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  • Android's ascent in China might not elevate Google Wednesday, July 21, 2010 @ 6:08PMGoogle's Linux-based Android mobile platform is rapidly gaining traction around the world. Recent reports suggest that it is on a trajectory to become the dominant mobile operating system in China, a region with a large population of mobile Internet users and enormous growth potential. Although this may seem like an unambiguous victory for Google on the surface, the implications are actually not ...
  • Interview with Winston Damarillo, Morphlabs Wednesday, July 21, 2010 @ 8:09AMOne of Southern California's successful, serial entrepreneurs is Winston Damarillo, who founded Gluecode, which he sold to IBM in 2005. Earlier this month, his latest startup, El Segundo-based Morphlabs announced it had raised a Series B funding worth $5.5M. We thought we'd catch back up with Winston to hear about the Morphlabs. Winston, nice speaking with you again. What's Morphlabs? Winston ...
  • Analytics 'R' Us Friday, June 11, 2010 @ 7:43AMA growing recognition of the business benefits predictive analysis provides is positioning newcomer Revolution Analytics into a key role to help adopters of the R programing language migrate from legacy offerings. Until a recent funding infusion and a refocus of marketing goals, the startup did business under the name "Revolution Computing."
  • WebM Video Support on Track for Firefox 4 Thursday, June 10, 2010 @ 12:21PMFirefox 4 will have baked-in support for the open source WebM video format, and Mozilla has released the newest nightly builds of the WebM-capable browser.
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  • Google Adjusts WebM License Tuesday, June 8, 2010 @ 10:22AMWhen Google announced the initial release of WebM — its collaborative drive to create a new open video format for HTML5 — there was much excitement within the Open Source community. Amid the excitement, however, was concern about the project's licensing, concern that quickly led to calls for change. more
  • CTERA Networks Announces Advanced Snapshot Capability in Next3 File System for Linux Tuesday, June 8, 2010 @ 7:24AMCTERA Networks, an innovator in hybrid cloud storage and data protection , today announced the immediate availability of Next3®, a breakthrough new open source file system for Linux that is fully compatible with the ubiquitous Ext3 file system. Next3 empowers users to create thin volume snapshots, providing the foundation for point-in-time recovery, change auditing and retention of previous file ...
  • CTERA Networks Announces Advanced Snapshot Capability in Next3 File System for Linux Tuesday, June 8, 2010 @ 7:00AMPETACH TIKVA, Israel & PALO ALTO, Calif.----CTERA Networks, an innovator in hybrid cloud storage and data protection, today announced the immediate availability of Next3®, a breakthrough new open source file system for Linux that is fully compatible with the ubiquitous Ext3 file system.
  • Russinovich: The Case of the Random IE Crash Monday, June 7, 2010 @ 5:41PM"While I long for the day when I no longer experience the effects of buggy software, there's something rewarding about solving my own troubleshooting cases. In the process, I often come up with new techniques to add to my bag of tricks and to share with you in my 'Case of the Unexplained...' presentations and blog posts. The other day I successfully closed an especially interesting case that ...
  • John Sculley on Why He Fired Jobs Monday, June 7, 2010 @ 5:41PM"As Apple's CEO introduces his new iPhone today, and its market cap passes Microsoft's, the man who infamously fired him, John Sculley, tells The Daily Beast's Thomas E. Weber about his regrets, their rift - and how their partnership could have worked: Jobs should have been CEO, and Sculley's boss, rather than the other way around. Plus, other 1985 board members on Jobs then and now, and where ...
  • Expression Studio 4 Launched, Wants to Kill Ugly Apps Monday, June 7, 2010 @ 5:26PM"Expression Studio 4, the latest version of Microsoft's design-oriented development tools, was released to manufacturing today. The software is available immediately to MSDN subscribers, with retail availability coming later. The three main components of Expression Studio are Expression Blend, for producing XAML designs for use with both Silverlight and Windows Presentation Foundation ...
