February 21 Open Source News

Open source Boston Globe Champ Schuyler Towne, 26, can pick a lock in two seconds. Next month, he'll launch a series of locksport workshops at sprout in Somerville. ...

Pentaho Open Source BI vs. Proprietary Heavyweights at Caesars Palace PR-USA.net (press release) Pentaho, the commercial open source alternative for business intelligence (BI), will take part in "Developing Your BI Tool Strategy and BI Bake Off" at TDWI ...

People on the move, Feb. 21 San Jose Mercury News The Cupertino provider of open-source customer relationship management software named Chuck Coulson vice president of business development. ...

Digital Latitudes' New Online Onboarding Services and New Open Source Learning ... PR-USA.net (press release) Digital Latitudes, Inc. announced today a new customizable online onboarding program and a new open source learning offering to give firms of all sizes the ...

Cries for Help via Text Messages Are Used to Direct Aid to Haiti New York Times ... co-founder of FrontlineSMS:Medic, an aid group that provides free open-source software communication for medical workers in developing countries. ...

Pre-release Chrome OS now supports NVIDIA Ion graphics acceleration Liliputing Google's Chrome OS won't be officially launched until later this year, but the netbook-centric operating system is open source. And that means that anybody ...

What/When are the Minds Behind ohloh.net Doing to Turn Geeknet (LNUX)s World ... Motley Fool (blog) >>#11 [1]. Ohloh.net. How has ohloh.net contributed to: Geek.net's contribution margins?, ROE?, revenue growth?, sourceforge.net's competitive strategy? and ...

Google: Antisocial networking Financial Times For now, the mobile industry has not reacted to Google's incursions by repelling it: its open-source Android software is viewed as an independent platform ...

Top 10 Windows Media Center Plug-Ins and Boosters Lifehacker Media Browser somewhat evens the playing field between Windows Media Center and its open-source XBMC/Boxee competition by providing movies, TV shows, ...

Is the MeeGo joint venture a danger to Android? AndroidSPIN (blog) We are taking the best pieces from these two open source projects and are creating the MeeGo software platform. Both teams have worked for a long time to ..