October 28 Open Source News

Qualcomm Establishes Open Source Subsidiary istockAnalyst.com (press release) (Source: Datamonitor)Chipmaker Qualcomm has set up a separate wholly-owned subsidiary Qualcomm Innovation Center (QuIC) to focus on mobile open source ...

How Important Is Open Source To Mobile Devices? InformationWeek From the end user perspective, there wasn't really an open source platform for devices. Sure, there was the Yopi device in the late 90's that was based on ...

RIP, open-source evangelism CNET News by Matt Asay With everyone from Qualcomm to UBS to Microsoft embracing open source in one shape or another, the question is no longer "why" to use open ...

What Red Hat's investment in EnterpriseDB means CNET News Red Hat has done heroic work bringing commercial open source to mainstream enterprise adoption. And it's making a difference: arguably billions of dollars ...

StatusNet Gets $875K for Open-Source Microblogging Digital Media Wire Montreal, Canada - StatusNet, the developer of an open-source microblogging service called identi.ca, has raised $875000 in seed funding, TechCrunch reports ...

Defense Department issues new open-source guidance CNET News by Matt Asay The US military is no laggard when it comes to open-source software adoption, but apparently thinks it can do better. ...

Symbian looks for open source, Qt boost Reuters ... all its software to an independent foundation, which will develop it on an open-source basis, meaning all members can freely use and adapt the code. ...

Open source gets vote of confidence from White House FierceCIO Here's some news that may shape your company's decision on the adoption of open-source software: The White House is giving Drupal its seal of approval. ...

Open source nanotech project launched ZDNet An Australian research scientist has launched a project aimed at making nanorobots an open source technology. Adriano Calvacanti (right) compared his ...