NYSE adopts Red Hat Enterprise Linux for $140 billion-a-day trading platform.
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Verizon, Mozilla join mobile Linux group
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Verizon Wireless is throwing its support behind mobile Linux, becoming the first U.S. operator to join the LiMo Foundation, a group developing mobile Linux technology.
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Linux-based touchpanel targets elderly homecare
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Blue Heron Network has demonstrated an Ubuntu Linux-based touchpanel PC aimed at helping patients in the early stages of neuro-degenerative conditions like Alzheimer's stay independent for as long as possible. The WiFi-enabled Reside@Home Monitor keeps homecare patients connected to family and caregivers via the Internet, the company says.
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Asterisk Going Carrier-Grade?
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A UK-based carrier-grade equipment vendor may begin baking the open source IP-PBX into its offerings. Is this the next big step for open source VoIP?
Read more »Best Computing Solutions: The Future of Linux - Part II
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Some People Prefer to Buy Cheap. Take most people in the market for a new computer. Put them in places like Costco or Best Buy - what do you think they will end up with? A new Ubuntu box from Dell? Nope. A Mac? Not even close. In reality, it will likely be something from HP, and it will be clearly designed for the Vista release of Windows.
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MIT students show power of open cell phone systems
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What do you want your cell phone to be able to do? Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Hal Abelson put that question to about 20 computer science students this semester when he gave them one assignment: Design a software program for cell phones that use Google Inc.'s upcoming Android mobile operating system.
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Sun Microsystems is out with an answer to Adobe's AIR and Microsoft's Silverlight Rich Internet Application tools: JavaFX. At the JavaOne show in San Francisco today, Sun's head of software, Rich Green, discussed what to expect from the new offering.
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Linux + UMPC = Smokin' Hot
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Ultra-Mobile Personal Computers (UMPC) are so hot right now that major PC manufacturers are competing to create the lightest, fastest and sexiest-looking portable machines imaginable. Most of these emerging sub-notebooks are pre-installed with Linux, and I wasn't surprised.
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Oracle crowns Red Hat the Linux king
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For those who had forgotten, Oracle provides Linux support. It's called "Unbreakable Linux."
Read more »Microsoft Ex-Pats Developing Open Source Software Outside of Redmond
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There are a number of ventures run by ex-Microsofties who are seeing success. Maybe the the question real question is, “How far does the apple fall from the tree?”
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Ubuntu ported to a PDA
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Ubuntu Linux 7.04 is now available for Sharp's Zaurus PDAs. The 0.1 release comes with a minimalist filesystem that can be launched in an emulator, enhanced with software from the vast Ubuntu archives, and then flashed onto a real Zaurus.
Read more »OpenSolaris Arrives just to Die
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OpenSolaris, Sun’s open-source take on its Solaris operating system, has finally arrived. Some people, like Jason Perlow at ZDNet think that this is great news and that Sun’s latest operating system will give Linux a real challenge.
Read more »Linux phone maker updates tools
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Motorola will preview native Linux and Webkit widget development tools for mobile phones this quarter, it said. Additionally, at JavaOne this week, the handset vendor launched updated Java ME (Micro Edition) tools, and announced a beta release of Symbian UIQ development tools.
Read more »Does Trent Reznor get it? Or how to piss off the RIAA.
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Well it’s been all over the place today the new Nine Inch Nails record the slip was made available by Trent Reznor, the creative force behind NIN made the post on dig himself after all. This is just the latest in high profile artiest (like radiohead) that have started to experiment in new forms of distribution for their works.
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