The Wharton School selected the top 30 innovations in the last 30 years. 1. Internet/broadband/WWW (browser and HTML) 2. PC/laptop computers 3 … ) 7. Microprocessors 8. Fiber optics 9. Office software 10. Non-invasive laser/robotic surgery 11. Open source software and services (e.g., Linux,) 12. Light emitting diodes (first real

Barbara Zwick, from the European clinical trial Evidence and Performance Blog recently published an interview of Ben Baumann, … that OpenClinica can accelerate time-to-market. First, open source software can be much easier and quicker … Director of Business Development at Akaza Research. The interview discusses how open source EDC

Sponsors of CMS Report Submitted by Bryan on February 28, 2009 – 2:29pm While the world economy may be a little shaky, … the following sponsors for their support. Acquia – Acquia is a commercial open source software company providing products, services, and technical support for the open source Drupal social publishing

After trying several of the most popular releases, I finally settled on Ubuntu which is based on Debian Linux … by the development of quality open source software (see also sourceforge.net), unfortunately the list of security

PC World – For as long as Linux has existed, PC World editors have watched closely as the open source OS has grown and evolved from a student project … and the world of open source software.

Honest, I don’t know how I get caught up in this stuff. I’m a member of the Bay City Alliance group, “an informal group for communicating, marketing, and planning events and celebrations” (per BlueGin Yifu, the group owner).  Keeping in mind that I enjoy a good celebratory event or two at Second Arts,

Via Adam Greenfield’s Speedbird comes a link to the unbook .  Big quote for folks who do not wish to click through: 1. An unbook is never finished, but rather continually updated, based on feedback from users andtheir evolving needs. 2. An unbook is released in versions. As in open source software

[ google-chrome]Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier … with lightning speed from any new tab. Google Chrome is an open source web browser developed by Google. Its software architecture was engineered from scratch (using components from other open source soft

Novell, Red Hat — What’s the Diff? Linux Today Sat, 02/28/2009 – 04:04 InternetNews: “There is a popular notion among open source advocates that open source software will do well in a recession as enterprises seek low cost alternatives. That doesn’t mean that Linux and open source

In the ongoing coverage of exploring new startups coming out of Australia, today we explore a promising startup – GoPC www.gopc … and specialises in Outsourcing projects (network and software development). It’s now been running 28

Even notice that you can hardly use a computer anymore without being in somebody’s cross-hairs? Somebody, somewhere, is always out to get you … know that they already own a suite of GPL’d software. Make them think that they have to pay coins

In a presentation at the Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE) … source software projects that are trying to build close ties with corporate adopters and contributors … role in establishing the company’s open source program. In her current position as the head honcho

Trujillo departure: Live Twitter feed Sol Trujillo’s leaving Telstra; but what do Australians on Twitter think about it? … 25, 2009 6:34 AM PST Government promises more open-source use The government has announced its policy on open-source software, and says it will attempt to avoid vendor ‘lock in’ and save

As seen in this TechFlash article, Microsoft has launched a patent suit against TomTom, a seller of (Linux-based) navigation devices … for years that elements of the open-source operating system violate its patents. However, Microsoft says open-source software is not the intended focal point of the action.” The complaint PDF

The software giant used to call open-source software a cancer, but now it plans to embed open-source into most of its products, according to executive Bob Muglia.

Chicago (IL) – Cuba has begun launching its own version of Linux, named Nova … various institutions along toward open-source software.” Cuba has 11.4 million citizens, only about 1.4 … . The open-source operating system is being employed as Cuba tries to avoid licensing fees

New Microsoft patent-infringement case involves Linux Posted by Mary Jo Foley @ 3:17 pm Categories: Corporate strategy, Legal, Linux, … its patents. However, Microsoft says open-source software is not the intended focal point of the action … Microsoft and many in the open source community when he claimed a couple of yeas ago that free software

A Photographer’s Website – Foto Baja Mex 25 February, 2009, at 4: … as events are shot. By using open source software for the blog and gallery we were able to develop

freed.in was held on 20-21 February 2009 . You can find l oads of pictures from freed.in on its Flickr group . As always, it was held at JNU … . In the true spirit of a conference on free and open source siftware, the ‘chief guest’ at freed.in … talking about a project they’re spearheading called ‘Open Source Drug Discovery’ which uses idle time

The UK Government has said it will accelerate the use of open source software in public services.

