Neowin News Feed for: Foundation

The first episode of Apple TV+' Foundation will stream free on YouTube

Omer Dursun — Sat, 08 Jul 2023 19:30:01 +0000

Apple will stream the first episode of Foundation on YouTube. This decision appears to have been made to promote the second season of the series. It previously employed this tactic with the Silo. Read more...

Rust Foundation formed to manage namesake language

Paul Hill — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 18:46:01 +0000

The Rust Foundation has been established to act as the steward for the increasingly popular programming language Rust. Its backers include AWS, Huawei, Google, Microsoft and Mozilla. Read more...

Two million tiny Raspberry Pi computers have now been sold

Andy Weir — Mon, 18 Nov 2013 05:20:42 +0000

The Raspberry Pi Foundation has revealed that it has now sold over two million of its tiny, ultra-affordable computers, reaching this latest sales milestone several months earlier than expected. Read more...

Bill Gates will not run for president, or office. Ever.

Andrew Stevenson — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 11:37:24 +0000

While Bill Gates has said before that politics is a path he isn't looking to become active in, he has once again been quizzed on whether the Oval Office would be one he would like to work from. Read more...

Twitter joins Linux Foundation

Rob Schorman — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 22:21:58 +0000

Twitter relies heavily on open source software such as Linux to process 400 million tweets a day from 140 million users, so it's no wonder why the company has decided to promote Linux a bit more Read more...

Windows Server 2012 SKUs revealed

John Callaham — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 19:50:54 +0000

Microsoft has revealed it will sell four versions of its Windows Server 2012 operating system when it becomes available later this fall. However, it won't offer a version of Small Business Server. Read more...

The Linux Foundation launches their own branded Visa card

Sam Symons — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 09:52:11 +0000

The Linux Foundation seems to be quite adamant of getting their image out there, as of late; not too long ago, they sent out their own advertisement to show off their offerings to the public,... Read more...

Microsoft add cheaper server platform to range

Sam Alderwick — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 20:01:44 +0000

According to a press release, Microsoft has announced a version of Windows designed for small businesses, named Windows Server 2008 Foundation. The low-cost server option is based on Windows Server 2008, but with reduced functionality.... Read more...

OLPC Foundation hit by recession

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:26:42 +0000

The OLPC foundation(part of Media Lab of MIT earlier) introduced the "Give One, Get One" program during Christmas and New Year holiday period of 2007/2008 to promote the sale of the $100 OLPC computers. During... Read more...

Industry leaders join board of OpenID foundation

Simon Andrews — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 01:55:02 +0000

Several industry leaders in the tech industry, and in particular the online side of it, have officially joined the OpenID foundation as corporate board members, including Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, IBM, and VeriSign. This large step... Read more...

The Open Document Foundation (ODF) is dead

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 17:50:37 +0000

The OpenDocument Foundation — a group whose name and charter would lead one to believe that it was backing the OpenDocument Format (ODF), but which ended up backing a different document format instead — has... Read more...

Linux Foundation calls for 'respect for Microsoft'

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 13:33:16 +0000

Linux needs to recognise Microsoft's leadership in some areas to better itself, Jim Zemlin, executive director for the Linux Foundation told delegates at the Linuxworld tradeshow in San Fransisco. As Linux has become a mainstream... Read more...

Linux Foundation Prepares For Microsoft's Legal Action

Tue, 15 May 2007 03:32:45 +0000

Executive Director of the Linux Foundation, Jim Zemlin, has chosen his words carefully when asked what the thinks of Microsoft declaring that 235 of its patents are violated in some form of open source code.... Read more...

Executive Interview: Jim Zemlin, Linux Foundation director

Sun, 28 Jan 2007 18:40:30 +0000

Linux Devices has a quick Q&A with Jim Zemlin, the executive director of the Linux Foundation, formed January 21 after the merging of Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) and Free Standard Group (FSG). Here are... Read more...

Microsoft Windows Workflow Foundation Beta 1.2

Thu, 10 Nov 2005 09:16:47 +0000

Windows Workflow Foundation is the programming model, engine and tools for quickly building workflow-enabled applications on Windows. It consists of a Microsoft® WinFX® name space (System.Workflow), an in-process workflow engine, and designers for Microsoft Visual... Read more...

Red Hat Creates Fedora Foundation

Fri, 03 Jun 2005 15:08:35 +0000

Red Hat Inc. has decided to hand over control of the open-source Fedora Project, creating the new Fedora Foundation to manage the project. Mark Webbink, the deputy general counsel at Red Hat, of Raleigh, N.C.,... Read more...

Gates Foundation pledges $250 million toward world health

Mon, 16 May 2005 19:34:24 +0000

The race to solve the world's most pressing health problems through science and technology received a $250 million pledge yesterday from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The latest amount brings to $450 million the... Read more...

Mozilla Foundation Now IRS 501(c)(3) Approved

Mon, 12 Jul 2004 16:59:23 +0000

For those of you who haven't already donated to Mozilla foundation. Here is yet another reason to donate. Apparently donations made directly to Mozilla.org are now tax deductible! Big thanks goes out... Read more...

Neowin Interview : Ben Goodger from the Mozilla Foundation

Thu, 27 May 2004 16:20:58 +0000

Over the last couple of months, Neowin has tracked the development of perhaps one of the most promising open source projects for a long time : Mozilla Firefox, or Firefox. We previously talked to Ben... Read more...

Longhorn To Get NUI Foundation Platform

Tom Warren — Mon, 29 Sep 2003 18:08:00 +0000

Microsoft is working to add 'rich user interaction' to its next-generation Windows client While Microsoft isn't expected to talk about Longhorn at this week's SpeechTEK show in New York, the Redmond software... Read more...

Mozilla Foundation Created

Tue, 15 Jul 2003 17:35:45 +0000

Thanks to mozillazine for the headsup. mozilla.org has just announced that they have created a new non-profit organization, the Mozilla Foundation, to continue the management of the Mozilla source. The new... Read more...

Electronic Frontier Foundation pushes for ban on regional DVDs

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 18 Dec 2002 09:36:28 +0000

GINGER GROUP the Electronic Frontier Foundation, said today it is pushing the US Library of Congress, North America's copyright "watchdog" to accept that people be allowed to skip "commercials" on DVD and also watch DVDs... Read more...

Packard Foundation opposes HP-Compaq

Sat, 08 Dec 2001 10:48:08 +0000

UPDATE: In a blow that could derail Hewlett-Packard's proposed $25 billion takeover of Compaq Computer, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation reached a preliminary decision Friday to oppose the deal. "The board... Read more...