Digium, Inc., the Asterisk Company, today announced it has acquired Switchvox, a leading provider of IP PBX phone systems for small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). The acquisition bolsters Digium's presence in the SMB market and provides a strong platform on which to advance its Asterisk-based unified communications solution.
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Fighting Office with open source
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Michael Meeks is a distinguished engineer at Novell. But his current project may be his toughest yet. He is in charge of tackling interoperability between Novell's OpenOffice.org productivity suite and Microsoft Office. And as with anything relating to Microsoft, this involves more than just technology.
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Dynamic CSS
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"Rails provides many built-in mime types that you can generate in your application. Unfortunately, CSS was forgotten..."
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VimMate 0.6.5 released
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"VimMate is a graphical add-on to Vim with IDE-like features: it does more than the plain Vim while still being lightweight. Even with the additional features, it stays out of the way for it's main task: editing files with Vim. VimMate adds unctionality to Vim by embedding Vim GTK GUI (gVim) within VimMate."
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An Introduction to all these Emacs articles.
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"...Changing Emacs to act exactly as you want is how Emacs is supposed to be used..."
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Parrot and Multi-threading
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"...Kevin's suggestion that Parrot may solve a big problem for multi-core programming also suggests that the wait for Perl 6 may not have been in vain..."
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Nokia details Linux tablet WiMAX plans
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Nokia plans to ship WiMAX-enabled Internet tablets next year. The as-yet unnamed model or models in Nokia's Linux-powered "N-series" Internet Tablet line will use Intel "Baxter Peak" WiMAX chips and will support Sprint's "Xohm" WiMAX service, the top phone-maker has revealed.
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Linux distro for women? Thanks, but no thanks
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The idea is floating around again: Let's make a special Linux distribution for women! We're smarter than that, aren't we? I say, let's spare ourselves and the world yet another pointless and less-than-useful version of Linux.
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Killing Microsoft's Clippy with open source
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Free software gives you the freedom that, even if you are a one-man shop, you can have it fixed if it is annoying you enough. The example I like to give is "Clippy" — remember? — that whipping boy of journalists. You couldn't turn it off and it came on and you had to talk to it before you came on.
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ION: Open Source Comes to GPS
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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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[The free software movement] is appearing more like a group of religious extremists, and less like programmers intent on creating free replacements for proprietary programs. The FSF's focus is increasingly to protest, boycott, censure, and exclude all things it does not find morally agreeable.
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openSUSE is Looking for a Chief Linux Evangelist
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To strengthen the openSUSE project we’re looking for an enthusiastic Chief Evangelist to: promote and spread the adoption of openSUSE; be a public face for the project on conferences and events; act as voice of the community back to Novell’s leadership team; develop and nurture the openSUSE communities; pro actively drive openSUSE marketing;
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LinuxCertified Announces Ubuntu Laptops Optimized for Engineering and Scientific use
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LinuxCertified Inc, a leading provider of Linux laptops, today announced its next generation laptops optimised for engineering and scientific community. Powered with Ubuntu 7.04, these laptops focus on high performance and scalability. The laptops come pre-configured with many of the common tools used by technical users.
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Asia finds security in open source
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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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The linux spyware challenge
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I've been using linux for quite some time now, and I've never had any problem with spyware or virus infections. At the other end of the spectrum we have Windows.
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