January 3 Open Source News

Application packaging for cloud computing: A proposal CNET News This would be extremely beneficial in the PaaS market, where common use of open-source platforms means that there is some level of code portability, ...

Google Chrome passes Safari, releases 'Similar Pages' extension Computerworld (blog) They are actually both based on Apple's Open Source Webkit rendering engine. One could argue that success of one benefits the other because more web ...

Virtual-machine software lets you run Windows on a Mac Washington Post The open-source VirtualBox 3.1 (http://virtualbox.org), a project backed by Sun Microsystems, is free for personal or evaluation use, but you give up a few ...

IT Dept to launch 'Foster Kerala' Express Buzz Trusting in the great potential, it's youngsters have to cut innovative paths in Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) domain, the State Government has ...

RSSOwl Newsreader Updates to 2.0, Adds Feed Importing, Search Features Lifehacker Windows/Mac/Linux: Feed reader RSSOwl has long been a favorite of open-source advocates, despite being a bit less powerful than its competition. ...

Recent reviews from Slashdot readers: Slashdot There are two open source projects that are keeping the Amiga legacy alive even if Amiga Inc. seems to be deader than a doornail and not really doing much ...

Manipulate And Resize Images Ghacks Technology News Free Image Manipulator is an Open Source software program that can perform that semi-automatically. The process can be divided into three steps. ...

Android Motorola Droid and HTC Hero Review from an iPhone Perspective ... the iPhone Blog (blog) To recap: Google offers Android on a liberal, open-source license. Motorola makes MotoBlur for their Android devices, but not for the Droid which uses the ...

Areas Of Interest The Business Insider We've made two investments in this sector to date, MongoDB, a cloud based open source datastore, and Twilio, an API that allows web developers to access ...