Job portal Naukri has availed the benefits of Open Source, according to its Chief Information Officer, Vibhore Sharma.

Erlang certainly belongs in the category, and we've written about it several times before. Erlang is, among other things, a serious language: its best-known applications are in big mission-critical telecommunications systems, the German national air-traffic control organization, and Facebook's chat.

If you happen to own a Roomba robotic vacuum cleaner, you already have a robot in your life. (I have a Roomba, and highly recommend it--available at Target.) Roomba is a classic example of how a robot doesn't have to be humanoid to be useful. In the open source community, though, there are several efforts to develop robots that look and/or act like humans, performing interesting and useful tasks.

What does it mean to be open. My copy of Oxford defines open as: unconcealed circumstances or condition. Way back in the day when the GNU operating system was getting going, they coined the mantra: Free software is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of free as in free speech, not as in free beer.

The New Dell Inspirion Mini 9 may well become my best friend. I noticed today that Dell is previewing their new line of Mini Notebook computers and they are impressive. The Dell Inspirion Mini 9 is Dell's entry into the mini notebook market at a very low price point: $349.

Here are all the documents still electronically available from the court in the Caldera v. Microsoft litigation, which settled in 2000. Very little is available any more, mainly orders, but you can learn quite a bit from reading orders. And the docket sheet itself tells quite a tale.

Caldera's settlement is back! And it contains some gory details.

Harms of the ISO/IEC and OOXML, which they elected under Microsoft's sheer 'pressure'