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Open-source IM provider Jabber goes mobile

Author: JT Smith

Jabber.com Inc., the Open Source instant-messaging provider, today announced that it is forming a three-way partnership with an open-source ASP and a wireless-application developer to develop a mobile version of Jabber for the Palm platform, from ZDNet’s eWeek.

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  • Open Source

Keep tech simple, stupid

Author: JT Smith

Upside Today article asks, “Why doesn’t somebody start a company with the philosophy that there is a huge audience for simplicity?”

Category:

  • Linux

Freedom browser for Linux due November

Author: JT Smith

ZDNet News is reporting, Internet technology firm Zero Knowledge confirmed Friday that its anonymous Internet browser Freedom should be available to Linux users next month.

Couldn’t call it unexpected

Author: JT Smith

LinuxPlanet states, “It has come to this. Having failed to successfully attack Linux on the basis of too many distributions and of not having enough applications, the FUDmeisters are now coming after Linux for not being easy enough to use.”

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  • Linux

Neoware CEO Michael Kantrowitz interviewed on CEOcast.com

Author: JT Smith

PRNewswire: Neoware Systems, a leading supplier of award-winning software and solutions for the emerging information appliance market, announced today that the Company’s chief executive officer, Michael Kantrowitz, can be heard in an online interview with CEOcast on the web at http://www.ceocast.com.

Motorola to invest $22.5 million in Lineo

Author: JT Smith

With the investment, All Linux Devices states, Motorola, Inc. has taken a broad step forward in its support for open source technology, open platform computing and the establishment of Linux as an embedded operating environment.

Intrinsyc gets Microsoft and Linux on speaking terms

Author: JT Smith

Canada Computes reports, on Sept. 21 Intrinsyc Software Inc. claimed a breakthrough, it seems this B.C. firm has discovered the secret of making “embedded” computers running Linux communicate with Windows enterprise boxes.

Red Hat launches Red Hat Network

Author: JT Smith

Business Wire via NewsAlert: Red Hat, a leader in developing, deploying and managing open
source Internet infrastructure solutions, today announced Red Hat Network, a powerful Internet-based service for deploying and managing open source platforms.

What the Hell is… CueCat?

Author: JT Smith

More than a million have been given away, states The Register, and at least nine million are soon to be en route to eager hobbyists scheming to turn it into an all-purpose, and free, bar-code scanner running on open-source software.

Category:

  • Linux

The building blocks for Linux

Author: JT Smith

LinuxPlanet talks with Shawn Gordon of theKompany.com.

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  • Linux