Open Source

MWC: Samsung Updates Galaxy Tablets And Phones

Samsung opened Mobile World Congress with the big-screen Galaxy Tab 10.1 Android Honeycomb tablet, and the enterprise-friendly Galaxy S II…

14 years ago

Cisco Telepresence Protocol Adopted By Polycom

Polycom is adding Cisco's Telepresence Interoperability Protocol standard to its UC Intelligent Core platform

14 years ago

Gartner Says Symbian Still Leads Smartphone Race

Gartner research has found that Symbian is still the best selling smartphone OS, ahead of Android

14 years ago

Firefox 4 Beta Gains Do Not Track Option

Mozilla has added the 'Do Not Track' option it touted last month to ensure browsing privacy for users

14 years ago

Open Source For Competitive Advantage Survey Claims

Adopting open-source software not only reduces costs but can deliver competitive advantage, Gartner says

14 years ago

Stable Debian 6.0 Squeezes Everything In For Launch

The latest operating system release from the open source Debian Project includes over 10,000 new applications

14 years ago

Canonical And Cisco Welcome OpenStack’s Bexar Releases

Canonical and Cisco join the open-source OpenStack federated cloud initiative as new releases arrive

14 years ago

EC Renews Contract For Microsoft Software

Open source fans will be disappointed as the European Commission buys more from Microsoft

14 years ago

Dell Partners With Canonical For Ubuntu Clouds

Dell and Canonical have teamed up to offer Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud for businesses

14 years ago

Android Overtakes Symbian In Smartphone Race

Android is now the top selling smartphone operating system, says research from Canalys

14 years ago

Nokia Boss Hints At Android Or Phone 7 Move

Stephen Elop says Nokia may need a new ecosystem... Android, or Windows Phone 7?

14 years ago

Android Manager Unhappy With App Purchases

Google's Android head is not happy with the progress of purchases for paid Apps in the Android Market

14 years ago

Code Undamaged As Fedora Site Is Hacked

An attacker accessed Fedora servers but apparently failed to compromise any software packages or servers

14 years ago

Specsavers Ditches Open Source For Google Apps

Open source fans may not have seen it coming, but Specsavers has ditched its open source email system

14 years ago

Nokia N8 Sees 15 Percent Price Slash

Nokia has cut the N8's price by £64 to compete with its own C7

14 years ago

Breakaway Group Launches LibreOffice 3.3 Suite

The group that broke away from OpenOffice.org has launched its first version of the LibreOffice suite

14 years ago

Mozilla Plans ‘Do Not Track’ Option To Aid Privacy

Mozilla plans to develop a privacy feature that prevents advertisers from tracking Firefox users' browsing habits

14 years ago

Android Froyo At Last Rolled Out To Samsung Galaxy S Vibrant Phones

Samsung is finally releasing Android 2.2 out to the Vibrant smartphone, following delays

14 years ago

Open Source Groups Call For Novell Patents Inquiry

The OSI and FSF have complained that selling Novell's patents could terminally threaten the future of Linux

14 years ago

Patent Evidence Grows Against Google’s Android

Oracle's claim that Google broke Sun's Java patents is backed by code, says an expert

14 years ago

Apple COO Cook Dismisses Tablet Rivals

Apple COO Tim Cook has dismissed the company's tablet rivals and laid into Windows and Android

14 years ago

Samsung Denies Charge Claims For Android 2.2 Update

Samsung has denied rumours that it is charging carriers for the Android 2.2 update

14 years ago

Wiki Boss Slams Apple App Threat To Web Openness

Wales blasted Apple's stranglehold on its apps market as the biggest threat to diversity and openness on the net

14 years ago

Android Honeycomb Successor Mooted For May

The next build of Android following Honeycomb (or Android 2.4 or 3.0) is slated to arrive on phones this summer

14 years ago

Apache Launches Updated Open Source Database

The next generation Cassandra open-source database has been announced by The Apache Software Foundation

14 years ago

Novell: Community Wants OpenSUSE Foundation

The openSUSE Linux version is going to a foundation because users demanded it, says Novell's community manager Jos Poortvliet

14 years ago

Microsoft-Backed Consortium Still After Novell Patents

Microsoft, Apple, Oracle and EMC's consortium, CPTN Holdings, is apparently still intent on acquiring 882 Novell patents

14 years ago

Concerns Raised Over OpenSUSE Spin-Off

Linux version OpenSUSE could move to its own foundation, in Attachmate's acquisition of Novell

14 years ago

Android Gingerbread Spotted On Apple iPhone

Developers have demonstrated Android 2.3, commonly known as Gingerbread, running on an iPhone 3G

14 years ago

Google Reveals Android SMS Trouble Was Two Bugs

Google has fixes ready for two separate SMS bugs in Android, which it says only appeared rarely

14 years ago