Tag: Open Source

Open Source Now On Par With Proprietary Software
I’m a huge proponent of open source software. I’ve always found it to be just as good as proprietary software that I would have to pay an arm and leg for. Microsoft Word? Ha, I use...
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BrailleTouch Aids Visually Impaired With Keyboard Of The Future
When you think about it, it really doesn't make any sense that we still use QWERTY keyboards on handheld devices. There are so many characters that it actually requires two or thre...
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Firefox 10 Launching Tomorrow
Firefox is moving on to double digits tomorrow with the release of Firefox 10. PC Mag is reporting that the up...
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NASA’s Code Laid Bare
NASA’s code has now gone open source - cue homebrew rocket ships. Open source development is a great thing. With NASA opening a new open source software-dedicated Web site, it...
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TextSecure App For Android Is Now Open Source
Following the discovery of Carrier IQ, the devious app that stealthily collects data on smartphone users, putting a little more priority on security is worth considering. After all...
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VLC Media Player Coming to Android?
While the Android environment does support various types of media files, one of the knocks on the OS is...
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WordPress Founder Talks Version 3.2, Security, Google, and More
WordPress 3.2 recently launched with hopes of bringing a "faster and lighter" approach to the publishing platform. This la...
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Google Looks to the Crowd to Take On Microsoft and Skype
Google was already starting to compete with Skype a little, by releasing things like video chat within Gmail, but Gmail is only a small segment of people in the broader landscape o...
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Big Data Challenges and What Factual Is Doing about Them
Data has become a very coveted item. There is so much of it, but it is so hard to obtain. It is easier to get now than it ever was before with offerings such as...
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Oracle Turns OpenOffice Into A Community-Based Project
The longtime, free alternative to Microsoft Office will be changing hands in regards to development and supervision as Oracle announced their intentions to turn OpenOffice into a c...
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OpenStack Open Source Cloud Project Sees Rapid Growth
Rackspace Hosting just announced the six-month anniversary of OpenStack, the open source...
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Google Wave Lives on as Apache Wave
Earlier this year Google made an unexpected move when it announced it...
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DMOZ Co-Founder “Crowd Sources” Search with New Search Engine Blekko
Rich Skrenta, co-founder & former CEO of Topix and NewHoo (which went on to become The Open Direc...
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A Brief Look at What Diaspora Will Do
The source code for Diaspora has been released. It has generated a lot of buzz since it gained funding through Kickstarter and Facebook started drawing more privacy scrutiny e...
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Google Open Sources More of Wave So Developers Can Take Advantage
Google has given an update on its immediate plans for Google Wave. As you probably know, the company recently announced that it would be shutting down Google Wave as a standalon...
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