Open Source Software To Be Used For E-Governance Projects

The Economic Times carries a report on a draft policy which says all new E-Governance projects should use open source software on computers and attached devices. The Department of Information Technology...
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Google Chrome Os Vs Microsoft Windows

You know you are on to something big when the competition sits up and takes notice of you. Well, this is what precisely is happening with the case of Google and Microsoft. The two giants are battling it...
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Google Releases Chrome OS – Source Code!

Last week, there was a well sourced news that Google could be launching a part of Chrome OS. On 17th November, they announced an event to be held at their headquarters, Googleplex, Mountain View, California,...
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Microsoft Launches WebsiteSpark To Fight Open Source. Is This Compelling Enough?

For long Microsoft has unsuccessfully tried to woo the web developer community into using their technologies for web development. In the era of the dot-com, open source rules and it is LAMP (Linux, Apache,...
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Is Open Source Now Getting More Unopen?

Shockingly yes, if nothing else in the mobile world. Dr Andreas Constantinou’s research report on Mobile megatrends in 2009 points out that now open is the new closed. Let’s quickly look at...
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India Ranks 23rd In Open Source Activity – Research By Red Hat

Recently, Red Hat commissioned the Georgia Institute of Technology – Georgia Tech, to research the state of open source around the world, and has now publshed the results of the research as the Open...
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Jaiku Goes Open Source – A Look At Potential Of Open Source Models

In a time when there are so many avenues of monetization and a vast audience for web services we are also seeing companies shutting off their operations and going open source. Reddit and Mugshot did it...
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Will Laconi.ca, the Open Source Twitter Clone, Bring in a Revolution?

  Frustrated with the constant downtimes and problems Twitter has been having for the past few months? Unhappy that the IM bot is not working or the API requests are too less to tweet? What if you...
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SUN Microsystems’s CEO On Open Source Software

The opening of JAVA platforms to the developers worldwide was by far the best step that SUN ever took. It helped thousands of developers to create applications for a variety of purposes. Applications...
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The iPhone lets in the 3rd Party!

Now im not sure if this is big news to most of us since only a handful of people in India own iPhones but il go through the basics of this move by Apple nevertheless.      - Apple has opened up its...
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Events Update : IIT E-Summit 2008, Techhare India 2008 and Open Source Madurai 2008

IIT E-Summit 2008 ( 10-feb-2008, IIT-Bombay) The Entrepreneurship Summit is a one-day event , supposed to take place in IIT-Bombay on 10-Feb-2008.Themed around “Changing entrepreneurial ecosystem...
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