Posts about Open Source Software as of March 15, 2009

The Internet is the biggest innovation of the last three decades according to a survey conducted by Wharton and PBS … surgery (laparoscopy) Open source software and services (e.g., Linux, Wikipedia) Light emitting … , Email, GPS, Internet, Knowledge@Wharton, LCD, LED, microprocessors, mobile phones, MRI, Open Source

Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Image: aradisecreative Introduction: the value of “random access” to diverse Web resources at each stage of disaster management During a disaster, everyday lives are thrown into chaos as once-remote and generalized risks crescendo into a flurry of immediate,

L.K. Advani releases BJP’s IT Vision Document for Transforming India, Empowering Bharat BJP’s pledge: IT for All Har Hindustani ka bank khaata; Har BPL parivar ko smart phone Har gaon mein broadband suvidha; Har school mein Internet shiksha; Sabko rozgaar; Shaasan Janata ke dwaar

The larger a company gets, the more time it must spend in internal communications to make sure everyone’s on the same page … problems is more important than process or lack of process. The good open source software and the good closed source software share this tendency: small groups, engineers unhindered by unnecessary

Computer programming is also known as software program or sometimes it is simply called ‘program’ … software. And when it comes to working on these matters, the experts are the so-called computer programmers or software developers. But where there is software, there should also exist the hardware

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It drives me madness that there is not a legislative mandate that ensures that government’s use open source formats for all government documents … analysis of open source alternatives when making decisions about software etc. However Microsoft flew … , it is now pretty much impossible to open that file now. If you use open source documents this won’t

CNET News Nintendo DS becomes fastest-selling game console in history CNET News, CA He is co-founder of MuleSource, an open – source integration and infrastructure software company, and is a recognized thought leader in open – source software and service-oriented architecture. He is a member of the CNET

According to wikipedia – “An economy which grows over a period of time tends to slow down the growth as a part of the normal economic cycle. An economy typically expands for 6-10 years and tends to go into a recession for about six months to 2 years”. The current defaults on homeloan have led [...]

India’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) said Saturday ahead of parliamentary elections in the country that the national government will standardize on open standards and open source software if the party is elected to power. The BJP is a leading … open source or proprietary software, leaving these decisions to individual government agencies.