Google is stepping up its presence in the mobile space with a late-2007 announcement of Android, its mobile phone operating system that competes directly with existing phone operating systems such as Symbian and Windows Mobile.
Read more »Journalists ogle Google’s Android cell phone OS
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Openmoko open source mobile phone selling 'in early July'
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If you mosey on over to http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Community_Updates you'll see that
the open source mobile phone is finally in production and predicted to be available for sale in the U.S. in early July.
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Aladdin HASP SRM Adds Linux Support
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World's Strongest Protection Against Software Piracy, Unlicensed Use and IP Theft Is Now Available for All Major Operating Systems
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Firefox 3 powers to a smashing download record
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Mozilla has succeeded beyond its wildest dreams, receiving more than its hoped for 5 million downloads of Firefox 3 in less than 14 hours. So for the first day of the new browser's life, it's onward to 7 million!
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Linux Development Thriving
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There was a time when developers were clamouring all over Microsoft, but latest figures from Evans Data shows that fewer than one in ten software developers are writing applications for Windows Vista this year – just eight percent. To rub salt in the wound, the data shows that 49 percent of developers are writing applications for Windows XP.
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Bridging the African digital divide - with a ‘toaster’
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Stabilisers for freedom: Wine 1.0
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Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) acknowledges the importance of the work being done by the Wine developers, whose efforts help many users to migrate to Free Software.
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Lessons learned from NCSU FOSS class
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Free and open source software (FOSS) is only beginning to find a foothold in computer science departments in North America. FOSS tools may be used in teaching or be the subject of research or special committees, but few departments include courses that introduce students to the FOSS community.
Read more »A Novell Vice President Quits, Company Initiates ‘Damage Control’
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Thomas Francese, Novell's executive vice president of worldwide sales, is leaving the company
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Is Linux the most secure OS?
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Linux-based systems get a lot of press in IT trade publications. A lot of that press relates to its security characteristics.
Read more »Open Source: Thinking Outside the Glass Box
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If I were to ask you what the world’s most largest open source firm was, how would you answer? Red Hat, perhaps, because they’re the first pure play to get within hailing distance of a billion in revenue? MySQL, because they were valued at a billion? IBM? Sun?
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Mozilla: 1.6 million downloads and counting
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Early Tuesday evening, the Mozilla organization gave BetaNews an update on its quest to have posted the single most downloaded (tracked) software item in a single day, having exceeded Firefox 2's single-day mark in just five hours' time.
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Untangle, N-able Deal Accelerates Open Source, MSP Convergence
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N-able has inked a security-related managed services partnership with Untangle. But I believe there’s a bigger trend here. Untangle has a strong position in the open source industry.
Read more »Open source has yet to learn it pays to advertise
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The latest Microsoft move to upset open source advocates is word the giant of Redmond is helping sponsor the open source census.
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IBM supercomputer dual-boots Windows and Linux
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IBM has demonstrated one of the highest profile supercomputers yet to run Windows as well as Linux - the Akka system, installed at the High Performance Computing Center North (HPC2N) in northern Sweden.
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