"There isn't a perfect mobile browser and there is plenty of room for competition in the space, which is why Mozilla is stepping up its efforts to improve the browsing experience on mobile phones, the company said this week..."
Read more »Decibel Audio Player: An Audio Player for Human Beings
"Decibel Audio Player is available in Debian unstable/testing and Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon repositories (package decibel-audio-player)."
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Linux Doesn't Need To Look Like Windows
After reading colleague Alexander Wolfe's piece about a Linux distro called "Vixta" that apes the look and feel of Windows Vista, I confess to having mixed feelings about the whole thing. Mostly negative ones.
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Prior Art - What's a Claim Limitation?
So, here's my question: what is Novell talking about? How can we believe that Microsoft has agreed to indemnify GPLv3 code, when it has publicly stated it would rather leap off the Grand Canyon than touch it with a pinky?
Read more »Lessons learned from open source Xara's failure
On October 11, 2005, proprietary software maker Xara announced its plans to open the source code to its flagship vector graphics package Xara Xtreme, and with the help of community developers port it to Linux. Today, two years later, the project is stagnant and on the verge of irrelevance, primarily because the company couldn't figure out how to work with the open source community.
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Mozilla's big plans for mobile Firefox may be too little, too late
Mozilla's Firefox web browser has steadily increased in popularity on the desktop, but those market share gains haven't translated over into the mobile space despite increasing interest in mobile open-source software solutions. In an announcement on his blog, developer Mike Schroepfer has revealed Mozilla's plans to revitalize its mobile development efforts.
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MySQL: OEM Partners Key to Business
The open source database vendor is signing more and more ISV partnerships every day.
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IP Innovation LLC: Patsy or Proxy?
For the record, (and I realize that I might be opening myself to calls of "naive") I am not 100 percent convinced that this pioneering patent infringement lawsuit is a direct result of Microsoft's planning.
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The [open innovation] Love-in
With Microsoft poised to unleash its next collaboration and unified communication (UC) suite next week, rival IBM is launching a preemptive strike by promising a tight level of integration between its own UC platform and its new, free Lotus Symphony productivity suite.
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Virtual appliances spawn new class of Linux distros
As virtualization continues to permeate IT shops, many independent software vendors (ISVs) are distributing software as Linux virtual appliances: preconfigured virtual machines that include the application's entire stack, including the operating system. But industry experts say that end users need to understand the design of these virtual appliances before bringing them into an environment.
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Parrot Bug Day on Saturday!
"Saturday, 13 October, is the monthly Parrot Bug Day. Parrot hackers will be in #parrot on irc.perl.org all day to answer questions, apply patches, fix bugs, and clean up the bird for the upcoming release on Tuesday, 16 October..."
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WebRunner keeps you focused
"Mozilla's WebRunner is a single-serving version of Firefox that strips away all the bells and whistles. There's no Web surfing to be done with this lightweight tool. Menus, extensions, themes, toolbars and navigation have all been excised, like a sculptor cutting away excess marble..."
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First Release Candidate for Songbird 0.3
"We've rolled right past the blessing bot to a Release Candidate – it’s happy fun testing time! Download Songbird 0.3 RC1 and let us know how it goes..."
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Screening of Good Copy Bad Copy in NYC
"This Tuesday, October 16th, Free Culture @ NYU will be hosting a screening of Good Copy Bad Copy, a fantastic documentary about copyright and culture, at the NYU Courant Institute, followed by a a question and answer session with the film’s award-winning Danish co-director, Henrik Moltke, and Fritz Attaway, the MPAA’s Executive VP and Special Policy Advisor..."
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Open source CMS - promise without pitfall
Open source has changed operating systems, application servers and databases. Now, the benefits of open source are being realized in content management systems (CMS), traditionally a vendor-controlled world of expensive licensing and closed APIs.
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