CeBIT 2009: OpenStreetMap Wins Two Linux New Media Awards

Mar 06, 2009

Linux New Media AG has presented its annual awards for outstanding contributions to Open Source at CeBIT 2009 in Hannover. The OpenStreetMap project ended up garnering two of the six Linux New Media awards.

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CeBIT 2009: Internet Service Bus for Cloud Users

Mar 06, 2009

The Interoperability project of the Open Source Business Foundation (OSBF) under Microsoft leadership presented its first results at CeBIT in Hannover.

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CeBIT 2009: Linux Wants to Win Back Netbooks

Mar 05, 2009

About a year ago almost every netbook ran on Linux. Now the free platform has disappeared from almost all of them. In an Open Source Forum at CeBIT, Warren Coles of Taiwanese netbook vendor Linpus explained the reasons why.

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OpenStreetMap Now in 3D

Mar 05, 2009

Users and programmers can now call up three-dimensional landscape models, map data and comprehensive metadata via the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project. The first phase is constructing an open standard-based 3D Geodata Infrastructure (GDI-3D) for entire Germany.

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CeBIT 2009: Garmin presents Nüvifone with Linux

Mar 04, 2009

US navigation specialist Garmin has shown off their nüvifone G60 at the 2009 CeBIT in Hanover.

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CeBIT 2009: BMW and Partners Found GENIVI Open Source Platform

Mar 03, 2009

In a keynote at the Open Source Forum of CeBIT 2009, Graham Smethurst, general manager of infotainment and communication systems at BMW, will present a new Open Source development platform for the auto industry. Under the name GENIVI, founding partners BMW, Delphi, General Motors, Intel, Magneti Marelli, PSA Peugeot Citroën, Visteon and Wind River will jointly develop Linux-based infotainment software

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Squid at Home Filtering home Internet access with Squid

Feb 28, 2009

Are your children wearing out their eyeballs on the Internet? Squid will help you impose some time limits and filter out inappropriate content.

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Microsoft's Battle with TomTom: Shape of Things to Come?

Feb 27, 2009

Microsoft's current patent suit against navigation software maker TomTom has caused quite a stir in the Open Source arena and might turn into a wave of MS attacks on Linux.

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