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WebOS Soon to be Better than Android Says HP
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WebOS may be down, but certainly not dead, and it's just a matter of time till this troubled HP proprietary OS returns to haunt the arch rival Android and iOS - that's the sort of message HP's CEO Meg Whitman conveyed to the tech...
LibreOffice Growing at a Steady Pace Says TDF
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According to statistics revealed by The Document Foundation (TDF), LibreOffice is expanding at a rapid pace and surpassing all industry expectations. The data provided by TDF (see infograph below) shows that, as of today, near...
Open Source Community Unveils €200 Spark Tablet
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Those looking actively for an alternative tablet that embodies the Open Source philosophy might consider the just-released Spark, which runs the Plasma Active UX, an open source platform based on Linux with KDE Plasma...
IBM to close down Lotus Symphony in favour of Apache OpenOffice
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According to reports, IBM's Lotus Symphony office suite's latest and most likely final version was dished out earlier last week, with the Lotus Symphony office suite aimed specifically at users looking for a free alternative to...
Open source: The Best Choice For Big Data
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Just 12 months ago, even the largest organisations lacked the infrastructure, tools and skills to turn large datasets into business insight. Today, though, the world has changed. A combination of low-cost, commodity hardware and...
Late News: THQ Fires Staff, Grand Theft Auto on Asus Transformer Prime, HP WebOS Open Source Plan
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THQ is set to make redundant a large portion of its publishing and admin team, though the five main internal studios won't be affected by these changes. The game publishing giant has been reshuffling its business recently in the...
HP’s Open Source Release Plan for WebOS
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Hewlett-Packard has announced its schedule for open sourcing of the WebOS source code and tools. In addition, the company also assured that it will be pushing the development consistently to turn the troubled OS into a true open...
Late News: Facebook Subscribe, Google Recommends Changes to TCP, Open Source HP WebOS, Motorola Sues Apple
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Facebook announced on Wednesday that ever since the launch of ‘Subscribe' feature in November last year it has attracted thousands of journalists. According to the social media giant, journalists are increasingly using the...
HP WebOS To Go Open Source
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On Wednesday HP declared that they plan to gift the webOS to the open source community in the month of September this year under the Apache license. Last year, HP dug the grave for TouchPad and announced in December that the...
Google’s Android App Inventor Goes Open Source
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Google, along with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has decided to open source the Android App Inventor code The developers at MIT stated that for the time being the App Inventor will not accept any contribution made...
AM News: Samsung Galaxy Note Update, RIM Changes Leadership, Sony Xperia S Features GLONASS
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Samsung has introduced the latest update for Samsung Galaxy Note to bring numerous improvements to this hybrid device. The update focuses on one of the many complaints this device received since it first hit the market. Many...
Samsung to merge Bada mobile phone OS with Tizen platform
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South Korea based consumer electronic goods maker Samsung has announced that it is currently in talks with Intel, to merge its proprietary Bada operating system with the Tizen platform. The move, according to various industry...
Google to spend tens of millions on print adverts educating on user on-line privacy
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Having been subject to some fierce criticism from all concerned, Internet search engine giant Google is reportedly planning to invest a rather hefty amount on adverts in U.S based magazines, newspapers. This is in addition to...
Android's 'clopen' Ecosystem is Taking Toll on Customers
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Mountain View based technology giant Google Inc. never shies away from boasting about the openness of its Android mobile OS platform in comparison to rival platforms such as iOS and Windows Phone. However, the truth seems to be a...
LinkedIn Gives IndexTank Source Code to Open Source Community
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LinkedIn - the social networking site for professionals, has open sourced all the software that it had managed to pocket with the acquisition of the search engine software maker IndexTank. With this move, LinkedIn has now...






