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Content by: Ryan Paul
Mozilla has announced new plans to deliver a strong mobile web browser. When it arrives, mobile Firefox will find some seriously entrenched competition.
October 11, 2007 - 08:48AM CT - by Ryan Paul
Google has acquired microblogging underdog Jaiku in an attempt to round out its messaging services. It may also result in bringing order to the world of microblogging, including protocol standardization
October 10, 2007 - 08:46AM CT - by Ryan Paul
Conduit is a powerful new synchronization framework for GNOME with support for numerous desktop applications and web services. The latest version adds support for Google Calendar, automatic image resizing, and a new command-line client.
October 09, 2007 - 04:20PM CT - by Ryan Paul
Although two prominent Thunderbird developers have decided to leave Mozilla to pursue other projects, the newly formed MailCo is ramping up for a bold beginning.
October 09, 2007 - 09:18AM CT - by Ryan Paul
A hacker disabled an assortment of eBay user accounts on Friday after gaining access to the vestigial components of an old eBay administrative system.
October 09, 2007 - 08:48AM CT - by Ryan Paul
Novell asks why the company should be forced to give SCO what are essentially high-risk "loans" that it may never see repaid. Meanwhile, SCO's attempts at a rebirth through reorganization conjure up images of deckchairs and unsinkable ships.
October 07, 2007 - 08:20PM CT - by Ryan Paul
Novell has announced the official release of openSUSE 10.3, which includes KDE 3.5.7 and GNOME 2.20 as well as usability enhancements, improved support for virtualization, and augmented package management capabilities.
October 04, 2007 - 04:56PM CT - by Ryan Paul
The House Committee on Energy and Commerce has started its investigation into the involvement of the telecommunications companies in the NSA wiretap program.
October 04, 2007 - 12:20PM CT - by Ryan Paul
The Blender Foundation's Peach project is now officially in the production process. The project aims to create a 3D movie that will be distributed under a creative commons license.
October 03, 2007 - 04:52PM CT - by Ryan Paul
Sun's bureaucratic corporate culture an refusal to give up dominant control over the OpenOffice.org community is alienating developers and causing fragmentation.
October 03, 2007 - 04:52PM CT - by Ryan Paul
Congress has stalled a Department of Homeland Security program that would have broadly permitted law enforcement use of domestic satellite surveillance.
October 03, 2007 - 10:57AM CT - by Ryan Paul
The innovative Gimmie panel applet has been proposed for inclusion in GNOME 2.22.
October 02, 2007 - 02:43PM CT - by Ryan Paul
Open-source software gains another strong ally, with Barracuda Networks joining OIN. We talk about the importance of protecting Linux from the threat of patent litigation with Barracuda CEO Dean Drako, and discuss how his company uses open-source software.
October 02, 2007 - 02:10PM CT - by Ryan Paul
The Linux Foundation has established a new collaborative agreement with Japan's Information Technology Promotion Agency. The two organizations will work together to promote open standards and Linux adoption in Japan.
October 02, 2007 - 08:12AM CT - by Ryan Paul
The Mozilla SUMO project is preparing to launch the new Firefox Knowledge Base at support.mozilla.com.
October 01, 2007 - 01:56PM CT - by Ryan Paul
Novell employee and kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman will now be working full time on the Linux Driver Project, providing free Linux driver development services to hardware companies.
October 01, 2007 - 01:46PM CT - by Ryan Paul
Net neutrality advocacy group People for Internet Responsibility has proposed establishing a distributed, global network traffic monitoring system to automatically detect—and possibly correct—abusive network operator behavior.
September 30, 2007 - 10:00PM CT - by Ryan Paul
A new GObject-based I/O abstraction layer and a new virtual filesystem framework have been proposed for inclusion in GNOME 2.22.
September 28, 2007 - 04:31PM CT - by Ryan Paul
The Empathy IM client and messaging user interface control toolkit has been proposed for inclusion in GNOME 2.22, with Telepathy as a potential external dependency. Empathy could bring pervasive messaging and presence support to the GNOME desktop.
September 28, 2007 - 04:30PM CT - by Ryan Paul
The EFF has filed a lawsuit against the Department of Justice demanding that the government agency fulfill the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act by processing a request for documentation pertaining to telecommunications industry lobbying efforts.
September 28, 2007 - 09:43AM CT - by Ryan Paul
A recent update to iPhoneDrive gives the software new access to the iTunes and iPhoto media stored on your iPhone or iPod touch. Sharing only the files and media you need between Macs just got a little easier, although if you want access to more than that, you're out of luck.
