In the second day of a regular set of ITProPortal features, leading up to the start of MWC 2012, we are publishing what is likely to be announced at the mobile phone event in Barcelona - by Nokia. Rumours of what the Finnish...

According to the latest study from Kantar Worldpanel the UK smartphone market is growing at a rapid pace. Now half of the British population (50.3%) own a smartphone and although Android is still at the top of the pecking order,...

It's emerged that Microsoft is currently engaged in talks for the readmission of its Windows hypervisor in the Linux-for-the-cloud project OpenStack, new reports revealed. According to one of the OpenStack movers, Rackspace, the...

In the first of a daily set of ITProPortal features, leading up to the start of MWC 2012, we are publishing what is likely to be announced at the mobile phone event in Barcelona, next week - starting with HTC. Rumours around a...

Security software maker Trend Micro has given its security application, Hijackthis, to the open source community, the company announced. The source code for HijackThis, which was written in VisualBasic, is now available for the...

Google takes a certain amount of pride over the fact that its mobile OS platform Android is open source, more flexible than other rivals in the market such as Apple's iOS and Microsoft's Windows Phone. However, if we believe what...

Google is reportedly planning to dish out the next version of the Android OS, known as Jelly Bean, some time during the second quarter of 2012 - according to unconfirmed reports. The news may sound spicy enough to give an avid...

A rumour has surfaced that Intel's much anticipated Ivy Bridge processors could be delayed, potentially leading to a belated release of Ultrabooks and other hardware. Reported initially by Digitimes, the rumoured delay suggests...

Release of LibreOffice 3.5 has been announced by The Document Foundation (TDF) describing it as "the best free office suite ever". Caolán McNamara, one of the founder and directors of TDF, stated, "We inherited a 15 years...

HP, staying committed to its promise of making WebOS a full-fledged open source platform, has made available some more components of the troubled OS platform to the open source community. The newly released components include the...

Oracle has recently embedded its R programming language, naming it R-acle 11g Quant Edition. The R programming language has been used by above 2 million statisticians, and the company has decided to provide it to the world via...

NGINX, the open source web server, which overtook Microsoft's Internet Information Services to secure the number two spot in the web server market is going to provide commercial support now it has been revealed. The parent...

It's time now to remove all the wrong conceptions prevailing among people about open source software, announced a UK authority. The British government considers the open source platform as a guiding factor for the IT group of the...

Cyber criminals have adopted an open source model with the vision of making development of banking Trojans and other malware far easier than they are today. According to security experts, the new threat emerged after the...

Canada based BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) has announced that its Native software development kit (SDK) for the latest iteration of Blackberry OS - version 10, will be open source. Having based its business model on...