Open Source

Facebook And Partners Establish Group To Promote Open Source Projects

TODO isn’t yet another foundation, will help others adopt open source software

10 years ago

GSMA: Two In Three Mobile Devices Will Be Smartphones By 2020

GSMA predicts low cost smartphones and increased availability of LTE will fuel smartphone demand

10 years ago

NHS Develops Backbone With Upgraded IT

The NHS Spine is used by more than 20,000 organisations that provide health care across England

10 years ago

Open Xchange Launches Simple Email Encryption

OX Guard, part of the OX App Suite, helps users protect their messages with a single click

10 years ago

Tizen-Powered Samsung Gear S Comes With Curved Screen And 3G

New Samsung Gear S hopes direct voice calls and SMS will fend off the threat from the iWatch

10 years ago

Mozilla Launches £20 Firefox OS Smartphone In India

Intex Cloud FX has a 3.5-inch screen, a 1GHz processor and 128MB of RAM

10 years ago

New Linux Certification Exam To Meet Skills Demand

The Linux Foundation wants to expand global talent pool of Linux professionals with new certification and exam

10 years ago

SanDisk, Seagate And Western Digital Join The Linux Foundation

The new members will help Linux developers with money, expertise

10 years ago

Alfresco To Drive Growth After Funding Injection

Open source enterprise content specialist Alfresco gets £27 million to power international growth

10 years ago

Hacked US Hospital Operator Thought To Be Victim Of Heartbleed

TrustedSec says hackers got into Community Health Systems database through unpatched Juniper equipement

10 years ago

Munich Looks To Switch Back To Windows

Fresh from the completion of its Linux migration, the City of Munich, under a new mayor, is now considering scrapping…

10 years ago

eBay Working On Plan To Accept Bitcoin – Report

Bitcoins could be about to accepted by Braintree, an eBay-owned PayPal subsidiary

10 years ago

Hacker Roots Silent Circle’s Blackphone At DefCon

SIlent Circle doubts whether the hack could take place in the wild, but still thanks 'Justin Case' for his contribution…

10 years ago

UK Entries Win First F1 Connectivity Innovation Prize Challenge

Two data solutions from the UK win the first round of Tata Communications' F1 Connectivity Innovation Prize, which aims to…

10 years ago

Critical WordPress Plugin Bug Was Ignored By Developers

Any website using the Custom Contact Forms plugin should apply a patch as soon as possible

10 years ago

IT Life: Taking On Development Donkey Work

Ross Mason invented Mule to make development easier. As strategy VP at Mulesoft, he says don't taken anything for granted

10 years ago

Mozilla Admits Developer Password Breach

Red faces and embarrassment all round at Mozilla after a serious breach of developer details

10 years ago

Samsung Profits Fall, Despite Android Domination

Samsung profit falls, as research suggests Android is on the verge of turning smartphone platforms into a one-horse race

10 years ago

Mozilla Appoints Chris Beard As Permanent CEO

Mozilla resolves its leadership troubles as interim CEO Chris Beard is appointed permanent chief exec

10 years ago

CoreOS Linux Distribution Pushed To Stable Release

The new Linux version CoreOS is now production ready after being released to the stable release channel

10 years ago

Samsung Delays Launch Of First Tizen Smartphone

Fresh doubts about the future of Tizen are raised by latest delay, which Samsung says is to allow for the…

10 years ago

New Firefox For Android Brings Customised Home Pages

The mobile browser gets unique homepage add-ons, new APIs

10 years ago

IT Life: How Databases Will Change The World

Open source databases that meet business challenges will produce great changes, says Patrik Saller

10 years ago

Secure Linux Distribution Found To Contain A Privacy-Busting Flaw

TAILS Linux, used by Edward Snowden to communicate with journalists, is patching holes in one of its network overlays

10 years ago

Government Adopts Open Document Formats

The British government switches to the ODF document format, but Microsoft is not happy

10 years ago

“Catastrophic” Flaw In LibreSSL Found And Fixed

The random number generator in the library that's meant to replace OpenSSL was not really random

10 years ago

Raspberry Pi Gets More USB Ports With The Release Of Model B+

The new board doubles the number of USBs, adds more GPIO pins and support for external hard drives

10 years ago

IBM, Microsoft And Red Hat Back Google Kubernetes Container Project

Big players commit to Google's Kubernetes scheme for open source container management, taking virtualisation up a level

10 years ago

Metaswitch Contributes Virtualised Network Code To Open Source

Project Calico offers free, innovative virtual networking model based on IP addresses

10 years ago

AlienVault Updates Open Threat Exchange, Adds Free Tools

The open source threat intelligence platform can now scan log files to find compromised systems

10 years ago