  • Was the Flash Crash Apple's Fault? Monday, June 7, 2010 @ 2:59PM"I'm fascinated by the rapid decline and complete recovery that took place in less than 15 minutes exactly one month ago today on May 6, 2010 coined the 'flash crash'. Even with the gloomy global economic backdrop since then, it's taken the S&P 500 a full month to close lower than the downward spike of that event which originally occurred in two to three minutes. In over 10 years of studying the ...
  • Native ZFS for Linux Monday, June 7, 2010 @ 12:56PMDevelopers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have successfully ported Solaris' ZFS file system to Linux. The problem has been the CDDL. The CDDL is incompatible with GNU Public License that the Linux kernel uses.
  • Google Makes WebM Truly Open Source Monday, June 7, 2010 @ 8:41AMLast month, Google announced the open source WebM project for the VP8 video codec. Almost immediately the open source community grumbled that the license Google used for WebM was not truly open source. Well, on Friday, Google fixed it.
  • aroundosceola.com Monday, June 7, 2010 @ 7:35AMCampbell City Baptist Church, 4463 Bryan Avenue, Kissimmee, is holding a Vacation Bible School program June 21-25, 2010, 6:45pm nightly. Soul Survivors on Danger Island is an exciting and interactive learning experience for children ages 2-18.
  • Google asks for delay in WebM license consideration Friday, May 28, 2010 @ 10:26PMLWN.net: ""This might sound strident, but I think that OSI needs to be more open about its workings to retain credibility in the space"
  • Hello, little girl Thursday, May 13, 2010 @ 10:32AM05_13_10/intothewoodsThe big bad wolf attempts to draw Little Red Riding Hood from the path during the first act of “Into the Woods” at the Powell High School Auditorium last week. Northwest College student Mitch Sleep (left) and PHS senior Kourtnie Rodgers joined other NWC and PHS students, along with community members, to present three performances of the Stephen Sondheim musical. PHS drama ...
  • Top 10 MySQL GUI Tools Thursday, May 13, 2010 @ 1:39AMDatabase Journal: "Many third parties create rich applications to facilitate database management, database development and database administration. Here are ten outstanding graphical interfaces for MySQL."
  • OpenClovis Middleware Selected for NASA Project Wednesday, May 5, 2010 @ 2:01AMOpenClovis, the leader in Open Source High Availability (HA) Middleware and Tools, has signed a contract with Honeywell Aerospace to support the development of NASA space mission project.
  • Cloud.com takes on virty infrastructure Tuesday, May 4, 2010 @ 10:56AMFormer VMOps comes out of stealth Cloud.com, formerly known as VMOps, has come out of stealth mode today as it raised its second round of funding and launched its first products for managing virtual server infrastructure across private and public clouds.…
  • Gentoo: What Does this USE Flag Do? Friday, April 30, 2010 @ 1:50PMThis blog post details how the Gentoo Developers have added a "deblob" USE flag to remove any non-free code within the Linux Kernel. Its goal is to "remove binary blobs from kernel sources to provide libre license compliance". While we're at it, Kernel News has an in-depth look at Gentoo Linux.
  • Microsoft signs agreement to contribute to Joomla open-source project Wednesday, April 28, 2010 @ 10:52AMMicrosoft has signed the contributor agreement for Joomla, one of the biggest PHP-based open-source applications. Joomla is a content-management system (CMS) and a Model View Controller (MVC) framework that is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
  • FreeRTOS and OpenRTOS Books unveiled at ESC, San Jose Wednesday, April 28, 2010 @ 9:42AMBRISTOL, United Kingdom & SAN JOSE, Calif.----Three new real time operating system books have been unveiled at ESC, San Jose.
  • Investors Inject Another $8 Million Into Open Source Software Company Talend Monday, April 19, 2010 @ 7:32AMTalend , a global provider of open source data solutions, this morning announced it has raised another $8 million in Series D financing. Their previous funding round was closed in January 2009, when the company raised $12 million . Existing investors Balderton Capital, AGF Private Equity and Galileo Partners all chipped in again, bringing Talend's total of funding secured to date to $28 million .
