linux Platform

Falling behind and under potential cyber-attack, LSE has made a move to Novell's open source SuSE Linux

14 years ago

Ingres VectorWise Database ‘Smashes’ Benchmark

A forthcoming version of Ingres' VectorWise analytic database has broken a benchmark record by a big margin

14 years ago

MWC: Wholesale Application Community Launches First Products

WAC, the operators' alternative to Google's app store, has launched its first apps and store fronts

14 years ago

MWC: Acer Launches Iconia Smart Phone

the Iconia Smart is a phone, but it's part of Acer's Iconia range of Android tablets - which also includes…

14 years ago

Sony Ericsson Launches Xperia Playstation Phone

Move along, business readers! The Android-based Xperia Play is a gamer's phone from Sony Ericsson

14 years ago