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AOL Partners With Funambol For Mobile Syncing

AOL rolled out a beta for an interesting new syncing option for mobile phone users, aptly named AOL Sync. It's powered by the open source mobile push email and sync provider, Funambol. This free service looks like a good alternative to Apple's often-maligned MobileMe or as a convenient way to keep an online backup copy of your phone's contacts in case of data loss.



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Funambol has raised $12.5 million in venture funding for its open-source mobile messaging software business. The company is also now partnered with AOL.....

Alfresco Software is in partnership with Adobe, and Adobe will embed Alfresco Enterprise Content Management (ECM) into the Adobe LiveCycle Enterprise Suite. The companies are focused on enterprise applications that use open source and Web 2.0 standards.....

IBM says it has no plans to open source its DB2 database, after a published report quoted a company executive saying so.....

Forbes: The law goes open source.....



More Momentum at OpenX: A New CEO from Yahoo! and New Digs

There are big moves going on at OpenX. Former Yahoo! ad executive Tim Cadogan has joined the company as CEO, and the firm is moving its headquarters from chilly London to sunny L.A. If you haven't followed the OpenX story, it's an open source hosted ad management solution that competes with offerings such as Google's Ad Manager. It serves about 30,000 mostly small- to medium-sized publishers with billions of ads per day. There are good reasons to look into it as an alternative to Google's offerings, and one of those is that Google's acquisition of DoubleClick makes it both a publisher and an ad server, which may worry some clients from the perspective of conflicts.


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Gartner is out with a new report that predicts that soon all businesses will use open source software--although there are some open source warnings too.....

Wired has an interesting item on supercharging Canon digital cameras using open source software.....

When asked about the future direction of Sun Microsystems, one of the company's new managing directors highlighted open source as a key focus.....

Dojo has stabilized and released a new version of its open source Ajax toolkit, backed by IBM, Sun and AOL....



AOL AIMs For More Openness, with a Catch

The instant messaging world became just a little more open on Wednesday when AOL released Open AIM 2.0. Some of the requirements attached to the release might still turn off open source developers, though.

The first release of Open AIM was in 2006, but that release was missing some vital documentation -- specifically, for the core protocols that work with the AIM backend. Now, theoretically, developers can write libraries/clients that authenticate and communicate just like AOL's official client without having to decipher the protocol first.