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08/07/2008 05:10 PM
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IBM Urges Better Linux Design, More Business Focus
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NewsFactor - Years ago, the Linux open-source operating system seemed ready to offer a nonproprietary alternative to Microsoft Windows. But "Linux on the desktop" never took off.
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08/07/2008 10:33 AM
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Mozilla Announces Snowl Messaging Project
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PC Magazine - The developers of Firefox have unveiled an experimental project, Snowl, designed to gather all your inbound communications, whether they're in the form of email, RSS, Twitter, or social network updates.
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08/06/2008 10:07 PM
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IBM Touts 'Microsoft-Free' Alliance with Linux Vendors
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NewsFactor - IBM is joining forces with Linux OS vendors Novell, Red Hat and Canonical, the distributor of Ubuntu, in a global effort to deliver what they tout as a "Microsoft-free" computing experience.
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08/06/2008 08:59 PM
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Linux on Servers? Great. On PCs? Not So Much
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PC Magazine - PC OEMs offered a halfhearted endorsement of the Linux desktop on Wednesday, claiming that the operating system was mainly suited for low-cost appliances and PCs designed for education.
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08/06/2008 05:31 PM
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Mozilla's Aurora Shows Concepts for Future Browsers
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NewsFactor - Like cars, buildings and airplanes, browsers can have concept models. That's the idea behind Aurora, a new "concept browser" from the Mozilla Foundation.
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08/05/2008 07:30 PM
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AT&T Jumps Into Cloud Computing With Synaptic Hosting
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TechWeb - Intelligent Enterprise - Synaptic Hosting will allow companies to host Windows Server or Linux client-server applications and Web apps in AT&T's data centers, rather than in their own data centers.
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08/04/2008 07:28 PM
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LiMo Adds New Members and Mobile Technologies
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NewsFactor - The Linux Mobile Foundation has announced that 11 new companies have joined the global consortium for the open-source mobile platform.
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08/04/2008 05:14 PM
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Linux Mobile Adds Products, Members In Bid To Match Symbian
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TechWeb - InformationWeek - The group announced Monday that it has signed 11 new member companies in recent weeks and said that the number of mobile devices running the LiMo OS now totals 21.
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08/04/2008 11:00 AM
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Best of Open Source Software Awards 2008
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InfoWorld - If the phrase "open source software" continues to conjure images of impassioned programmers selflessly collaborating for the common good, it may be because, even as commercial interests are behind many of the most prominent projects, the results are no less inspired ??? and typically no less free.
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08/01/2008 05:30 PM
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Firefox Closer to Supporting Open-source Video Codec
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PC World - Mozilla developers are edging closer to releasing a new version of Firefox that could drive the use of open-source software to...
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07/31/2008 06:40 PM
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Alfresco Wants to Stand in for SharePoint Server
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PC World - Open-source content management vendor Alfresco can now stand in for SharePoint server.
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07/30/2008 11:15 PM
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Cloud Computing Dream Team
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TechWeb - I'm still sorting through the last bits of my OSCON trip notes, but one striking conversation I had was with Byrne Reese of SixApart about people who violate the end-user licensing of for-pay editions of OSS apps. Do we sic the open source cops on them? I'd like to think not.
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07/30/2008 05:32 PM
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Firefox Alpha Improves the AwesomeBar
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PC Magazine - Though it's been less than a month since Firefox 3's blast-off into the Internet and a software download record, Mozilla developers have already distributed a very early preview of the next upgrade to the increasingly popular browser, code-named Shiretoko.
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07/29/2008 06:15 PM
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Inside The OSCON 2008 Open Source Conference
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TechWeb - InformationWeek - We round up our coverage of the open source OSCON 2008 conference. Don't miss Q&As with Ubuntu's Mark Shuttleworth and The Linux Foundation's Jim Zemlin. Check out the photo gallery, too.
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07/29/2008 01:00 PM
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Mobile computing now an open source driver
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InfoWorld - Mobile computing has become a dominant focus in the open source arena, a theme on prominent display at a major open source technology convention last week.
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07/28/2008 11:05 PM
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Facebook Hires Mozilla Engineering VP Mike Schroepfer
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TechWeb - InformationWeek - Schroepfer brings with him years of experience as CTO of Sun's data center automation business, not to mention his role overseeing the launches of Firefox 1.5, 2, and 3.
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07/28/2008 05:50 PM
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Facebook Poaches Mozilla's Engineering VP
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PC World - Facebook is boosting its engineering team by hiring a high-ranking Mozilla official.
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07/28/2008 11:00 AM
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RealNetworks Patches Four Critical Bugs in Multimedia Player
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PC World - RealNetworks has issued four critical patches for several versions of its RealPlayer running on Windows, Linux and Apple's Mac...
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07/27/2008 12:35 AM
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SourceForge Award Winners Announced
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PC World - Open source software projects took center stage at a ceremony to honor the best and brightest of free software.
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07/25/2008 11:40 PM
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Symbian Talks Open-Source Strategy
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TechWeb - InformationWeek - Vendor neutrality and greater transparency will increase adoption of the soon to be open mobile platform, executives point out.
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