Delivering the Internet of the future, at the speed of light and open-sourced
New research has found, for the first time, a scientific solution that enables future internet infrastructure to become completely open […]
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In Volkswagen emissions fraud scandal, proprietary software is the real villain
“Proprietary software is an unsafe building material. You can’t inspect it.†Columbia University law professor Eben Moglen made that observation
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Telstra eyes innovation through startups, IoT, M2M
Open Source key to innovation at Telstra says Frank Arrigo, API evangelist at Telstra. Telstra is looking to stay ahead of
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My article in ToI: Why Ubuntu?
Users who are running licensed versions of Windows 7 or 8.1 on their PCs get a free upgrade to Windows
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Facebook open sources React Native so you can reuse code across Web, Android and iOS
Facebook built the React JavaScript library so its engineering team could build interfaces for iOS, Android, and web with the
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Google backs OpenStack
GOOGLE HAS BECOME the biggest name yet to back the open source cloud system OpenStack. Specifically, Google will help integrate
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Raspberry Pi stays high in Hacker Survey
Last month, LinuxGizmos.com and the Linux Foundation’s Linux.com community website sponsored a 10-day SurveyMonkey survey that asked readers of both
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What’s Blocking The $11 Trillion Internet Of Things Opportunity
Unfortunately, there are plenty of factors impeding this data-rich future. The problems range from the 400-plus competing IoT standards to
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Open source is ‘only reliable way’ to preserve human history, argues Vatican
OPEN SOURCEÂ is key for humanity to preserve its history in the digital age, Vatican Library CIO Luciano Ammenti has argued.
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Apache vs Nginx vs OpenLiteSpeed
We’re setting up a new production web server for our own site and as it’s a chance to start fresh,
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Facebook’s open-source Android debugging tool
Facebook said today that it’s giving away a tool it built to spot errors in Android application code. Facebook has gradually
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Sam Ramji takes lead at Cloud Foundry Foundation
In 2015, many Linux and open-source vets still distrust Microsoft’s conversion to open-source. In 2006, no one believed that when
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Raspberry Pi 2
Raspberry Pi 2 is here. A 900MHz quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 CPU 1GB LPDDR2 SDRAM Compatible with Raspberry Pi 1 $35 And
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The best open-source office suite, LibreOffice 4.4, gets new release
Who says you can’t have fast, good and cheap? The Document Foundation’s latest release of the most popular open-source office
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Tox: Secure and Open Source alternative to Skype
The main thing the Tox team is trying to do, besides provide encryption, is create a tool that requires no
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HP to Invest $1 billion in Open Cloud Services
The company has pledged to invest $1 billion in open cloud products and services over the next two years, along
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Seven Out Of Ten People Don’t Use Microsoft Office Anymore
If your usage is not much, use LibreOffice and save on your licensing costs. If new data are true, Microsofthas a
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Is Ubuntu affected by Heartbleed ?
The Short answer is No. Ubuntu was patched on 7th April 2014 and the bug was widely reported on 8th
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UK’s security branch says Ubuntu most secure end-user OS
The Communications-Electronics Security Group (CESG), the group within the UK Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) that assesses operating systems and software
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Thunderbird: Sending emails in the background
Mozilla Thunderbird is one of the most powerful email clients. However I used to find that it used to keep