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OStatic Buffer Overflow.....

OrecX, maker of open source voice recording technology, expands its partnerships, customer base.....

The Severed Fifth album--music backed by open source concepts--is downloadable now.....

Funambol announces Lion Sniper localization program and record mobile open source growth.....

Bluenog's unconventional open source strategy.....

Experimental version of Firefox supports MacBook multi-touch gestures.....

 



Mac Users Soon to Enjoy the Sounds of Banshee

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After many years of being an Amarok fan, I was introduced to Banshee. Banshee fast became my media player of choice, due to its ability to handle video and audio files, as well as stream internet radio and podcasts.

Until now, Banshee was only available for Linux. Developer Aaron Bockover explained recently a bit about cross platform development challenges, how to get Banshee for your Mac now, and why the Windows version will be Banshee at heart, but could look very different.



Contest Winners Rig Up Wacky Linux Implementations

Plat'Home, a Japanese Linux company, is announcing today the winners of its Will Linux Work? contest. Launched a month ago, the contest challenged users to come up with interesting, challenging technology solutions leveraging Linux. Full results of the contest including quotes from the winning contestants are found here. Here, below the fold, are some of the more imaginative winning solutions.


Android is Already Reaching Toward Commercial Horizons

With the news that Google's Android platform is now downloadable under an open source license, there are also some clear signs emerging about what's about to happen to Android. One doesn't have to be an expert reader of tea leaves to discern two things that lie ahead for this open source mobile platform: 1) it will arrive in commercially supported versions; and 2) it won't stay restricted to handsets. Here's the proof in the pudding, below the fold.


The Google Phone Arrives, and Android Spreads Out

As JKOnTheRun notes, the T-Mobile G1 phone, running Google's Android platform, is on sale today--at least in San Francisco. In addition, the open source version of Android is now available for anyone to download and use for their devices ﾗ or to improve Android.

Check out the GigaOm review of the G1 phone, and thoughts from GigaOm on where Android will go next.



OStatic Buffer Overflow.....

Apple: A bigger open source enemy than Microsoft?.....

The open source textbook conundrum.....

Google App Engine to support Java?.....

MuleSource launches community and enterprise editions of its SOA registry/repository platform.....

Microsoft blames Red Hat for not making Linux popular enough.....



Introduction to the Moblin Image Creator

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Recently, there has been a lot of buzz surrounding the Moblin Project, designed to bring open source applications to mobile devices. Though the news generally focuses on big name distributions getting involved, Moblin still features the community feel and involvement that draws many to open source projects.

One tool that Moblin offers the community to (hopefully) encourage participation is the Moblin Image Creator. The MIC allows developers to easily define projects, build them for mobile platforms, add applications and function sets to the target system images, and easily create images for live distributions (with the option of enabling rewrites/persistence), installation, or testing in virtual terminals.



Arduino Mashes Up OSS with Modular Hardware

Have you ever heard of Arduino? It's billed as an open source electronics prototyping platform, and proponents claim that it could lead to devices capable of interaction not seen on today's computers. I'd say it's not entirely open source for several reasons, but it does leverage open source software components andﾠ an inexpensive starter hardware platform following many of the principles that open source projects follow. O'Reilly has just announced a $12.99 new book called Getting Started with Arduino, intended to kick-start new Arduino projects.


Linux Foundation Reports on First End User Summit

'Last week, the Linux Foundation held its first Linux Foundation End User Summit in New York. Representatives from many companies were in attendance, including Merrill Lynch, Fidelity, JPMorgan Chase, Dreamworks, the NYSE, and folks from the U.S. Navy were there, too. The folks at the Linux Foundation sent over some highlights of the summit, which you'll find here.


Motorola to Jump On the Android Bandwagon

BusinessWeek has been discussing a new mobile phone from Motorola based on Google's Android platform. It's supposedly going to ship in the second quarter of next year, with a touchscreen similar in size to the iPhone's, and a slide-out QWERTY keyboard. It will be focused on social networking? features. As pointed out on GigaOm, though, Motorola already has two other Linux-based phone efforts going. Check out more in their story,? and some thoughts at JKOnTheRun.


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