  • Spring chicken Thursday, April 15, 2010 @ 10:05AM04_15_10/chicksKera Bennett, 2, is hesitant to pet a chick last week at Poor Boy Feeds in Powell. After encouragement from her aunt, Nicole Powers, Kera gathered enough courage to give the chick a pat. Tribune photo by Carla Wensky
  • Stop and start Thursday, April 15, 2010 @ 10:04AM04_15_10/trackrelayKassey MacDonald (left) and Tess Mitchell complete a handoff during 4x800 relay action earlier this season. After a pair of runner-up finishes, the Panther track teams return to action on their home oval this Saturday. The school is still looking for a few volunteers to assist with the event, which starts at 10 a.m. Those interested can contact Tim Wormald or Vicki Walsh at ...
  • Global CIO: Oracle Delivers On Larry Ellison's MySQL Promises Thursday, April 15, 2010 @ 7:17AMColumn about how Oracle has met or exceeded all of the promises and commitments it made to MySQL customers and developers when Oracle took on the open-source database as part of the company's acquisition of Sun Microsystems.
  • Google boosts open video by funding ARM Theora codec Sunday, April 11, 2010 @ 1:16PMIn a move that will boost support for open video on the mobile Web, Google has provided funding to TheorARM—a project that produces an ARM-optimized implementation of the Ogg Theora video codec. Google's support for the project could be a signal that the search giant is significantly warming up to open video. Although HTML5 delivers open standards for Web video playback, browser vendors have not ...
  • Microsoft says its contentious relationship with open source is changing Thursday, March 18, 2010 @ 8:18PMAt OSBC, a company exec noted that Microsoft relies upon a diverse ecosystem that includes open source to satisfy customers
  • Rivet Logic Releases JSP and Spring MVC Versions of Crafter Rivet Wednesday, March 17, 2010 @ 2:01AMNew release of Crafter rivet enables rapid development of content-rich Web applications using JSP and Spring MVC, offering seamless integration with enterprise-grade Web content management systems like Alfresco.
  • Feel the heat Tuesday, March 16, 2010 @ 10:50AM03_16_10/fire Firemen Mick Hobbs (left) and Bear May man a hose and keep a close eye on a barn the Powell Volunteer Fire Department deliberately burned Saturday morning for training and to rid property of unwanted buildings. Tribune photo by Gib Mathers
  • Product Spotlight: KeePassX 0.4.1 password manager Monday, March 15, 2010 @ 2:08PMKeePassX is perfect for those looking for a secure and portable solution for storing their personal information with cross-platform support.
  • A Big, Linuxy 'Thank You' to Matthew Katzer Thursday, March 4, 2010 @ 7:44AMSometimes there's nothing like a good lawsuit to force people to acknowledge just how much something is worth. Take FOSS, for example. Sure, there are estimates made of its value from time to time -- the latest, in fact, just recently put the kernel alone at $1.4 billion -- but for many people out there, "free" in price tends to be viewed as free of value.
  • Four short links: 2 March 2010 - Visualising Tweeted Data, Voting Licenses, Space-Time Mining, and Processing for the ... Tuesday, March 2, 2010 @ 9:50AMSatScan -- Free software that analyzes spatial, temporal and space-time data using the spatial, temporal, or space-time scan statistics. It is designed for any of the following interrelated purposes: Perform geographical surveillance of disease, to detect spatial or space-time disease clusters, and to see if they are statistically significant; Test whether a disease is randomly distributed over ...
  • How Sun's need to control the code cost them the company Tuesday, March 2, 2010 @ 7:01AMSun was the poster child of a company trying to retain complete control over everything they released into Open Source, and Sun vs. the Linux world was a wonderful example of the weakness of proprietary licensing versus the GPL and decentralized development model. by Jeremy Allison
  • Open source solutions for SOA: Check your bias at the door Monday, March 1, 2010 @ 3:50PMWhile OSS may not be suitable for all implementations all the time, they are increasingly becoming suitable and feasible for an increasing number of SOA implementations. by Dana Gardner
  • Equinox Software Announces New Hosting and Support Services for Koha Libraries Tuesday, February 16, 2010 @ 8:36AMEquinox Software, Inc. (www.esilibrary.com) announced two new hosting and support services for the Koha open source ILS to libraries. Koha on Demand is aimed at libraries looking for quick provisioning of new Koha databases. This service provides a modern, full-featured ILS with system administration managed by Equinox. Koha Dedicated Hosting provides a virtual private ...
