The recent buzz of release of the PS3 Slim brought about joy for those who were waiting for a cheaper/smaller/more efficient gaming system. But IT has one BIG trade-off for Open Source enthusiasts — No … Read more
Hardware industry, today, doesn’t have many Open Source players. Few of them are Big like Sun Microsystems( now, Oracle). The popular Hardware player, Sony is quietly pushing forward with a minor revolution, based on open … Read more
Accenture, being the leader in service industry, had been long driven by customer requirements. But now the era is taking a shift. Accenture, as per Andy Zimmerman is now looking into Product solutions: “Open source … Read more
MicroHoo (Yahoo-Microsoft) deal was supposed to monetize Yahoo search — that’s what we thought. But now it looks like it was more than just a Bing deal. Within last few days, we observed something new. Yahoo! … Read more
Android till date were seen on Mobiles. But we knew it was coming. Android being opensource, can occupy almost every Gadget segment we can think of. Run Android on PC in VMWare, Virtualbox Till now … Read more
Today, our web-applications based on java are clunky and harder to maintain. I`ll walk you through – what it is like to develop a web application using a couple of popular tools that are available … Read more
Google is adopting more and more Open technologies everyday. Everything it produces in-house is also OpenSourced to the entire world. Now they seem to open up Video formats to Internet. As a step further, today, … Read more
On the outside, the deal between Microsoft and Yahoo, is not related to Open source, means nothing to it. but there’s a hidden story that finds an analogy. FACT: It’s not a merger. Yahoo’s open source … Read more
Palm is the most developer friendly mobile environment I have ever seen. Previously we mentioned Palm says, Feel Free to Jailbreak Palm Pre. That was the best example of why this is something different from what … Read more
Yesterday’s announcement, Microsoft Releases 20k OpenSource Code to Linux under GPL for the First Time, has come as a alltime biggest surprise for the OpenSource industry. Why an anti-OpenSource company will come on a random day … Read more
Microsoft has long claimed that they are Opensource-friendly. Though there “Official” contribution has always been scanty, a lot of Microsoft employees had been contributing in bulk under the hood. As per the latest story coming … Read more
Earlier in my article about HTML 5, we were excited to mention addition of open source video codec. But the bad news is here. HTML 5 will no longer specify Ogg Theora as its video … Read more
No doubt, you must have upgraded to Firefox 3.5 based on my previous review. And now, good things are taken to a next step. Now, Firefox gets portable. You can install it once on your … Read more
While looking over SourceForge’s downloads recently, I noticed that applications exist in the openSource world just about for every need. OpenSource tools are Not only are they handy (obviously), they are also very recession-friendly. I … Read more
I dont want this answer “nothing”. I sought to ask what the new Administration’s policy may be toward open source. What resulted was a lively discussion of the President’s politics and positions. Not that there’s anything … Read more