Awesome booth volunteers Noel and Erez! In the elevator this morning, a person asked me if I was with the SCaLE conference … and open source software. During Joe Brockmeier’s keynote, he asked the crowd to raise their hands if they were already contributing to an open source project, and less than 1/3 of the crowd raised

A snapshot from a molecular dynamic simulation of the folding of a mutant protein found in chicken intestines. New open-source software permits faster simulations of molecular motion on desktop computers … a tiny fraction of the process on their desktop computers. But a new open-source software package

Super Grub Disk is a bootable floppy, cdrom or usb that help you to deal with boot problems. You can automatically restore Grub on your MBR. * Development Status: 5 – Production/Stable * Environment: Curses * Intended Audience: Developers, End Users/Desktop, System Administrators * License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Super Grub Disk is a bootable floppy, cdrom or usb that help you to deal with boot problems. You can automatically restore Grub on your MBR.    * Development Status: 5 – Production/Stable    * Environment: Curses    * Intended Audience: Developers, End Users/Desktop, System Administrators    * License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

A day or so ago I was on Twitter helping out some Windows 7 users and remarking about Windows 7 and its beta … that he is an fan of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS).  I am guessing the BSOD on his background … agreed and I am sure he will be here with commentary as soon as he can.  Open discussion

Open source CRM vendor SugarCRM is one of a few companies to embrace open source and cloud computing in a big way … . Just recently SugarCRM launched a new way to meld Internet services and open source software … . SugarCRM is interesting to watch because of the pace of innovation they bring to open source and how

by Nick Svengali The following are a few ideas for those researching fast web design and marketing: … To Make Software For You And Give It Away Free. This can work very well indeed. Look around at the most … backlink put in it? – Beware The Latest $49/$97/$149 Software. There are many of web marketers who’

Please, everyone settle down. I am not starting a flame thread here but I would like you to read these ten reasons why Linux will stomp over … with age. And this improvement isn’t limited to the kernel. Look at how desktops, end-user software

Ben White shows us the latest equipment for Africa Interactive mobile reporters … that will highlight open source software tools to save water in chemical Industries … , so the basic idea was to ‘open it up’ and create a creative atmosphere where new ideas, concepts

One of the most extraordinary – and under-recognised – developments in free software is the blossoming of specialist software applications … source software to create a digital music library system. The software, called Variations, provides … . … This open source release of Variations complements IU’s earlier release of the open source

The market in Britain for software and IT services will shrink over the next two years as the economy continues to contract, … computing, software-as-a-service (SaaS), open-source software and mobile broadband will change the way … the demand for new software licences and related project services”, the report stated. The pervading

February 19th, 2009 | by admin | christian.einfeldt writes “Lovers of both games and Free Open Source Software will be pleased to see that the … . The developers built their gooey world with open-source technologies such as Simple DirectMedia Layer, Open

Being drawn in Joining the RSA as a Fellow has been on the fringes of my attention for some time now. A couple of years ago I was invited to a meeting to tenatively formulate ways forward to do things differently there by Steve Moore . Since that time I have been observing the process of OpenRSA from a distance – infrequently dipping into

techPresident – Why the White House’s Embrace of Drupal Matters Drupal developers are abuzz with the realization that the White House’s new … of Drupal is momentous: Open-source software is the most cost-effective and often the most user-friendly … and afraid of the unknown to look at them. Having such a visible use of open-source software

Internet/Broadband/World Wide Web PC/Laptop Computers Mobile Phones E-Mail DNA Testing and Sequencing/Human Genome Mapping Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Microprocessors Fiber Optics Office Software Non-Invasive Laser/Robotic Surgery Open Source Software and Services Light Emitting Diode products (LEDs) Liquid Crystal Displays (LCDs) Global

As I was sitting here, preparing to write this article, … . When a program would hang, you’d have to open task manager, tell it to kill the program, and wait … to get the process to clear. Not so in Ubuntu/Linux. All you have to kill a program is open the terminal

An Open Source Alternative to Dreamweaver? Submitted by Ross Kendall on Fri, 20/02/2009 – 1:32am. Web and IT I just received an email asking me just that. I see on your site you mention about open source software like open office etc, can you recommend an opensource web design software

February 19th, 2009 | by admin | christian.einfeldt writes “Lovers of both games and Free Open Source Software will be pleased to see that the … . The developers built their gooey world with open-source technologies such as Simple DirectMedia Layer, Open

There are a number of companies making money “selling” open source software. These products can be very attractive to buyers who are considering using open source but do not . There are a number of companies making money “selling” open source software. These products

Make Your Applications Work Together to Work Better For You (For Free!) … that links up other open-source software, such as Joomla and Zimbra; enables you to access them … s one word and starts with M), but there are many open-source programs available at low-to-no cost

