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Yesterday, we discussed a major problem in the fine print of T-Mobile's service plan advisory for the new G1 Android phone: There was a cap on monthly data usage set at a paltry 1GB. Now, only hours later, T-Mobile has retreated and recanted, but the doublespeak still rings....

Interview on Elgg: The open source social networking platform....

Rumor: The next big open source acquisition is upon us.....

Firefox 3.0.2 fixes security issues, especially Mac bugs. The download is here..........

A language translation tool for OpenSocial.....

There's been a lot of talk about the gigantic particle accelerator known as the Large Hadron Collider recently. Lots of people were excited about the search for the theoretical Higgs boson. A few were concerned that it would open a black hole and end life as we know it. Most were disappointed when technical issues forced the Collider's early shutdown for repairs. Few people, though, mentioned that part of the multi-billion dollar project relies heavily on Linux.

On Monday, Michael DeHaan cast his net into Debian/Ubuntu waters, seeking out those who might be interested in packaging and maintaining the Red Hat-centric installation/provisioning server, Cobbler.

DeHaan states that recent additions and improvements added to Cobbler's development branch are shaping the project into a viable alternative to Debian's FAI (Fully Automatic Installation) package.

Red Hat claims it can run five virtual machines for every three that VMware's ESX runs on the same server.....

OSCON outgrows Portland, heads for Silicon Valley.....

Survey: 96 percent of enterprises not deploying Ubuntu server.....

20 reasons to shed the Microsoft yoke and use Linux.....

How the Department of Defense learned to stop worrying and love open source.....

Red Hat acquires Qumranet, an open source virtualization company.....

Dell has an Ubuntu based netbook in the works.....

Ubuntu Linux now tops 8 million users.....

A new model: Open source software after it's acquired.....

Mozilla's Mitchell Baker on Firefox and Chrome.....

Red Hat, along with the City University of New York and Intel, announced yesterday that they are creating the New York City Open Source Solutions Lab. This lab, which will be headquartered at CUNY's Institute for Software Design and Development in Manhattan, is aimed at helping local and state government agencies in New York take advantage of open-source solutions. The lab will provide governments with the ability to develop and test a variety of open-source technologies running on Intel chips.

Red Hat's Project Spacewalk --where is it heading?.....

What does Google Chrome mean for Firefox, and could this be a prelude to Google acquiring Mozilla?.....

Alfresco Software has announced that Adobe has implemented its document collaboration as part of the file sharing features in Acrobat.com......

10 open source companies to watch.....