Gizmodo:
This week we met Motorola's Droid, the first handset with Android 2.0. To an outsider, it just looks like another Google smartphone, but 2.0 is more than that: it's proof that Android is finally going to take over the world. So Wait, What Is Android, Exactly? In Google's words, it's "the first truly open and comprehensive p (Read More)
Gizmodo:
I know the week's barely started, but I've already got the freakishly scary weekend project I want to take on. Some folks have put together instructions to build a completely automatic, autonomous sentry gun and holy crap is it awesome. All the instructions, from how to build the firing mechanism to the open source contro (Read More)
Gizmodo:
I know the week's barely started, but I've already got the freakishly scary weekend project I want to take on. Some folks have put together instructions to build a completely automatic, autonomous sentry gun and holy crap is it awesome. All the instructions, from how to build the firing mechanism to the open source contro (Read More)
TechCrunch:
With 600 unique visits per month, Yahoo sees a large amount of traffic to its sites. In order to maintain sites in the cloud, Yahoo uses Traffic Server, a piece of software initially acquired via Inktomi, to support this massive amount of traffic. Tomorrow, Yahoo will be debuting an open source version of Traffic Server. T (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Skype will soon become open source software, at least the Linux version, and maybe run on every smartphone, TV set-top box or other gadget powered by the free operating system. It could also become part of multi-protocol messengers like Pidgin or eBuddy or Meebo. Or at least that was the hope for some hours today after a Fr (Read More)
Engadget:
There was a time when the X in XBMC stood for Xbox, but now just look at it. The open source project is showing up on everything from MIDs to Apple TVs and soon will be in the wild running on ARM-powered devices, with the development team posting a teaser video of the software running quite well on a tiny 600MHz Beagleboard (Read More)
Open Source:
Anyone seeking a case study of how a proprietary software company can “embrace and extend” itself into the open source world should stop thinking Microsoft and start thinking Blackboard.(Picture from the University of Alaska. Bonus points if you find a link to Russia from the site.)Blackboard has a long-running feud with op (Read More)
Doc Searls Weblog:
On Thursday, right after failing to get a root canal for the Xth time (saga here), I participated in a square-table discussion (I say that because we sat around a table with four corners) titled “How to Make Money in News: New Business Models for the 21st Century — An Executive Session sponsored by the Joan Shorenstein Cent (Read More)
Boing Boing:
Jeremy sez, "Shareable tells the story of sharing. We cover the people, places, and projects that are bringing a shareable world to life. And share tools and tips to help you make a shareable world real in your life. In a shareable world, things like car sharing, community gardening, and cohousing bring us together, make li (Read More)
Submitted by Kenmat
from Google Reader:
A few months ago, McKinsey & Co. asked me to write an article for their online magazine What Matters. The edited article, "Creative Commons: Enabling the next level of innovation" was just posted to their site.Following is the unedited original version.--The explosion of innovation around the Internet is driven by an ecosys (Read More)
Gizmodo:
If I wasn't so worried about traumatizing the kids in my neighborhood, dispensing trick or treat candy in this creepy spider bot pumpkin would be awesome. It runs C on an Axon microcontroller. It uses all digital servos and can lift over twice its body weight. The software (soon to be given out open source) allows for 6 (Read More)
Planet Ubuntu:
So you've just installed Ubuntu 9.10, the cute and cuddly Karmic Koala, but now you're confronted with a most pertinent question, "What do i do now?" Ubuntu is a very complete and full-featured Linux distribution, but no operating system can come with everything you want. There's much more fun to be had in what comes after (Read More)
Engadget:
It's October 2009 which means something very special for Linux fans: a 9.10 release of Ubuntu. Today we see the launch of "Karmic Koala" featuring a faster graphical boot sequence (no more scary text scrolls), a revamped audio framework that improves sound control across multiple applications, and a new Software Center that (Read More)
BlogsDNA:
Many company and IT firms prefer to use custom home made software rather. You may want to publicize your firm name or company name using open source software. One such software which you can rebrand easily and distribute to your clients and users is Firefox and Thunderbird.To make it simple for you to customize Firefox & Th (Read More)