RIM’s Blackberry 10 Native SDK will be open source
CANADIAN PHONE MAKER Research in Motion (RIM) has said the Native software development kit (SDK) for Blackberry 10 will be committed to open source.
CANADIAN PHONE MAKER Research in Motion (RIM) has said the Native software development kit (SDK) for Blackberry 10 will be committed to open source.
Open source and open standards are the direction for UK government IT, the civil servant leading the government’s technology change agenda has said. Liam Maxwell, Cabinet Office director of ICT…
Microsoft Corp.’s vow to negotiate with competitors over industry-standard patents, instead of trying to block their products, marks a change from the company’s position less than a year ago. Microsoft’s…
Florian Mueller, an intellectual property analyst who tracks worldwide patent disputes in his Foss Patents blog, says a court in Germany seems inclined to side with Motorola in the company’s…
In September 2010 Microsoft stealthily reduced the number of licence keys as part of the Technet Standard and Technet Professional packages, down from 10 product keys to five for the…
A French laptop buyer has won a refund from Lenovo after a four-year legal battle over the cost of a Windows license he didn’t want. The judgment could open the…
The Spark, an open source tablet that will be available for purchase by May this year, is part of the Linux-based MeeGo project, which is hosted by the Linux Foundation,…
Germany’s cyber security agency today recommended that Windows 7 users run Google’s Chrome browser, citing the application’s sandbox and auto-update features.
Following up on its 2009 release of Bloomberg’s Open Symbology (BSYM), a system to identify securities across global asset classes, Bloomberg LP is opening its market data interfaces to anyone,…
Microsoft’s decision to align its volume licensing pricing with the euro could leave UK customers facing a “significant rise” in cost.
The OpenStack open source cloud project will push Microsoft’s Hyper-V out of its infrastructure as a service (IaaS) framework, blaming poor support from Microsoft. OpenStack Cloud-building software.
UK hybrid TV service BT Vision plans to be the first customer to discard Microsoft’s Mediaroom software, almost imminently, after at least a year-long effort to put in completely new…
In a classic story of greed, manipulation, and sweet retribution, a lawsuit between the state of Wisconsin and Microsoft found that Microsoft had overpriced its software and deceived consumers, and…
IBM’s putting its weight behind an Oracle-backed OpenOffice push rather than follow Google, Red Hat and others on an independent effort.
Redmond has a track record of working through intermediaries on open-source projects rather than getting directly involved and OpenStack on HyperV looks like a casualty of this policy.