ARM serves Android to continue UK tech export success
Profile: Adrian Bridgwater
Cambridge based ARM continues to be one of the UK's top success stories it seems. The company describes itself as the "world's leading semiconductor intellectual property (IP) supplier" and has certainly carried forward the UK's ability to sell "services" (rather than goods) in recent times. This...
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YaCy aims to break Google’s deadlock on search
Profile: Adrian Bridgwater
Could free and open source software developers ever help break the all-poweful hold that Google has on the search engine market? That's the hope of the YaCy project which this week released version 1.0 of its peer-to-peer search engine. Aiming to create a radical new approach, YaCy's search...
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Linux Mint 12 arrives with DuckDuckGo search engine
Profile: Adrian Bridgwater
This weekend saw the Linux Mint Ubuntu-based distribution post an official notice detailing the launch of version 12. Also known by its accompanying human moniker "Lisa", this free and open source operating system is the brainchild of Clement Lefebvre.
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Mozilla Festival London: a three-ring circus of innovation
Profile: Adrian Bridgwater
The Mozilla Foundation has held its annual gathering of the clans in London this November in what the organisation has called a "three-ring circus of innovation" -- the theme for this year: media, freedom and the web. Mozilla wants to use these events as "brainstorming platforms for open web...
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Desktop Linux with secure cloud functions, openSUSE 12.1 released
Profile: Adrian Bridgwater
The openSUSE project this week reached its version 12.1 release. This latest version of the Linux-based operating system has shipped with the GNOME 3.2 desktop shell, which is distinguished by its use of integrated messaging, a new document manager and a general all round squishing of bugs since...
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Adobe open sources Flex for Flash apps, backs HTML5
Profile: Adrian Bridgwater
News surfaced this week of Adobe's intention to open source its Flex software development kit (SDK), a technology tool designed to provide software developers with a means of creating apps for the Flash runtime.
Adobe's allegiances in this space will now shift to HTML5.
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Bollywood and Kerala driving open source adoption
Profile: Adrian Bridgwater
The Indian state of Kerala is known for its beautiful landscape, its cuisine and warm people, it comparatively high rate of literacy by Indian standards and, more recently, for its adoption of open source software at the governmental and school level. Indian newspaper The Deccan Chronicle reports...
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Oracle claims Solaris 11 is “first” cloud operating system
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Fedora tips its brim to cloud computing with release 16
Profile: Adrian Bridgwater
The Fedora Project has reached version 16 of its Red Hat sponsored free open source operating system distribution. With updated support for cloud computing and virtualisation technologies, the project's developers are ebullient about the new release. With the rise in popularity of Android in...
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Does Oracle’s Larry Ellison care about open source and Java?
Profile: Adrian Bridgwater
Oracle's indefatigable efforts to convince the world that it truly will pump effort and resources into open source continue. The newest "stewards" of the Java platform and language have used the Java OpenJDK mailing list to detail plans for the JavaFX rich Internet application (RIA) platform. In...
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