  • Wikipedia squeezed onto a single CD Friday, January 29, 2010 @ 5:11AMA South American group has managed to shrink virtually the full content of Wikipedia onto a CD which can be read with on-the-fly compression. read more
  • Oracle in MySQL, OpenOffice autonomy vow Wednesday, January 27, 2010 @ 3:25PMYou will take our extensions The employees of MySQL are a truly blessed people. As with Sun Microsystems before it, Oracle has vowed to leave its sales and development team independent and intact.… Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing
  • Developer Worries About MySQL's Future Wednesday, January 27, 2010 @ 2:12PMOracle said it will continue developing MySQL as free software for the next five years, but the application's lead developer isn't convinced his open source baby will survive much longer.
  • Talend Introduces Rapid, Flexible, Open Source Master Data Management Solution Monday, January 25, 2010 @ 7:00AMLOS ALTOS, Calif.----Talend, the recognized market leader in open source data integration software, today announced the availability of the first open source Master Data Management solution.
  • EC approves Oracle-Sun merger Thursday, January 21, 2010 @ 11:35AMMySQL is not a threat to European antitrust laws, clearing the way for the merger to be completed Visit website for full story...
  • Business Intelligence in Excel and on the Web: Jedox now Provides Supported Open Source Versions for Palo Thursday, January 21, 2010 @ 2:29AMFREIBURG, Germany, January 21 /PRNewswire/ -- - Supported Open Source for Palo Combines Free Open Source BI Software With Support and Maintenance Services.
  • Business Intelligence in Excel and on the Web: Jedox now Provides Supported Open Source Versions for Palo Thursday, January 21, 2010 @ 2:15AMJedox's range of products and associated services now thereby includes open source, supported open source and commercial premium versions.
  • Ex-JBoss chief attacks Monty's 'dangerous' MySQL crusade Wednesday, January 20, 2010 @ 1:05AMOpen-source integration at risk Former JBoss chief Marc Fleury has weighed in on MySQL co-founder Monty Widenius' campaign to stop Oracle's ownership of the open-source database.… What is your recession sales strategy?
  • Demystifying Open Source Monday, January 18, 2010 @ 11:54AMIn 2008, the open source community saw the year end with a headline-catching lawsuit, the Free Software Foundation files suit against Cisco for General Public License (GPL) violations. Not to be outdone, 2009 also ended with a bang. Best Buy, Samsung, JVC and 11 other consumer electronics companies were named in a copyright infringement lawsuit filed on December 14, 2009, by the Software Freedom ...
  • Thousands sign petition to protect MySQL from Oracle Tuesday, January 5, 2010 @ 6:55AMMore than 18,000 people have signed an online petition to protect the future development of open source database MySQL, which is owned by Sun Microsystems....
  • Copenhagen talks Wednesday, December 16, 2009 @ 9:16AMWhat are the potential deal-breakers?
  • Former BusyBox contributor upset about GPL lawsuit Tuesday, December 15, 2009 @ 6:54PMBruce Perens, the original creator of BusyBox, posted a statement in his blog on Tuesday to complain about the GPL enforcement lawsuit that was recently initiated by the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) against consumer electronics companies that are failing to comply with the licensing terms under which BusyBox is distributed. BusyBox, which provides an interactive shell and a number of ...
  • Statement on Busybox Lawsuits Tuesday, December 15, 2009 @ 6:14PMBruce Perens' Weblog: "First, I'd like to point out that I'm not represented in these lawsuits, and that the parties and the Software Freedom Law Center have never attempted to contact me with regard to them."