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Samsung announces DRVLINE autonomous car platform

Paul Hill — Tue, 09 Jan 2018 17:16:02 +0000

Samsung has announced its DRVLINE autonomous car platform which aims to give car makers an open and modular platform to build into their cars. Samsung hopes this will future-proof cars in future. Read more...

Mozilla gives $275k to support creative tech projects

Paul Hill — Wed, 01 Nov 2017 17:16:01 +0000

Mozilla has announced the release of $275,000 in funding to 18 entities working on creative projects taking advantage of a fast internet connection. This is part of its 'healthy internet' initiative. Read more...

Huawei exec: Windows Phone isn't open enough and costs too much

Andy Weir — Wed, 26 Mar 2014 16:23:54 +0000

Asked about Huawei's Windows Phone plans, an executive responded instead by listing the company's issues with the platform, including OS licensing costs, limited customization and "the ecosystem". Read more...

ZTE Open to release tomorrow, as first Firefox OS device for the public

Paul Ferson — Mon, 01 Jul 2013 13:34:09 +0000

According to a tweet from Spanish company Telefónica, the ZTE Open is destined for market tomorrow. Coming in at a low price of €69, the phone will be the first to run Mozilla's operating system. Read more...

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 06:43:28 +0000

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 21:43:30 +0000

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...

Mozilla collecting all web tools together in one directory

Sam Symons — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:46:51 +0000

If you're a web developer, you'll hopefully be aware that there are many helpful (and free) tools designed to progress your quest for an epic website; the only problem with this, though, is that you... Read more...

Ex-Microsoft employee: Free software will kill the company

Sam Symons — Tue, 26 May 2009 22:22:50 +0000

CIO has posted an article about a man named Keith Curtis, a previous programmer for Microsoft, who has come out with the dramatic statement that free software will be the downfall of the Redmond company.... Read more...

Microsoft's My Phone service now in open beta

Sam Symons — Tue, 19 May 2009 09:50:01 +0000

You may remember a while back, Microsoft announces a new web-syncing service named My Phone, aimed at, you guessed it, cellphones. We at Neowin have given our first impressions on it, but at that time... Read more...

An open letter to Microsoft on Windows 8

Kevin Weiner — Wed, 06 May 2009 01:04:18 +0000

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

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

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'

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

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:37:02 +0000

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?

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:09:08 +0000

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 09:57:35 +0000

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

Novell Whitepapers encourage Open Source over Microsoft

Steven Parker — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 11:34:41 +0000

Novell has released a bunch of whitepapers in support of Open Source technologies over Microsoft products, hardly a surprise really but at least Novell outlines in it's documents why such a move would benefit you... 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...

Microsoft To Open Visual Studio Source Code To Top Partners

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 10:28:18 +0000

Microsoft kicked off a series of technical conferences this week by pledging to release Visual Studio 2008 by the end of November, making the developer IDE the first of three major Windows platform updates scheduled... Read more...

BT home router wide open to hijackers

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 09:24:09 +0000

If you rely on BT for high-speed internet or VoIP, there's a good chance a pair of UK-based researchers know how to enable a backdoor in your router that leaves you wide open to eavesdropping,... Read more...

IE7 Open Last Tab Add-on

Steven Parker — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 09:04:16 +0000

If you've ever accidentally closed a tab in Internet Explorer 7 when you didn't mean to, then you will know how handy this IE7 add-in can be. With the IE7 "Open Last Closed Tab" add-in,... Read more...

Eudora E-mail Program Reborn as Open Source

Fri, 07 Sep 2007 21:47:48 +0000

After Qualcomm Inc. stopped selling Eudora, a pioneering e-mail program named after author Eudora Welty, in May of this year, it did not simply lay the program to rest in the collective digital graveyard of... Read more...

ATI Driver Flaw Leaves Vista Kernel Open To Attacks

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 13:52:08 +0000

An unpatched flaw in drivers from ATI creates a security hole to sneak malware past the improved security features in Windows Vista and straight to the Vista Kernel. Microsoft says that they are working with... Read more...

U.S. Standards Committee Still Undecided on Open XML

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 12:26:49 +0000

A key U.S. standards committee remains undecided about whether it will support a document standard proposed by Microsoft Corp., even while the company asserted that the committee has already signalled its "yes" in an upcoming... Read more...

Linspire backs Microsoft's Open XML

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 13:25:17 +0000

Former arch rivals Linspire and Microsoft have continued their recent rapprochement with a collaboration to improve interoperability between OpenOffice.org's Open Document Format (ODF) and Microsoft's Open XML. Linspire said that it is joining Novell and... Read more...

BBC's use of Windows DRM attacked by open source advocates

Sun, 24 Jun 2007 23:56:01 +0000

The BBC's upcoming iPlayer service is being targeted by the UK's Open Source Consortium. The iPlayer in question is a BBC service that will allow viewers to watch any show that they have missed for... Read more...

TweakVista open beta begins

Wed, 20 Jun 2007 22:11:00 +0000

Popular tweaking site TweakVista.com and Stardock have teamed up to create a new utility for Windows Vista users called TweakVista. TweakVista allows users to change many low level settings in Windows Vista as well as... Read more...

Scientists Open Door to Laptop That Literally Screams

Mon, 04 Jun 2007 21:11:17 +0000

Scientists at the University of Utah have developed a way to convert the wasted heat in electronic devices into sound and then electricity, promising cooler, greener, and perhaps louder, computers and other machines. Orest Symko,... Read more...

Open Source Pulls in $1.8 Billion in 2006

Mon, 04 Jun 2007 20:19:14 +0000

According to a new IDC study, the growth in adoption of stand-alone open source software reached $1.8 billion in 2006 and will grow 26% annually for the next four years, hitting a total market worth... Read more...