OStatic blogs:
On a regular basis, we at OStatic round up our ongoing collections of open source resources, tutorials, reviews and project tours. These educational toolkits are a big part of the learning mission we try to preserve at the si (Read More)
OStatic blogs:
Open source collaboration software vendor MindTouch announced today that its widely-used enterprise collaboration platform is now available in the cloud. This is great news for businesses who want a service comparable to Micr (Read More)
OStatic blogs:
It's often difficult to notice when you're in the midst of making history. Some fine people in San Francisco went about their unremarkable lives in 1967, only to discover years later that they were at ground zero of the "Summ (Read More)
Open Source:
Regular readers here have probably guessed why Microsoft decided to open source .NET Micro under the Apache 2.0 license.Competition.Makers of embedded devices have been moving strongly into open source, especially Linux, and (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Watch out Lexis-Nexis and WestLaw! Google’s coming: You can now read full text legal opinions from U.S. federal and state district, appellate and supreme courts with Google Scholar. Expect an oligopoly (as in the legal resear (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Open-source search has some major advantage compared to it competitors. First of all, it's free. Second, it stands up in comparison to the largest, proprietary search vendors. Third, there is a growing ecosystem around open-s (Read More)
TechCrunch:
This past summer, Daniel Raffel was desired. Google was pushing hard to hire the product manager, we hear from a source. And there are whispers that Twitter and Facebook were also in pursuit of his services. Basically, it see (Read More)
OStatic blogs:
Are you increasingly using public Wi-Fi hotspots? If you are, you're in good company, as many more people use public Wi-Fi for work and play. Airports, coffee shops, hotel lobbies, conference centers and many more types of lo (Read More)
OStatic blogs:
Is open source finally making sense to Microsoft? Jeremy LaCroix sees a number of reasons to believe so. He notes that within only six months, the company has contributed 20,000 lines of code to the Linux community, given awa (Read More)
OStatic blogs:
Opponents of cloud computing cite data loss and vendor lock-in as a primary dangers of relying on such services. They're valid points, but since cloud computing isn't going away anytime soon, it's time to start finding solut (Read More)
VentureBeat:
If any one thing can be learned from the deluge of events, conferences, articles and blog posts on the emerging Smart Grid, its that home energy monitoring companies are the sexiest startups in the space. Consumer-facing, col (Read More)
OStatic blogs:
People Power, a new open source-based green tech startup launches today with the goal of helping people reduce their carbon footprint and control energy consumption in their homes. More than just a cost-analysis Web site that (Read More)
OStatic blogs:
The U.S. Supreme Court will be hearing opening arguments on Bilski vs. Kappos on Monday, November 9th. Not surprisingly, many open source advocates are on the edge of their seats because it's an opportunity for the Supreme Co (Read More)
Linux.com :: Features:
Anyone using Linux (or any operating system for that matter) should know about the OpenOffice.org office suite. This suite of tools serve as the open source equivalent to Microsoft Office and does so with ease and full functi (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
It's called a spoiler tactic. You take your competitor's biggest cash cow and offer a free alternative. Everybody from Linux to Google has used the tactic against Microsoft. So who can fault Microsoft when it uses it against (Read More)
The Open Road:
Google's open-source business model may not be the ideal for which we've waited, but it's the one that we deserve given the values of our market. (Read More)
The Open Road:
The day open source became big business is the day that open-source development exploded. Yes, open source predates the moneyed interests hankering to use it to competitive advantage, but it really wasn't until IBM dropped $ (Read More)
OStatic blogs:
In response to the news this week that the city of Los Angeles is going Googlefied with a $7.25 million, five-year deal to adopt Gmail, Google Calendar and other applications, Novell's blog has an interesting rebuttal. Of cou (Read More)