News & Features
In the trial at the Court of Appeals, the dispute about whether it is SCO or Novell who owns the copyrights to Unix is taking a new turn
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Google have released RE2, a regular expression library for C++ that provides a fast, safe, thread-friendly alternative way to use regular expressions
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Open Source For America says that the IIPA's "Special 301" call against governments that support the use of open source is irresponsible and misleading in its portrayal of open source
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The new version of the MVC framework alternative to WebForms is compatible with its predecessor and works with Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Web Developer 2008 Express. ASP.NET MVC 2 will also include the next generation of Microsoft's development environment
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With the candidates reduced from ten to four, the voting on an updated logo for the Eclipse Foundation has entered round two
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The Khronos Group has announced that OpenGL 4.0, the specification for the open 2D and 3D graphics API, is now available
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Apple has released Safari 4.0.5, an update which addresses sixteen vulnerabilities in the browser, along with a number of stability and performance improvements
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From version 4.1, Chrome will delete the ID token immediately after it is run for the first time – a symbolic step which takes the wind out of critics' sails
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The Qt developers have announced a technical preview for Qt 4.7, the cross platform C++ framework for GUI applications, and introduced declarative UI design with QML, part of Qt Quick
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By warning of acute danger to the domain name system, ICANN boss Rod Beckstrom has incurred the displeasure of domain operators. They are concerned that governments could get the wrong end of the stick
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Symantec has announced that it plans to shut down part of its SecurityFocus security information portal. The company says that only the Mailing Lists, including Bugtraq, and its Vulnerability Database will remain online
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Google has announced a test runner for Sputnik, the JavaScript conformance test suite that it launched last June. The test runner makes it easier to run the complete Sputnik test suite from within a browser
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Google has announced that the deadline for mentoring organisations to apply to take part in this year's Google Summer of Code (GSoC) event is the 12th of March. Each year Google seeks mentors from the FLOSS community to take part in it's annual GSoC, an event that takes place over the period of three months
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SpringSource, an open source Java framework specialist, has announced the introduction of tc Server Spring Edition, part of tc Server 2.0
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Liferay, makers of the portal software, are moving from licensing their code under the MIT(X11) licence and switching to the LGPL
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The Open Source Initiative has elected Simon Phipps, who recently left Oracle after serving as Sun's Chief Open Source Officer, to the board of directors
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A public exploit for the new hole in Internet Explorer 6 and 7 has become available. This will probably force Microsoft to release an out-of-cycle patch
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The Mozilla developers have released the first beta for what will become version 3.1 of their popular open source email and news client, Thunderbird, code named "Lanikai"
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SugarCRM boosts the channel partner programme for the open source CRM with rewards for qualified referrals
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Digg has announced that it is moving away from MySQL to the "NoSQL" open source Cassandra distributed data store
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Buffalo Technology has announced that it will be using DD-WRT, the free open source firmware, in several of its upcoming consumer and small business wireless routers, including the WZR-HP-G300NH, WHR-HP-G300N and WHR-HP-GN
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Apache Software Foundation's board chairman joins the board of the Microsoft created Foundation which aims to promote understanding between commercial software vendors and open source communities
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The Mozilla Foundation, the organisation behind the popular Firefox web browser, has announced the launch of a new public process to update the 10 year old Mozilla Public License (MPL)
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The Fixstars Corporation, which specialises in software for the Cell processors, has announced the release of Yellow Dog Enterprise Linux (YDEL) 6.2 for CUDA, the first enterprise Linux OS optimised for GPU computing
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Vodafone Spain sold a HTC Magic Android smartphone which had the Mariposa bot installed on its memory card
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Safari 4.0.5 patches 16 holes
