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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, to give a ‘technical background’ and some demos.
Sundar Pichai, Google’s VP of Product Management and Matthew Papakipos, Google Engineering Director [...]
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, MySQP, PHP/Perl/Python) that the web developers are after. Perhaps this is a realization a tad too late as Microsoft has announced the [...]
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 how OSI has defined Open Source
Open source is a development method for software that harnesses the power of distributed peer review and transparency of [...]
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 Source Activity Map and Open Source Environment Map.
Open Source Activity Map
Open Source Environment Map
And surprisingly, India fares pretty well in the [...]
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 earlier and now its time for Jaiku.
It was in 2007 when google announced acquisition of jaiku when microblogging was just [...]
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 could run your own Twitter like service, right from your own home?
Well, now you can. Presenting, Laconi.ca, the Open [...]
SUN Microsystems’s CEO On Open Source Software
Jonathan Schwartz continues in his blog about the benefits of free softwares. He aptly puts – “Free software has no pirates”. Schwartz asks companies to consider the pirates simply as users who cannot afford your software.
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 Software to outside develops in order to crowd – source and make the iPhone [...]
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 in India”, the summit will have eminent panel speakers from the industry and academics discussing the emerging trends in the entrepreneurial ecosystem in India.
The inaugural speech will be by Mr. [...]