Electronic Business using eXtensible Markup Language, commonly known as e-business XML, or ebXML (pronounced ee-bee-ex-em-el) … to promote development and adoption of ebXML-based open-source software. This article … and UN/CEFACT whose mission is to provide an open, XML-based infrastructure that enables the global use

The Government of Canada has issued an RFI for information about No Charge Licensed Software ; for some reason they needed to create a new term for open source software.  Since I am a Canadian … Software. Is this an appropriate definition? There is an industry accepted definition of open source

[ virtualbox]VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use … customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under … is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API…Linux Kernel 2.6.28.4 Linux is a clone

Root Domains, Subdomains vs. Subfolders and The Microsite Debate (seomoz) if you’re seeking to maximize your ranking ability for a given piece of content [...] keep it on 1 subdomain under 1 root domain (but feel free to use subfolders as it makes sense) Use yoursite.com/newstuff rather than newstuff.yoursite

We are cordially invite your office to participate in the Free and Open Source Software @ School event (FOSS@SCHOOL) … and communications technology for the people through the use of free and open source software (FOSS

In this Java Tutorial, I will show you how to read the content of an Excel File. The tutorial will read a sample excel file and then print the content to the console. Making tutorials simpler to understand is one of my objectives in this blog. Hopefully you will find this tutorial extremely simple to under how to use Apache POI to read any Excel

Like any industry, Web development has its own lexicon of terms and acronyms. Working with the Web everyday, our team passes these words around the office all day. It’s only when we talk to friends and family about these things that we’re reminded the majority of people have no clue what we’re talking about. Image by rooneyjohn

A bunch of granola chewing hippies freedom loving technologists sent a letter to President Obama, encouraging him to consider open source software. Signed by representatives from Novell, Red Hat, Unisys, and a bunch of other open source solutions companies, the letter is well-written piece of… Read more at techworlds.net

To mark its 30th anniversary, PBS’ “Nightly Business Report” … . Open source software and services (e.g., Linux, Wikipedia) 10. Non-invasive laser/robotic surgery (laparoscopy) 9. Office software (Spreadsheets, word processors) 8. Fiber optics

I have compiled a list of programs and software I use on my home PC … all of my passwords. It is freely available, open-source and best of all – cross platform. This means

On Thursday, Mozilla labs unveiled a new open source project for developers called “ Bespin ” … Mozilla Bespin run all modern browsers and most importantly All of the source code underlying the Bespin experiment is being released as open source software under the the MPL

Open source software and an RSS flaw in Safari top the list of fixes, … different issues, spanning video, server and open source packages. Among the fixes is an Apple update … in the latest update for a number of different open source programs that it includes, with updates

UNIX Billion Second Birthday BBQ John DuBois’ ‘UNIX Billion Second Birthday BBQ’ photo gallery. 9 pictures in this gallery of photographs … EpochTimeToDate CFLib is a open source collection of user defined functions written in ColdFusion. … Converts … for Epoch2Time freshmeat maintains the Web’s largest index of Unix and cross-platform open so

If you’re running your own business website and need to update the contents on a regular basis, chances are you would benefit from having a CMS ( … can be made in seconds. For those familiar with blogging software, content management systems act … provided by the CMS software). The content editors can then create and change site content

Great news! On Thursday evening, the Drupal Association board chose Paris to host the next European Drupalcon … is a good city for open source software, a great city for Drupal and, frankly, a fantastic place to visit

Not only is TuxRadar reporting that Linux Format magazine sales are up 13 … , a planned LinuxFest , and many other groups using Linux and Open Source software the New Mexico Linux

Federal government puts out a call for information on free software Last Updated: Thursday, February 12, 2009 | 7:55 PM ET Emily Chung, … more use of open-source software. Public Works and Government Services Canada is accepting … CBC News The federal government has put out a call for information about software that doesn’t

AAAS: Synthetic biology soon to go open source? Stanford University’s Drew Endy is still one of the great enthusiasts for synthetic biology: … scale,” he says. What you want is something more in the spirit of open source software, in which mechanisms like the Creative Commons license allows people to reused the software freely in non

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Unless you are a holy crusader in the Vim vs Emacs war, you are probably less than 100% satisfied with your code editor/IDE … . It has to run on both Windows and Linux, and I’d greatly prefer it to be free and open source software

Replace Outlook With Evolution: An Open Source Groupware Suite) and so I thought I should offer another alternative groupware suite … useful of all project management tools available for open source. But Planner … as one of the most important open source office tools. Planner handles resources, resource usage

The Collaborative Software Initiative (CSI) today posted an open letter to President Barak Obama on open source software…. Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written

These are my notes from Sam Wynn and Scott Phipps’ presentation “How We Use Open Source Software and Why You Should Too” at OTA 2009.

