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Google has announced they are releasing the source code of Google Sky Map to the public. Google Sky Map is an Android app which users the phone’s sensors to act as a window into the cosmos. Originally created by some Googlers during their famous 20% time, Sky Map allows users to point their Android device… |
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After months of uncertainty, HP has announced today that they are contributing WebOS to open source. However, HP is not abandoning the platform – they said that they will continue to actively develop the platform. HP plans to continue to be active in the development and support of webOS. By combining the innovative webOS platform… |
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Earlier today, Google has dropped a pleasant surprise when they released the source code of Android 4.0 “Ice Cream Sandwich” to the Android Open Source Project. After announcing Android 4.0 “Ice Cream Sandwich” about a month ago, Google promised that unlike its predecessor - Android 3 “Honeycomb” – it will be open sourced. Although, Google did not… |
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Google has released the source code of all the versions of the Android operating system, until Gingerbread (Android 2.3). However, they did not release the source code of Honeycomb (Android 3). Google had said that Honeycomb is the exception and that the versions of Android released after that will be open source again. After the… |
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Google has frequently flaunted the openness of its own Android platform. The openness of the platform is one of the main reasons it has attracted many geeks – the ability to modify and run your own software is something that other platforms like iOS and Windows Phone 7 cannot provide. Last year, the then Apple… |
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The GNU/LGPL is very popular among independent developers and companies which mainly deals with open source software. The Apache License, on the other hand, is favored by the big corporations for their open source projects. In this article, we take a look at the difference between this two licenses to find out why. |
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Steve Ballmer gave all hocus-pocus when he was asked if Microsoft would continue to support non-Microsoft platforms. And now he proves that Microsoft would play tough with the open source or non-Microsoft platforms as we expected. Digium, the company behind the popular open-source Asterisk private-branch exchange (PBX) program, has announced that Skype has unilaterally ended its… |
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Steve Chang, the Chairman of Trend Micro, has kicked up a controversy by claiming that open source software are inherently less secure. When talking about the security of smartphone, Chang claimed that the iPhone is more secure than Android because being an open-source platform, attackers know more about the underlying architecture. Android is open-source, which… |
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