Oct 29th, 2008 · Ten years ago, Peter Thoeny started the TWiki wiki engine. It attracted many contributors at twiki.org. About a year ago, Thoeny founded the startup twiki.net. On 27th October, twiki.net locked all the other contributors out of twiki.org in an event Thoeny …
see also: engineering · community · venture · Open Source · startups · wiki · IRC
Oct 29th, 2008 · Ten years ago, Peter Thoeny started the TWiki wiki engine. It attracted many contributors at twiki.org. About a year ago, Thoeny founded the startup twiki.net. On 27th October, twiki.net locked all the other contributors out of twiki.org in an event Thoeny …
see also: engineering · community · venture · Open Source · startups · wiki · IRC
Oct 16th, 2008 · Want to see the biggest and most in-depth review of the T-Mobile G1 Google Android device from a person who has been using it for a week? Check out over 260 photos and 5 videos of the device and just about every screen of the Google Android OS. Find out …
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Oct 16th, 2008 · Want to see the biggest and most in-depth review of the T-Mobile G1 Google Android device from a person who has been using it for a week? Check out over 260 photos and 5 videos of the device and just about every screen of the Google Android OS. Find out …
see also: video · Google · photos · mobile · Open Source · keyboard · Android
Oct 16th, 2008 · Want to see the biggest and most in-depth review of the T-Mobile G1 Google Android device from a person who has been using it for a week? Check out over 260 photos and 5 videos of the device and just about every screen of the Google Android OS. Find out …
see also: video · Google · photos · mobile · Open Source · keyboard · Android
Oct 3rd, 2008 · Open source advocate Bruce Perens writes in Datamation about a major court victory for open source: 'An appeals court has erased most of the doubt around Open Source licensing, permanently, in a decision that was extremely favorable toward projects like …
see also: Linux · protection · software · proprietary · licensing · Victory · Open Source
Oct 1st, 2008 · Time-shifting via Tivo changed the way we consume television programming. Now, Open Source enters the fray. Roku, the streaming-media set-top box has decided to Open Source its software. Roku had received praise for its streaming solution, and was in …
see also: solution · software · products · Tivo · consumer · media · television
Sep 30th, 2008 · Time-shifting via Tivo changed the way we consume television programming. Now, Open Source enters the fray. Roku, the streaming-media set-top box has decided to Open Source its software. Roku had received praise for its streaming solution, and was in …
see also: solution · software · products · Tivo · consumer · media · television
Sep 29th, 2008 · The jQuery blog today announced that 'Both Microsoft and Nokia are taking the major step of adopting jQuery as part of their official application development platform.' So the open-source javascript framework will be shipped with Visual Studio and ASP.NET …
see also: OSS · blog · framework · Microsoft · eWeek · platform · licensing
Sep 22nd, 2008 · The Linux Standard Base is the grand attempt to create a binary-level interface that application developers can use to create software which will run on any distribution of Linux. Theodore Tso, who helps maintain the LSB, talked recently with O'Reilly …
see also: Linux · software · products · library · desktop · distribution · community
Sep 19th, 2008 · Over 150 man-years of work were added to the Open Source community today when Zarafa decided to put their successful Exchange server replacement under GPLv3. This is not just the typical mail-server-that-works-with-Outlook, it is the whole package including …
see also: Linux · servers · package · community · Open Source · native · binaries
Sep 16th, 2008 · There isn't a person writing code in this country who is not impacted by US intellectual property laws. I think that it is safe to say, that not all coders have a strong understanding of just what those laws are, let alone what they mean. Stepping into …
see also: laws · Tech · country · programmer · Open Source · lawyer · Coders
Sep 15th, 2008 · There isn't a person writing code in this country who is not impacted by US intellectual property laws. I think that it is safe to say, that not all coders have a strong understanding of just what those laws are, let alone what they mean. Stepping into …
see also: laws · Tech · country · programmer · Open Source · lawyer · Coders
Sep 12th, 2008 · ruphus13 writes with some more news for people foretelling the death of VMware. Sun has open sourced their xVM server, their bare-metal hypervisor virtualization solution. What used to once be the cash cow for VMware is now coming under increased threat, …
see also: servers · solution · service · Commercial · download · company · community
Jul 27th, 2008 · VIA has published three programming guides that total 800 pages in length and cover their PadLock, CX700, and VX800/820 technologies. The VIA PadLock provides a random number generator, an advanced cryptography engine, and RSA algorithm computations. …
see also: Linux · products · computer · engineering · strategy · mobile · founder
Jul 25th, 2008 · According to a somewhat jaw-dropping story in The Register, it appears that Microsoft has performed a trifecta of geek-scaring feats: They have joined the Apache Software Foundation as a Platinum member(at $100K USD a year), submitted LGPL-licensed patches …
see also: Linux · OSS · Microsoft · Windows · interactivity · community · Windows Server
Jul 14th, 2008 · Adeona is the first Open Source system for tracking the location of your lost or stolen laptop that does not rely on a proprietary, central service. This means that you can install Adeona on your laptop and go — there's no need to rely on a single …
see also: service · Commercial · proprietary · laptop · Open Source · privacy · agents
Jul 7th, 2008 · Last week I had the rare opportunity to see an emerging virtual world called Wonderland, the product of an open source project, Project Wonderland, sponsored by Sun Microsystems. The tour was given by Nicole Yankelovich, Principal Investigator of the …
see also: world · products · computer · distance · organization · collaborative · Open Source
Jul 7th, 2008 · Might Squirrel noted a perfectly mediocre story to chat about on a boring post holiday weekend monday. This one is a look at 5 ways microsoft could change After Gates. From accepting Open Source to serious interoperability work, there are definitely 5 …
see also: gold · Microsoft · Open Source · holiday · interoperability · squirrel · carRead
Jul 4th, 2008 · Twitter has had a lot of public woes with Open Source technologies like Ruby on Rails, and a lot of alternatives have sprung up in the micro-blogging world, but no one has managed to dislodge twitter in its usage or appeal. Now, an Open Source alternative …
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