February 10th, 2009 | by admin | jammag writes “Combining GPL and proprietary software is ever more common, … them legally. As sticky as the issue is, there is an answer, as self titled “open source strategic … source software you’re using, and knowing why you need to combine these disparate licenses

February 10th, 2009 | by admin | jammag writes “Combining GPL and proprietary software is ever more common, … them legally. As sticky as the issue is, there is an answer, as self titled “open source strategic … source software you’re using, and knowing why you need to combine these disparate licenses

[ mapofthephilippines.gif][ http://www.itexpo.com.ph/images/logos/associations/assoc/PSIA.jpg] … on what area perhaps the Philippines can focus on where it can have an advantage? Open source software … are just around USD 7,250, open source software lowers the barrier to entry for many small, innovative

February 10th, 2009 | by admin | A group of prominent open source software vendors have written an open letter to the Obama administration encouraging broader adoption of open source software.Read more…

Overview Songbird is an open source music player, highly customizable, featuring last.fm scrobbling and many interesting add-ons … to test Songbird, and the main reason that pushed me to it was the fact that it’s an open source program. I feel that open source software have a better chance of developing into outstanding programs

I don’t see myself using it much, but it looks great. It’s nice to know there are legitimate alternatives out there for when Apple eventually pisses me off irreconcilably. This entry is taggedapplications, miro, open source, software, Video. #You May

Complete Overview of Linux Complete Overview of Linux By: … being open source software, there is no one version … system in 1991. Linus Torvalds made Linux open source with the GNU (GPL) (General Public License

New Open-source Software Permits Faster Desktop Computer Simulations Of Molecular Motion ScienceDaily (Feb. 7, 2009) … only a tiny fraction of the process on their desktop computers. But a new open-source software … professor of chemistry at Stanford University and principal investigator of the Open Molecular Mechanics

February 7th, 2009 | by admin | joesmart writes to tell us that new work on OpenChange and KDE seeks to bridge the gap between groupware … on code developed for Samba 4. It is open source software licensed under the GPL version 3. Hards … compatibility and open source. KDE developer Brad Hards spoke at the Linux.conf.au conference

February 7th, 2009 | by admin | palegray.net writes “Teachers are sorely in need of an education in what open source software is, what it isn’t, … blog entry exposes a ‘higher education’ culture of apathy, lies, and fear of open source software

New Open-source Software Permits Faster Desktop Computer Simulations Of Molecular Motion February 7, 2009 ? A new open-source software package is making it possible to do complex simulations of molecular motion on desktop computers at much faster speeds than has been previously possible

THERE’S no shortage of quality music player/jukebox software available on the internet and in the past I’ve used iTunes, Amarok, Rhythmbox, Exaile, Audacious and several others.But Songbird

I disabled haskell-mode 2.4’s code that changes the current directory after it detects your project root … of open source software in Haskell. Whichever comes first. Note: my research code is notionally open source, but I’m too lazy to package it up in a cabal project. HOWEVER, I am going to put

Posted by Basil Vandegriend on February 7th, 2009. Categories: Professional Tags: interview, IT careers, … for Software Developers by Jurgen. I liked the article and have used some of the questions, but it got me thinking that software developers and other I.T. professionals deserve to have the same

WordPress Plugin Releases for 02/07 New PluginsCustom Field TaxonomiesA WordPress plugin that let’s you use custom fields as ad-hoc taxonomies … and the leading open source software (Jeroen Wijering’s FLV Player and Geoff Stearns’ SWFObject Javascript

New Plugins Custom Field Taxonomies A WordPress plugin that let’s you use custom fields as ad-hoc taxonomies … using standards-compliant markup and the leading open source software (Jeroen Wijering’s FLV Player

New Plugins Custom Field Taxonomies A WordPress plugin that let’s you use custom fields as ad-hoc taxonomies … using standards-compliant markup and the leading open source software (Jeroen Wijering’s FLV Player

February 4th, 2009 | by admin | joesmart writes to tell us that new work on OpenChange and KDE seeks to bridge the gap between groupware … on code developed for Samba 4. It is open source software licensed under the GPL version 3. Hards … compatibility and open source. KDE developer Brad Hards spoke at the Linux.conf.au conference

