Open Source

Novell Confirms Acquisition Offer From Hedge Fund

The software networking company reports that Elliott Associates of New York sent a letter to its board of directors offering…

15 years ago

eWEEK Europe Offers Google Nexus One Before UK Launch

Prize Draw: eWEEK Europe is giving an unlocked Google Nexus One phone to a newsletter subscriber this month, before the…

15 years ago

Android And iPhone Users Share Similar App Tastes

A new report from AdMob has found remarkable similarities between users of the iPhone and Android smartphone, the latter tending…

15 years ago

Alex – Pricey But Simple?

A million people could come online with a laptop as simple as Alex, says Andy Hudson. But ease of use…

15 years ago

Oracle Dismisses Death Of OpenSolaris Reports

Oracle says it is not killing off the freely down-loadable community version of Sun's Unix-based Solaris enterprise operating system anytime…

15 years ago

Review: OpenOffice.org 3.2 Offers Modest Improvements

Version 3.2 of the open source OpenOffice.org productivity suite delivers a handful of file format compatibility enhancements alongside continued gains…

15 years ago

Apache HTTP Web Server Turns 15

The Apache HTTP Web Server is celebrating its fifteenth birthday following its launch way back in the 1990s

15 years ago

Amazon Makes Pay-Out To Microsoft Over Linux Patents

The agreement is seen by commentators as another example of Microsoft applying pressure over patents it claims are violated by…

15 years ago

Google Earth Available On Android Mobile

Google Earth has been made available for Android, a move that could boost adoption of the application

15 years ago

Alex Laptop Aims To Make Computing Easy

Users who can't get on with other systems are being offered a simplified Linux-based laptop called Alex

15 years ago

Microsoft Sponsoring, Speaking At Open Source Show

Microsoft will be active at the Open Source Business Conference, acting as a sponsor and providing a keynote speaker

15 years ago

The Linux Box To Push Ubuntu In US

The Linux Box has announced a partnership with Canonical Ltd. whereby The Linux Box will market the Ubuntu Linux operating…

15 years ago

MWC: Adobe Unveils AIR For Mobile Devices

Adobe has announced the beta release of Flash Player 10.1 and unveiled Adobe AIR on mobile devices at Mobile World…

15 years ago

MWC: Symbian Foundation Shows Off New S^3 Platform

The Symbian Foundation has unveiled the Symbian^3 platform, eleven days after it made the source code freely available to developers

15 years ago

MWC: Samsung Launches Bada-Based Wave Smartphone

Samsung has joined the growing number of open source-based mobile handsets after it launched the Wave smartphone, which runs the…

15 years ago

MWC: Nokia And Intel Team Up For New Linux Mobile OS

Another day, another new mobile operating system. This time Intel and Nokia announced they would merge Moblin and Maemo to…

15 years ago

eWEEK’s Top 25 Technologies Of The Decade

From virtualisation to Linux to the Apple iPhone, eWEEK names the products, applications and technologies of the last decade that…

15 years ago

MWC: Microsoft’s Slice of Mobile OS Sector Shrinks

New figures have shown that Microsoft's share of the mobile operating system market in the US has fallen by nearly…

15 years ago

NHS Pages Novell For Cloud Workload Management

The NHS has expanded its networking deal with Novell, which will now provide workload management as well as security for…

15 years ago

Microsoft And British Library Develop Open Source Research Tool

Updated: The British Library's new collaboration tool is based on Microsoft's Codeplex technology, but free software campaigners question the openness…

15 years ago

Linux Founder Endorses Nexus One Smartphone

The creator of the Linux operating system, Linus Torvalds, has backed the Nexus One after he used the device for…

15 years ago

Symbian Seeks To Win Developer Mindshare

Following the news today that Symbian has gone open source, eWEEK Europe questions its strategy group leader John Forsyth about…

15 years ago

Symbian OS Confirmed As Fully Open Source

Fours months ahead of schedule, the Symbian Foundation has made the source code of its mobile operating system freely available…

15 years ago

Google Chrome Tablet Concept Emerges

A Google-related site has shown concepts for a tablet based on the Chrome OS,  which Google supporters believe will beat…

15 years ago

Firefox Mobile Arrives On Nokia Smartphones

Mozilla has confirmed that a mobile version of its open-source web browser, Firefox, is now available for some Nokia smartphones

15 years ago

Oracle Finally Completes Sun Acquisition

With just hours to spare before an official announcement, Oracle has completed its multi billion dollar purchase of Sun Microsystems

15 years ago

Government To Slash IT Costs With Open Source, Green Tech

The government's new IT strategy could cut sector spending by £3.2bn a year, but open source experts remain unconvinced about…

15 years ago

EC Gives Blessing To Oracle Takeover Of Sun

It was good news for Larry Ellison after Oracle finally gained approval from the European Commission over its acquisition of…

15 years ago

$100 Laptop Project Recruiting Haiti Volunteers

The earthquake-hit country is just one of the destinations where the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) organisation wants to send…

15 years ago

Oracle Announces Meeting On Sun Acquisition

Oracle is now confident enough that the European Commission will finally sanction its acquisition of Sun Microsystems that it has…

15 years ago