Microsoft Corp. was smacked down by Europe's second-highest court Monday and publicly scolded by a top antitrust regulator -- warned to stop using the dominance of Windows to its advantage in other areas of the software business.
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Why Freebase if we already have Wikipedia
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"The real difference is that Wikipedia doesn’t have an API."
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Microsoft loses antitrust appeal
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Hurray! Finally some sense in the EUropean institutions.
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OpenID - and the debate goes on…
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"...it is important to note what OpenID is actually intended to do, solve one problem and solve it well. What problem?
Read more »Microsoft loses big - (EU) - A readable slap by slap summary
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The court indicted that it had seen no evidence to demonstrate that they contained ‘any intrinsically valuable invention'. The court was, in fact, singularly unimpressed by the ‘innovation' argument, something of a holy-cow in the US.
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Broadcom joins Linux Mobile Foundation
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Broadcom said Linux is gaining momentum in mobile phones and that it would work with LiMo Foundation members to address power consumption, size and cost, in an effort to achieve widespread adoption of Linux-based handsets.
Read more »Parrot Grant Update for July, August, and Half of September
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"In July and August, we had our monthly releases of Parrot, 0.4.14 and 0.4.15. There were various language updates, but one of these deserves special mention. The 0.4.15 release included an implementation of "Not Quite Perl".
Read more »Open-source mechanics: Improving conversion rates
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Open-source business depends upon data. Because so much of the business happens online, it's possible to set and track metrics that would otherwise be difficult to do in a proprietary model. One area that all open-source startups focus on is improving conversion rates.
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GPL'd Linux stack supports touchscreen phones
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Trolltech will release its entire application development framework for Linux-based mobile phones under the GPL license, it announced on Sept. 18. Additionally, the development tools and software stack vendor plans to support FIC's iPhone-like GTA01 ("Neo1973") as an open phone development platform.
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Mozilla's New Focus on Thunderbird and Internet Communications
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"...The result is that Mozilla is launching a new effort to improve email and internet communications. We will increase our investment and focus on our current email client -- Thunderbird -- and on innovations in the email and communications areas. We are doing so by creating a new organization with this as its sole focus and committing resources to this organization.
Read more »Mozilla Launches Internet Mail and Communications Initiative
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"...In July 2007, Baker delivered a call to action soliciting community feedback about the future of Thunderbird. After an active public discussion, the Mozilla Foundation board approved the creation of a distinct new Mozilla Foundation subsidiary dedicated to developing, innovating and improving Internet mail and communication software..."
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First Version of Xmpp-PSN available
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"...You can find out more about the basics of the project here, but basically it’s an http layer on top of a common python XMPP library that lets you do most of the roster management available through XMPP by way of a simple restful api.The workflow for using it is simple, just install the app into an existing django project, and that will expose the api.
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Another Xubuntu convert!
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Over the past week I helped my sister switch over from Ubuntu to Xubuntu. (Maybe I was a little biased about Xubuntu as she was making the switch, but c’mon…I write a blog about it, I might as well be! :P)
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How Linux saved our Chinese bacon
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BEING A BIT OF A GEEK can surely bring you a bit of extra notice in some circles. The tee-shirt emblazoned with: "No, I will not fix your computer" is an example of the favour of such notice. Be that as it may, we are sometimes lured into lending a helping hand to our less technically inclined brethren from time to time.
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