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Asia finds security in open source

http://www.zdnetasia.com

Better security protection tops the list of buying criteria for open source software, reveals a new study conducted on Australia, China, India and Korea.

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ION: Open Source Comes to GPS

http://www.gpsworld.com

Between military applications and the business that continues to grow exponentially around GNSS and GPS in particular, intellectual property is of paramount importance in this industry—especially considering that the reason for every product is the reception of RF signals freely available to anyone on the entire surface of the planet.

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New payment service now works with Linux

http://www.tectonic.co.za

South African payment gateway service, MyGate, have developed a service that allows e-commerce merchants running Linux to access credit card security services that were developed for Windows platforms.

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Autodesk geography tool goes open source

http://www.news.com

Autodesk on Tuesday announced it will release as open-source software a tool that can convert geographic coordinate data from one format to another.

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Pass the source, please

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At stake here is far more than SCO's existence. It is the front line in a battle between two diametrically opposed ideologies. In the red corner we have open source - the idea that software should be freely available and that it is best developed by a community of interested individuals who incrementally add to it for the common good.

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GNUmed 0.2.7.0 released

http://www.linuxmednews.com

A new GNUmed version is out. The version name is up to 0.2.7.0 which implies a whole new set of features.

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Coming soon: automatic Linux driver upgrades

http://www.linux-watch.com

Linux users want two things for their hardware: drivers; and easy access to those drivers. The first is finally happening; and now, thanks to a Dell Linux project called DKMS (Dynamic Kernel Module Support), the other is on its way.

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If Linux Isn't Successful, Why Is Everybody Talking About It?

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Today is a banner day, because I'm doing something I don't often do: Linking to and agreeing with Information Week.

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Broadcom aims advanced comm chips at Linux handsets

http://www.linuxdevices.com

Communications chip giant Broadcom has joined the LiMo (Linux Mobile) Foundation, an industry group building a shared Linux stack for mobile phones. The company said it hopes to work with the Foundation to reduce Linux's power requirements, size, and cost, in order to "achieve widespread adoption of Linux-based handsets."

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Printing Trends in Linux

http://www.onlamp.com

What technology has to work right out of the box, but requires cooperation among a dozen companies and even more independent developers? If you answered printing, you probably remember the tussles you've had with this technology on Linux or Unix systems.

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Open Source Hardware: Birth Of A Long Tail Market?

http://itmanagement.earthweb.com

With open source software becoming a household name, another open source movement that may one day see some fanfare is already taking shape. Open source hardware, which I once thought to be little more than a pipe dream left over from a bygone era, is proving to be a dream that it is very much alive and growing.

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SaaS vs. Open Source: Open Source will win

http://weblog.infoworld.com

One of the things that struck me as I roamed the floor of the Dreamforce event (besides the fact that I find events like this to be incredibly depressing) is that there is a clear difference between companies that form a "community" and those that are part of an "ecosystem."

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Commercial Software Will Include Open Source, Gartner Says

http://www.eweek.com

At least 80 percent of all commercial software products will include elements of open-source code by 2010, according to Mark Driver, vice president of research at Gartner.

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The open-source Gold Rush (Updated)

http://www.news.com

What's the trend? Bigger. We are in the midst of a Gold Rush, as Dana Blankenhorn has written. The rules of software business are being rewritten, and those who understand them will make a lot of money for shareholders...and themselves.

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SCO Blames Linux For Bankruptcy Filing

http://www.informationweek.com

SCO Group CEO Darl McBride says competition from the open source Linux operating system was a major reason why the company was forced to file for Chapter 11 on Friday. The slump, McBride said, "has been attributable to competition from alternative operating systems, including Linux."

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