Posts Tagged Open Source

Google Wave

Google Wave is an online (and open source) tool for real-time communication and collaboration.
A wave can be both a conversation and a document where people can discuss and work together using richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.
On an interview with the BBC technology site the developer behind Wave described it as “a communication [...]

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PHP-GTK is still live

PHP-GTK is an extension for the PHP programming language that implements language bindings for GTK+. It provides an object-oriented interface to GTK+ classes and functions and greatly simplifies writing client-side cross-platform GUI applications. PHP-GTK is one of those great [...]

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Google to launch OS in 2010

Google has announced it will launch an Operating System in 2010, the Google Chrome OS.  On its official blog Google said that it will target primarily Netbooks and that the OS will be Open Source. They also stated…
” Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS. We’re designing the OS to [...]

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OpenSuse Factory

On June 18th 2009 The OpenSuse Project announced that its development factory has been made more accessible to package contributors.  Joe Brockmeier’s post at opensuseNews states…
 ”we’re making it easier for contributors to take responsibility for packages and to contribute directly to openSUSE. This means contributors will be able to be directly responsible for packages, without [...]

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SwitchVox IP PBX

Switchvox is Digium’s family of Voice Over IP Phone systems for small and medium businesses. Switchvox systems are designed to be easy to use, full of helpful features and cost less than a traditional PBX. It’s based on the world’s leading open source PBX, telephony engine, and telephony applications toolkit Asterisk.

Technorati Tags: Asterisk, Difium, IP [...]

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Mozilla FENNEC – the Firefox gone mobile

Bringing Firefox’s features, security, performance and ease-of-use to mobile phones.  Fennec is yet in it’s Beta 1 version, it has been built on the same technology as the world famous Mozilla Firefox and has many of the same features.

Tabbed browsing
One-click bookmarking
Super easy navigation
Add-on ons (Firefox style)
touch-enabled interfaced optimized for the small screen

The interface is [...]

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Google Android OS on Notebooks

A developer team on venturebeat.com has reported that they can get Google’s Android to run on netbooks. Long before Andoid was released there were rumors about its use not being restric to mobiles. The Venturabeast team claim to have made it work on a EeePC 1000h within 4 hours as reported by the Linux Magazine [...]

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Linux a success and a failure

Interesting how contrasting the world of Linux can be. As an OpenSource (Free) and reliable operating system it should appeal to anyone, specially those in the developing world, one would naively think. Don’t get me wrong, Linux has a great success rate in Latin America, in Brazil alone it has become a real contender to [...]

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