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Openmoko's open source NeoFreeRunner Linux-based phone went on sale in the U.S. starting Friday.....

Open source and Amazon's Kindle.....

Will the Nokia Symbian open source OS be any match for LiMo's mobile platform?......

Did Linspire sell to Xandros out of frustration with trying to promote desktop Linux?.....



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Laconica: Can Open Source Save Twitter?

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Lots of people are addicted to microblogging service Twitter - including substantial chunks of some open source communities. There are a fair number of Ruby on Rails developers twittering these days, for example. But Twitter's scaling and reliability issues lately have many people wondering whether it's time to look for an alternative. Identi.ca, backed by open source package Laconica, wants to be that alternative.


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6 Free Tools For Creating Top-Notch Documents

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I use a ton of software applications, but a major portion of the time I spend using a computer goes to writing, and creating documents. There are many good open source tools for everything from word processing, to desktop publishing, to booklet creation, to weaving words and graphics together. In this post, I'll cover six free applications--five of them open source and one freeware app--that can help you create eye-catching documents.


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Looking for Landmarks--Out There On the Grid

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Recently, OStatic covered Eucalyptus, an open source infrastructure for cloud computing on clusters that duplicates the functionality of Amazon's EC2, using the Amazon command-line tools directly. We've also been covering several interesting projects focused on cloud computing. Rich Wolski, who directs the Eucalyptus project at U.C. Santa Barbara, is an expert on grid computing, and was kind enough to share with me some of the other open source projects he finds notable in this space.


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Sourceforge Community Choice Awards Finalists--Who's Missing?

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Now that Sourceforge.net has announced the finalists in its Community Choice Awards for best open source applications in various categories, I find a number of my favorite applications missing from the list. Don't get me wrong--this time around, Sourceforge allowed the community to vote, so I don't question how the finalists were arrived at. I just wish a few applications that are near and dear to me got some recognition. Matt Asay already weighed in with his ideas on which applications are missing. Here are a few non-finalists that I wish were finalists.



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Microsoft Does the Right Thing for Sandcastle

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A few weeks ago we reviewed the case of the Microsoft Sandcastle help file builder. At the time, you may recall, the project had been removed from Microsoft's CodePlex site because of a discrepancy between license and action: the license was the open-source MSPL, but the source code was nowhere to be found.


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Essential Firefox Extensions for Version 3 Tinkerers

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Now that the new version of Mozilla's Firefox browser is out, many of us are still busy customizing it with favorite extensions, and more. Slowly but surely, I've been able to get my favorite extensions working as I want them to, including the libraries of information that some of them are designed to manage. I continue to find updates to many extensions for the new Firefox, and I notice that others around the web are doing so as well. Here are some top recommendations.


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Citrix CTO Simon Crosby on Virtualization

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Lately, we've written quite a bit about virtualization, including Red Hat's entry into the race, and virtual data center strategies.? Today, on our sister site GigaOm, Stacey Higginbotham has an interview with Citrix CTO Simon Crosby. Crosby was the former CTO of open source virtualization company XenSource (which Citrix acquired). He discusses Xen, Microsoft, VMware, cloud computing, and more. Check it out.


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Ratproxy is Google's new open source web security assessment tool.....

Cutscape.com is dedicated to open source music video creation.....

UCenter Home is emerging as a popular open source social networking app in China.....

How Compiere open source ERP helped shore up a book company's finances.....

Nine browsers for Linux.....



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Microsoft, Powerset and Open Source Searching

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Last week, following a report in VentureBeat, we wrote about the rumor that Microsoft was set to acquire natural language search company Powerset for $100 million. Turns out the rumor was true, although the terms of the deal are not disclosed. Powerset gets its semantic search muscle from the open source, cluster-based technology Hadoop. As we've discussed before, Hadoop also powers much of Yahoo's search. It looks like Microsoft's LiveSearch is going to be embracing powerful open source clustered search. This could represent a new chapter in natural language search. Find more analysis on GigaOm.


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