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  • WSO2 looks to make SOA easier

    InfoWorld – 2 hrs 7 mins ago

    San Francisco - Open source SOA software vendor WSO2 this week plans to launch a stand-alone version of Carbon Core,  which has served as the heart of Carbon, the company' componentized SOA framework built on the OSGi  specification.

  • Firefox 3.5 Can Still Learn From Its Competition

    PC World – Fri Jul 3, 10:45 am ET

    While Mozilla lights a fire under competing browsers with support of emerging Web standards with Firefox 3.5, it can still improve its performance, reliability, and usability.

  • 'BugDay' Planned To Fix Bugs in New Firefox 3.5

    NewsFactor – Thu Jul 2, 2:40 pm ET

    Mozilla is scrambling to fix bugs in its just-released Firefox 3.5 browser. Users are posting complaints about problems across the Web.

  • Moblin: a First Look at Intel's Open-Source OS

    PC World – Thu Jul 2, 8:35 am ET

    Moblin is an Intel-created open-source operating system for netbooks and, specifically, the kind of people who use them.

  • Red Hat Program Certifies Partners to Put Linux on Cloud

    PC World – Wed Jul 1, 1:30 pm ET

    Red Hat has launched a new partner program to make sure its enterprise Linux and JBoss software are core components of a cloud-computing infrastructure, and to guarantee that Red Hat-based applications will run reliably and safely in the cloud.

  • Beyond Firefox 3.5: A Sneak Peek at Mozilla's Next Browser

    PC World – Tue Jun 30, 5:33 pm ET

    Mozilla's Firefox 3.5 is off to a running start. The new browser, boasting significant speed increases and a host of added features, was officially released Tuesday morning. By mid-afternoon, the program had surpassed 1.6 million downloads worldwide and was steadily climbing, according to Mozilla's real-time tracking utility.

  • 5 Features Internet Explorer Will Likely Crib from Firefox 3.5

    PC World – Tue Jun 30, 4:35 pm ET

    Mozilla's Firefox 3.5 browser launched today not only besting Internet Explorer 8 when it comes to features, in my opinion, but also when it comes to speed. As I'll predict here, for its next Internet Explorer launch Microsoft will crib innovative Firefox 3.5 features and skimp on giving credit. After all, haven't we seen Microsoft do this before? Remember where you spotted browser tabs the first time?

  • Firefox 3.5 Increases Speed, Protects User Privacy

    NewsFactor – Tue Jun 30, 4:16 pm ET

    Mozilla on Tuesday released a Web browser that it said is 10 times faster than its original browser. One year after releasing Firefox 3.0, the Mountain View, Calif.-based nonprofit released Firefox 3.5, which it said is two times faster than Firefox 3.0 and 10 times faster than Firefox 2.

  • IBM offers open source machine learning compiler

    InfoWorld – Tue Jun 30, 1:23 pm ET

    San Francisco - IBM is announcing on Tuesday availability of an open source machine learning compiler, which the company said intelligently optimizes applications, thus meaning shorter development times and bigger performance gains.

  • Office-compatibility torture test

    InfoWorld – Tue Jun 30, 6:00 am ET

    San Francisco - In InfoWorld's tests using complex Word and Excel documents, OpenOffice.org 3.1 failed to deliver on its promise of better Microsoft Office interoperability, severely mangling our Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel test data files.

  • The better Office alternative: SoftMaker Office bests OpenOffice.org

    InfoWorld – Tue Jun 30, 6:00 am ET

    San Francisco - In the kingdom of business productivity, Microsoft Office reigns supreme.

  • Why is Microsoft Office so hard to kill?

    InfoWorld – Tue Jun 30, 6:00 am ET

    San Francisco - It's the question that vexes free open source software advocates and commercial competitors around the globe: Why is Microsoft Office so difficult to dislodge from its perch atop the IT heap? Is it the exclusive bundling deals? The deep Software Assurance entrenchment? Steve Ballmer's backroom deal with the devil?

  • The many faces of OpenOffice

    InfoWorld – Tue Jun 30, 6:00 am ET

    San Francisco - A chameleon: That's what I think of when I ponder the myriad variations on the OpenOffice.org theme that have cropped up in recent years.

  • First look: Microsoft Office 2010

    InfoWorld – Tue Jun 30, 6:00 am ET

    San Francisco - Call it serendipity. As I was working through my review of OpenOffice.org 3.1 and SoftMaker Office 2008, an early version of the Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Microsoft Office 2010 was conveniently leaked to the Internet.

  • Group Pitches Linux for Free Netbooks From Mobile Carriers

    PC World – Tue Jun 30, 3:10 am ET

    Mobile carriers may start giving away netbooks for free, and Linux-based application stores could help them profit by doing it, the head of a Linux advocacy group told Chinese companies on Monday.

  • Mozilla Confirms Tuesday Release for Firefox 3.5

    PC Magazine – Mon Jun 29, 7:24 am ET

    Mozilla confirmed that it is scheduled to release Firefox 3.5 on Tuesday morning.

  • NetBeans IDE enhanced for teams, scripting

    InfoWorld – Mon Jun 29, 12:00 am ET

    San Francisco - NetBeans, the open source IDE championed by Sun Microsystems, is being fitted with additional capabilities this week for development teams and scripting languages.

  • Firefox 3.5 eyed for Tuesday release

    InfoWorld – Fri Jun 26, 7:36 pm ET

    San Francisco - Mozilla is expected to release its Firefox 3.5 browser on Tuesday morning, a company representative said on Friday afternoon.

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