Open Source Lawyers Offer Free Legal Advice
Jul 14, 2009With the Free Software Foundation Europe as the idea source, international and open source lawyers have started a publication to help the legal profession understand issues surrounding free and open source software. The lawyers have taken the open source community as a model for their project.
more »Openmoko Gets New Life in Brazil After Being Declared Dead
Jul 14, 2009Thanks to Jon "Maddog" Hall the Openmoko project has got a new stimulus: a Brazilian university has offered to partipate in Openmoko development. The blessing of the Brazilian government could lead to new Openmoko models.
more »Chrome OS: Google to Build Its Own Operating System
Jul 09, 2009In the official Google blog, VP of product management Sundar Pichai and engineering director Linus Upson announce plans to develop a Google Chrome OS.
more »Dovecot 1.2 IMAP Server with New Plugins
Jul 08, 2009The new IMAP and POP3 server Dovecot is available in version 1.2. It supports further extensions of the IMAP protocol and provides new plugins.
more »Gran Canaria Desktop Summit: Maemo Switches to Qt
Jul 05, 2009Nokia will be using the Qt toolkit for its Maemo user interface in the future, according to an announcement the firm made at this year's Gran Canaria Desktop Summit.
more »Apple Wary of Ogg Theora: No Agreement Yet on HTML5 Video Standard
Jul 03, 2009Firefox 3.5 and Chrome already support the new video tag of the HTML5 specification. Before it can become a standard, though, more browsers makers have to agree on the codec.
more »Intel and Nokia to Stir Up Mobile Market
Jul 03, 2009Market research firm Gartner sees Intel's mobile processor platform as a serious contender with Qualcomm and Texas Instruments due to its recent collaboration with Nokia.
more »Linksys Linux-Based WRT160NL Router
Jul 01, 2009The Linux router WRT54GL from Cisco subsidiary Linksys wrote part of the history of open source a few years ago. Now its WRT160NL WLAN successor is ready to step up to the plate.
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