HP is going open source with WebOS

10 Dec, 2011, 12:29 pm IST Padmini Harchandrai Software 1 Comments

After weeks of figuring just what to do with the WebOS platform that HP had acquired along with Palm, they've decided the fate of the operating system. More

Linux turns 20 today

25 Aug, 2011, 4:14 pm IST tech2 News Staff General

25th August 1991 was the day when Linux was conceptualised by a student at University of Helsinki named Linus Torvalds. More

Microsoft and Zend Join Hands for PHP

01 Nov, 2006, 10:13 am IST Aalaap Ghag

Microsoft and Zend Technologies have announced a collaboration to optimize the performance of PHP on Windows. More

Gingerbread Source Code Now Public

18 Dec, 2010, 5:11 pm IST Sriram Gurunathan Smartphones

Android 2.3 Customization free-for-all to begin. More

Google I/O 2011: Let Android @ Home Control your Home

11 May, 2011, 8:55 pm IST tech2 News Staff Science and Technology

New System will allow for home automation via your Android Phone More

Wikipedia Apologizes For Fradulent Editor

08 Mar, 2007, 2:58 pm IST Priyanka Pradhan Windows

Wikipedia is apologetic about the fraudulent profile of its contributer and editor, Essjay. More

MWC 2012: Mozilla, Qualcomm and Telefonica join B2G project

27 Feb, 2012, 6:49 pm IST Roydon Cerejo Windows

An industry alliance, including the top wireless chipset provider, Qualcomm will step up competition in the smartphone ... More

Google Pushes Chromium at Full Speed for Open Sourced Video

12 Jan, 2011, 9:49 am IST Padmini Harchandrai Web services

Announcing full support for WebM and Theora codecs. More

GPLv3 Discussion Reaches Second Draft

31 Jul, 2006, 6:00 pm IST Jayesh Mansukhani Linux

In a very important development in the world of open source software the Free Software Foundation (F... More

Microsoft Offers Support to Mozilla

23 Aug, 2006, 4:00 pm IST Jayesh Mansukhani Linux

Let's face it. Microsoft till date has been no friend of the open-source movement. There is enough bad-blood between open source evangelists and Mic... More

Search Wikia to Debut by Year End?

12 Mar, 2007, 12:46 pm IST Priyanka Pradhan Linux

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales may unveil his open source search engine in the last quarter of 2007. More

Wikia Search Engine Coming Soon!

26 Dec, 2006, 11:50 am IST Priyanka Pradhan Linux

Wikipedia founder plans open source search engine, Search Wikia, for an early 2007 release. More

One Hand Typing with The Keyglove

30 Mar, 2011, 10:04 am IST Anuradha Shetty Input peripherals

The Keyglove technology aims to revolutionize the typing experience! More

OpenOffice Version 2.2 Released

06 Apr, 2007, 12:00 pm IST Priyanka Pradhan

The OpenOffice.org Community announces the release of OpenOffice.org 2.2, the latest version of its open-source office suite. More

Sun Pushes Java Towards Open Source

18 May, 2006, 4:45 pm IST Jayesh Mansukhani

In a very intriguing move at the recent JavaOne conference, Sun Microsystems recently revealed that it has decided to change the license of its Java t... More

Baidu To Now Develop its Own Mobile OS

07 Jul, 2011, 4:19 pm IST Anuradha Shetty

Popular Chinese search engine, Baidu is all set to make its foray into the booming mobile operating system market, by developing its own mobile OS market. More

Open-source Violates 235 Patents - Microsoft

16 May, 2007, 12:25 pm IST Reuters

Microsoft made its broadest challenge to date against open-source software, including Linux, claiming that they violate 235 Microsoft patents. More

Symbian Goes Open Source Months Ahead of Schedule

06 Feb, 2010, 1:46 pm IST Reuters Mobile phones

The Symbian Foundation said proprietary computer code used in the world's top smartphone operating system was now open source. More

Open Source Computing in Indian languages

21 Mar, 2007, 3:00 pm IST IANS

It's becoming increasingly easy to communicate with computers in mother tongues with free and open source software solutions now working better with a range of languages from Asia. More

After YouTube, Will it be LetsFilm.com?

03 Mar, 2007, 5:12 pm IST Priyanka Pradhan Services

The web 2.0 era opens doors to Wiki film making with open source projects like LetsFilm.com. More