February 4th, 2009 | by admin | palegray.net writes “Teachers are sorely in need of an education in what open source software is, what it isn’t, … blog entry exposes a ‘higher education’ culture of apathy, lies, and fear of open source software

Open Source Software – Yes We Can “Yes We Can … in doing is exploring how the United States government can use open source software rather than rely … growing awareness of open source software solutions and how they might be considered as alternatives

PDF Creator is an Open Source software program to create pdf documents by adding itself as a virtual printer that can be used to send and convert … , Open Source, pdf, pdf creator, pdf document, pdf printer, pdf server, virtual printer, windows … makes use of Ghostscript to provide the pdf functionality. The pdf software generator comes

PDF Creator February 4th, 2009 PDF Creator is an Open Source software program to create pdf documents by adding itself as a virtual printer that … Creator Tags: adobe pdf, ghostscript, Open Source, pdf, pdf creator, pdf document, pdf printer, pdf server … , pdf server, virtual printer, ghostscript, adobe pdf, software, Windows, windows software, open

KDE on Windows: Subversive, but Useful Linux Today Wed, 02/04/2009 – 15:03 Datamation: “KDE on Windows is such a subversive project that it is impossible to resist. Who else except the free and open source software (FOSS) community would take a desktop for Unix-like systems and port

Datamation: “KDE on Windows is such a subversive project that it is impossible to resist. Who else except the free and open source software (FOSS) community would take a desktop for Unix-like systems

By Richard Danter Motorola announced yesterday it will ship an Android-based phone by the end of the year … pushing a major manufacturer towards further embracing Open Source Software? Sure the numbers don’t

FOSDEM, the Free and Open Source Software Developers’ European Meeting I’m excited to be heading up to Brussels, Belgium this Friday … the community and industry are dealing with increasing commercial pressure on open source projects I also expect to be meeting a lot of people in the free and open source community and have many

How to Use Mail Merge with AbiWord and KOffice If you have read Solveig Haugland’s “Mail Merge in Openoffice.org: Everything You Need to Know,” then you already know how to use mail merge to reduce your workload in one free and open source software application (FOSS). However, OpenOffice.org

Crackulous, the one-click cracking application for software purchased from Apple’s AppStore, was previously only available to a select few … . Although the software package was publicly released just hours ago, the source for this version (0.9) isn’t yet available. Crackulous is set to be released as open source software so that many people

Only 3 days left to register! http://www.socon09.com Friday night is our annual Big Thinking, Big Networking Dinner at [ 2253623991_c49ffc315d_m] … of Cerado, Inc. Cerado was founded in 2002 to provide software and services that enable businesses

LWN.net: “Free and open source software (FOSS) has produced several off-shoots, including the Open Access Movement for academic literature and the Free Hardware Foundation. As the FOSS desktop matures, one of the most important off-shoots is the free font movement.”

Posted by: doxaras on: February 1, 2009 In: Android| GISComment! I have a project with overwhelming budget for GIS and civil protection … is, that the only reliable software is ArcPad that I hate both it’s functionality and the bitter license cost. From what I am aware of, no open source software with similar functionality exists

February 1st, 2009 | by admin | joesmart writes to tell us that new work on OpenChange and KDE seeks to bridge the gap between groupware … on code developed for Samba 4. It is open source software licensed under the GPL version 3. Hards … compatibility and open source. KDE developer Brad Hards spoke at the Linux.conf.au conference

February 1st, 2009 | by admin | palegray.net writes “Teachers are sorely in need of an education in what open source software is, what it isn’t, … blog entry exposes a ‘higher education’ culture of apathy, lies, and fear of open source software

Hi there,I’ve opened a new section in my Website, called OffensiveC0ding … : (automatically generated)AjSaaS: a sample open source Software as a Service applicationMore time than you wantImpending UpgradeBitLoot helps turn ideas into Open Source software

The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century [ The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century] Binding: Paperback Manufacturer: Picador Product Description:  A New Edition of the Phenomenal #1 Bestseller   “One mark of a great book is that it makes you see things in a new way, and Mr

February 1st, 2009 | by admin | joesmart writes to tell us that new work on OpenChange and KDE seeks to bridge the gap between groupware … on code developed for Samba 4. It is open source software licensed under the GPL version 3. Hards … compatibility and open source. KDE developer Brad Hards spoke at the Linux.conf.au conference

February 1st, 2009 | by admin | palegray.net writes “Teachers are sorely in need of an education in what open source software is, what it isn’t, … blog entry exposes a ‘higher education’ culture of apathy, lies, and fear of open source software