December 27 Open Source News

Open source became big business in 2009 CNET News by Matt Asay Open source has long been an important development methodology. The biggest surprise of 2009, however, was just how quickly it took center ...

10 biggest Microsoft stories of 2009 Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog) Microsoft should have used open-source software, like most of its competitors (such as Apple and Google) have, but CEO Ballmer hates open-source with a ...

Habl to introduce revolutionary server solution in 2010 AME Info Habl Consultancy, an open source and linux solutions provider headquartered in Dubai Silicon Oasis, promises to announce a revolutionary network server ...

Help File: Wiping your data from your computer Washington Post In Windows, the free, open-source Eraser (http://eraser.heidi.ie) can do the job, but first you need to expose normally hidden folders holding some critical ...

Herhold: Goodbye to the Aughties: The top 10 stories of the decade San Jose Mercury News It's developed an open-source Web browser, video-sharing functions, a mobile phone operating system and sophisticated online mapping. ...

Thunderbird 3 comes up with new search interface Frontline The latest version of the popular open-source desktop email client, Thunderbird 3, was finally released a few days ago and it sports a range of new or ...

Weekend tech reading: Apple registers iSlate.com under dummy corporation? TechSpot ... when it created its rival Internet Explorer (IE), new data suggests that IE is still losing market share, primarily to the open-source Firefox browser. ...

Who needs slides? You can bore 'em with these cool cameras TMCnet It's making up ground on the iPhone fast in terms of number of apps because of its open source approach, which allows more freedom and flexibility and ...