Linux, Open Source, & anti Microsoft news

Educationally inclined microcomputer maker Raspberry Pi today revealed that its ARM-based credit card-sized machine is to be taken to coders worldwide by two big-name suppliers.  Lining up to offer the…

One of the supposed advantages of the using SaaS and other cloud services is the idea that someone else handles upgrades so that you don’t have to worry about it. …

Microsoft has launched an all-out assault on Google’s privacy policies, but when it comes to protecting your privacy, Microsoft’s Web site lags behind both Google and Apple, says the privacy…

Apple has been forced to disable push e-mail delivery for iCloud and MobileMe users in Germany this week. The move is thanks to a recent injunction awarded to Motorola as…

The Australian Government’s peak IT strategy group has issued a cautious updated appraisal of currently available office productivity suite file formats, in what appears to be an attempt to more…

With tech companies abandoning the proprietary Flash and Silverlight media players for HTML5, it was inevitable somebody would try to inject DRM into the virgin spec.  Microsoft, Google and Netflix…

Adobe today said that it would stop offering direct downloads of Flash Player for Linux, telling users to move to Google’s Chrome browser, which bundles Flash with its updates.

Redmond’s beef with Google relates to “standard essential patents” that MS rather hysterically claimed could be used by Motorola Mobility to “kill video on the web”.  Like Microsoft, the iPhone…

Google yesterday countered Microsoft’s contention that it’s skirting Internet Explorer’s privacy protection, saying it’s “impractical” to comply with IE’s rules.

After 17 years of existence, the Apache HTTP web server is one of the most successful and dominant open source projects of all time. Today Apache is looking to extend…

Canonical has revealed Ubuntu for Android, a dual-OS concept that allows a smartphone to be used as a desktop when docked.  Ubuntu for Android features a full version of the…

The European Parliament Consumer Committee is on the verge to reform the standardisation process in Europe. The reform recognises patented interface specifications which discriminate Free Software implementations. Royalties over standards…

Litigation between IBM and disgraced UNIX vendor SCO is set to be reactivated, Groklaw reports. The lawsuits, which were subject to an automatic stay imposed by the bankruptcy court, will…

To address the growing Indian Automotive electronics market, Ford Motor has demonstrated its open source platform for automotive electronics named OpenXC at the NASSCOM India Leadership Summit, Ford has demonstrated…

Ever on the cutting edge among government agencies, NASA announced it has shut down its last mainframe to complete its move to smaller, distributed systems running Linux and other systems.