Asterisk 1.8 Released With Support For Google Voice
Last Updated on Sunday, 24 October 2010 01:20 Written by External Post Sunday, 24 October 2010 01:20
Thinkcloud writes with a note that long-standing open-source VoiP software Asterisk has just been updated, and it’s packed with more than 200 enhancements, security updates, and new features including calendar integration and support for Google Voice and
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Google MD on Apple: ‘Open source will win’
Last Updated on Saturday, 16 October 2010 02:40 Written by External Post Saturday, 16 October 2010 02:40
Matt Brittin, managing director for Google’s UK and Ireland operations, believes open source poses a problem for Apple. Responding to the question, ‘Is Apple unstoppable?’, at the AOP Digital Publishing Summit today, Brittin said, Apple is “brilliant”
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‘Anti-Facebook’ project releases first batch of code
Last Updated on Thursday, 16 September 2010 03:40 Written by External Post Thursday, 16 September 2010 03:40
The open-source Diaspora project released on Wednesday the first iteration of its so-called anti-Facebook social-networking application. According to a blog post, the development team aims to work with the community to enhance and extend the software in
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Google takes Acre fully open source
Last Updated on Friday, 27 August 2010 09:00 Written by External Post Friday, 27 August 2010 09:00
On Wednesday, Google announced that Acre, the server-side JavaScript environment used to programme applications that access the Freebase database, is now fully open source. Previously, development of Acre apps had to be achieved via the Google-owned
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Google’s WebM open source video project gathers pace
Last Updated on Tuesday, 6 July 2010 07:00 Written by External Post Tuesday, 6 July 2010 07:00
News has been circulating for more than a month now of Google’s open source video project known as WebM. The search giant plans to convert all the content on its YouTube site to the new format, which is built with VP8 video compression software and
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Yahoo adds security and workflow management to Hadoop
Last Updated on Tuesday, 29 June 2010 07:00 Written by External Post Tuesday, 29 June 2010 07:00
Yahoo, which has championed the open source Apache Hadoop distributed computing platform, is adding capabilities for Kerberos security and workflow management to the platform. The company on Tuesday will unveil the open source additions at the
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Google WebM Calls “Open Source” Into Question
Last Updated on Saturday, 29 May 2010 03:20 Written by External Post Saturday, 29 May 2010 03:20
snydeq writes ‘As open source becomes mainstream, vendors are under pressure to market their offerings using the ‘open source’ brand to the highest degree possible a trend that may eventually degrade the meaning of ‘open source’ as we know it, Savio
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Yahoo sells Zimbra to VMware
Last Updated on Tuesday, 12 January 2010 11:15 Written by External Post Tuesday, 12 January 2010 11:15
Yahoo has finally offloaded its open-source enterprise e-mail division, Zimbra, to VMware. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the sales price is believed to be far less than for the company in September 2007. reported that the sales
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Networked Christmas Tree Controlled By Twitter
Last Updated on Thursday, 24 December 2009 09:15 Written by External Post Thursday, 24 December 2009 09:15
An anonymous reader writes ‘What’s Twitter good for? How about crowd sourcing control of your Christmas tree. Dangerous Prototypes built an open source, networked Christmas tree that you can control from Twitter. Send a color or hexadecimal color code to
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