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NETWORKING specialist Netgear has launched an open source wireless router targeting consumer markets and giving users access to a wide variety of applications developed by the open source community.
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Sun Microsystems has shocked Wall Street by posting a loss for its fiscal third quarter, with revenue declining by half a percentage point compared to the year ago quarter. |
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AFTER more than 14 months of wrangling, Microsoft has won its bid to have a key document standards format adopted as a global standard – a decision that should translate into more sales. |
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Mozilla, the not-for-profit open source foundation behind the massively popular Firefox browser, has quietly set up a new subsidiary focused entirely on the messaging and mail markets. |
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Research innovators at IBM have unveiled a software platform that more easily extends desktop computing and Web 2.0 capabilities to mobile phones.
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EUROPE’s top competition regulator has noted the sweeping interoperability changes announced by Microsoft, but cautioned that it has heard such commitments in the past without real progress. |
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THE SCO Group, which claims ownership of Unix code used in the open source Linux operating system, is on the verge of emerging from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after organising $100 million in new financing. |
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SUN Microsystems has announced it is to acquire the German open source virtualisation company Innotek, which makes VirtualBox software that lets users more easily run different operating systems on a single box. |
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THE LiMo Foundation, an open source consortium that has developed a Linux-based platform for mobile devices, has announced 18 mobiles phones from leading manufacturers that use its platform. |
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THE move towards making portable web identities has taken a giant step forward as five of the industry’s most power companies – Google, IBM, Microsoft, Verisign and Yahoo – joined the OpenID Foundation board. |
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IT was always a weird relationship, but now with car giant Renault engaging the Microsoft-Novell alliance as a customer, it is all the more interesting to watch the strange bedfellows promote the deal. |
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THE French Gendarmerie Nationale, or paramilitary policy force, has dumped Microsoft Windows in favour of the Linux distribution Ubuntu, making it one of the largest administrations in the world to move to open source. |
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SUN Microsystems has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Swedish open source database pioneer MySQL for US$1 billion (A$1.1 billion). |
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ANTITRUST regulators in the US have Microsoft in their sights again, opening two new investigations over alleged infringements of competition rules. |
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THE US-based Open Source Applications Foundation (OSAF) has announced a major funding restructure and revealed that its founder and primary financial contributor Mitchell Kapor plans to leave the organisation. |
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COMMUNICATIONS chip-maker Broadcom and open source developer Trolltech have entered a partnership that aims to create a multimedia VoIP development platform based on Linux. |
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OPEN source luminary Mitchell Baker has stepped down as chief executive of Mozilla Corporation, effective immediately, but says she will continue as both chairman and an employee of the company. |
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THE Dutch Government has directed its agencies to start using open source software, setting a deadline of April next year to implement the policy, The Associated Press is reporting. |
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OPEN source software specialist Mozilla has launched the first beta release of its next-generation Firefox 3 browser, highlighting better security, ease of use, and personalisation features. |
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IBM and Yahoo! has unveiled an updated version of its enterprise search software, which lets companies customise and personalise searches of information within their organisations and across the web. |
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LEADING US-based unified communications and contact centre specialist Fonality has acquired Sydney-based SugarCRM development house Insightful Solutions for an undisclosed sum.
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MORE than half of technology exexcutives in the US federal government have implemented open source software projects in their agencies, citing security and reliability issues as the chief reason. |
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COMPUTING giant IBM has announced plans to develop commercial “cloud computing” services based on its expertise in building massively scalable infrastructure using open standards and open source software.
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OPEN Source Linux has ‘arrived’ in the mainstream so many times that even the most one-eyed Gearhead has trouble getting excited enough to herald the latest amazing, unique, never-seen-before market breakthrough. |
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SOFTWARE maker Novell has announced the latest version of its Linux distribution OpenSUSE 10.3 is now available for free download through its openSUSE Project community program. |
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