Neowin News Feed for: Open

ZTE announces 'Open', the world's first Firefox OS device

Andy Weir — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 17:04:00 +0000

ZTE today announced the world's first Firefox OS handset, the 'Open', an entry-level device with a 3.5-inch HVGA display, 256MB of RAM and a 3.2MP cam, designed for first-time smartphone buyers. Read more...

Android is designed for piracy, developer says

Tyler Holman — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 07:43:28 +0100

After one Android developer decided to take their app free to play because of piracy, an iOS developer is blaming it on the 'corrosive mentality' of open platforms like Android. Read more...

Facebook makes data centre and server designs open source

Piers Hausjell — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 22:43:30 +0100

According to Gigaom, the worlds most popular social networking site -- Facebook -- has opened up its data centres and servers by releasing a tonne of previously unknown information. During a news event earlier on... Read more...

Microsoft opens up the Outlook PST data format

Tom Warren — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 07:37:21 +0000

Microsoft always planned to open up the Outlook PST data format in 2010 and last week it made good on its promises by releasing a technical structure specification document. Paul Lorimer, Group Manager of Microsoft Office... Read more...

MySQL founder calls for protests against Oracle takeover

Matthew Hopson — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:51:27 +0000

The founder of the popular MySQL database is calling for people to protest against Oracle's attempted takeover of Silicon Valley based Sun Microsystems. Michael Widenius says that the European Commission must block the deal in... Read more...

An open letter to Microsoft on Windows 8

Kevin Weiner — Wed, 06 May 2009 02:04:18 +0100

Dear Microsoft, Congratulations on recently releasing the Windows 7 release candidate. As I've mentioned before, it's shaping into an excellent product and I have given my reasons why I think people should upgrade. But let's... Read more...

Microsoft to open retail stores

Andrew Lyle — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 02:36:05 +0000

Microsoft has recently appointed David Porter Corporate Vice President of retail stores, who has 25 years experience with Wal-mart and 2 years with DreamWorks Animation in 2007. In a recent post on Neowin, a... Read more...

Yahoo puts meat on Open Strategy bones

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 06:35:28 +0000

After months of preamble, Yahoo on Monday flipped the on switch for a massive project to increase activity, and advertising on its Internet sites through social connections and online applications. The company has been... Read more...

Songbird (The Open Music Player) 1.0 Released

supernova_00 — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:55:19 +0000

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An open, customizable music player built on Mozilla with dozens of integrated services, hundreds of add-ons, and a growing developer community. Key Features: GStreamer - The main media playback system, across all platforms -... Read more...

Oak Ridge supercomputer fastest for open research

Matthew Hopson — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:03:31 +0000

The Cray XT supercomputer at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, is now the World's fastest unclassified supercomputer, boasting a peak performance of 1.64 petaflops and a sustained performance of 1.3 petaflops. The only computer... Read more...

Google's Android open source OS 'jailbroken'

CrimsonRedMk — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 07:30:23 +0000

Fans of Google's Android OS, now available on T-Mobile G1 phones, can finally feel more "at home" with the Open Source notion Google is taking. "Jailbreaking", a popular term popularized by Apple's iPhone, means "getting... Read more...

Open Source Advocates Hail Appeals Court Ruling

maplecookie — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:37:02 +0100

Free software advocates are praising a federal appeals ruling that allows greater protection for open-source software against copyright infringement. The case concerns a company, Kam Industries, that downloaded open-source code for use in a product... Read more...

Plurk readying itself for open APIs?

Imran Hussain — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:09:08 +0100

Inquisitor has reported that the nemesis to Twitter, Plurk is about to announce the release of an API. What's the big deal? Perhaps not, but the API would enable third party application development, taking Plurk... Read more...

Yahoo! Remains Open to Value Maximizing Transactions

Steven Parker — Mon, 19 May 2008 10:57:35 +0100

Yahoo! Inc. , a leading global Internet company, today issued the following statement in response to the announcement by Microsoft Corporation that it is continuing to review potential transactions with Yahoo!: "Yahoo! has confirmed with... Read more...

Could Pandora open up Linux games?

Foub — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 05:25:22 +0000

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A stealth-mode startup is readying a Linux-based handheld gaming device with WiFi, USB, and a 4.3-inch 800x480 touchscreen. The "Pandora," headquartered at OpenPandora.org for now, runs Linux on a next-generation ARM SoC with integrated OpenGL... Read more...

Microsoft: Vista More Secure Than XP and Open Source

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 13:51:37 +0000

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Windows Vista was hit by significantly fewer publicly disclosed security flaws in its first year than Windows XP and open source rivals in their first years, according to a report from Microsoft. The report, written... Read more...

Mac Users More Open Minded And Sure Of Themselves - Study

EL1TE — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 11:30:17 +0000

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New York (NY) - Open minded people are more likely to purchase a Mac, according to a new survey released by Mindset Media. The company interviewed 7500 people and found that liberal thinkers were 60... Read more...

The Witcher Modding Forum Open

EL1TE — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:21:25 +0000

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CD Projekt has the new modding board for The Witcher up on the official The Witcher web site. With the Djinni Toolset around the corner, I'm sure modders are already outlining their ideas for his... Read more...

SimCity Source Code Is Now Open

EL1TE — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 14:02:20 +0000

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Tolkien writes "Source code for SimCity has been released under the GPLv3. For legal reasons the open source version was renamed Micropolis, which was apparently the original working title. The OLPC will also be getting... Read more...

Verizon Wireless to Open Network

Sagittarius — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:03:36 +0000

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Verizon Wireless is surprisingly embracing open networks. The nation's second largest cell phone carrier said today that customers will have the option of connecting hardware and software not sold by the company to its network.... Read more...