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 Google Releases Android Scripting Environment: Open Source Posted by: comforteagle
From the Giggity dept.:
The Android Scripting Environment (ASE) brings scripting languages to Android by allowing you to edit and execute scripts and interactive interpreters directly on the Android device. These scripts have access to many of the APIs available to full-fledged Android applications, but with a greatly simplified interface that makes it easy to:
* Handle intents
* Start activities
* Make phone calls
* Send text messages
* Scan bar codes
* Poll location and sensor data
* Use text-to-speech (TTS)
* And more
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Google Announces Chrome For Mac and Linux: Open Source Posted by: comforteagle
From the For Devs. Eyes Only dept.:In order to get more feedback from developers, we have early developer channel versions of Google Chrome for Mac OS X and Linux, but whatever you do, please DON'T DOWNLOAD THEM! Unless of course you are a developer or take great pleasure in incomplete, unpredictable, and potentially crashing software.
How incomplete? So incomplete that, among other things , you won't yet be able to view YouTube videos, change your privacy settings, set your default search provider, or even print.
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OpenSolaris 2009.06 Released: Open Source Posted by: comforteagle
From the Oracle of the Sun dept.:
Today marks the release of OpenSolaris 2009.06, the third release of the OpenSolaris Operating System.
We've shifted gear, bringing you a new set of features right to your door, from the desktop to the data center. For a complete list of what's new with this release, check out the OpenSolaris 2009.06 What's New Guide
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KOffice 2.0.0: Open Source Posted by: comforteagle
From the Hats Off! dept.:
The KOffice team is extremely pleased to finally announce version 2.0.0 of KOffice. This release marks the end of more than 3 years of work to port KOffice to Qt 4 and the KDE 4 libraries and, in some cases, totally rewrite the engine of the KOffice applications.
Over the last few years, the KOffice team has reworked the framework into an agile and flexible codebase. Our intention was to increase integration between the components of KOffice, decrease duplication of functionality and ease maintenance and development of new features. Furthermore, new approaches to UI design and interacting with the user have been implemented to support the new capabilities.
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New Chrome Rev. Speedier!: Open Source Posted by: comforteagle
From the Faster Pussycat! dept.:
...We've increased our focus on speed and also added some of the most-requested features. Some of these improvements made it into the Beta version that we first released in March, and we've continued to improve the Beta since then. Today, we are moving the Beta version to the stable channel for all users to enjoy.
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Ex-Microsoft Employee: Free Software Will Kill Microsoft: Open Source Posted by: comforteagle
From the Not JUST Microsoft dept.:
...What can Microsoft do to curb the threat of free software, and what do you think it will be willing to do?
Other than adopting Linux, there is little Microsoft can do. Even if they did embrace it, not only would it hurt their profit margins, they'd be forced to explain to customers why they should continue to pay for Office if the company believes the free OpenOffice is good enough....
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GlusterFS 2.0 Release: Open Source Posted by: comforteagle
From the Get Your Cluster On dept.:
GlusterFS v2.0 has gone through a major revamp in design and development since v1.3. Thanks to thousands of initial users who provided us great feedback and bug reports. There are a number of production deployments now. GlusterFS uses existing disk file systems (such as Ext3, XFS, ZFS..) to store your data as regular files and folders. You can restore the data, even after you uninstall GlusterFS.
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Secret EU Open Source Migration Study Leaked: Open Source Posted by: comforteagle
From the Both Sides of their Mouths dept.:
For 4 years MEP Marco Cappato tried to get access to the EU Council's 2005 open source migration study because he is a member of a responsible IT oversight committee in the European Parliament.
...It is embarrassing! Gartner, when asked if there were any mature public Linux installations in Europe, claimed that there were none... Gartner spread patent and TCO FUD.
Note: This is gonna be juicy!
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Gartner: Use open source to cut 35% from e-commerce costs: Open Source Posted by: comforteagle
From the People Still Don't Know This? dept.:
E-commerce teams within IT departments must do more with less, so they need to maximize their resources through shrewd and clever management, according to Gartner.
Although IT budgets are shrinking anywhere between 5 to 25 percent, IT e-commerce organisations are expected to sharpen the online shopping experiences of their companies' customers.
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Intel and Nokia Developing oFono OS Telephony Stack: Open Source Posted by: comforteagle
From the OhNoiPhone dept.:
Intel and Nokia have announced a joint partnership today to develop oFono, an open-source telephony solution. The oFono software stack is GPLv2 licensed and includes a high-level D-Bus API for use by other telephony applications and a low-level API for communicating with cellular modems and other devices.
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