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Google Chrome OS is “careless computing” warns GNU founder

Chris Davies, Dec 14th 2010 Discuss [7]

Google Chrome OS may liberate you from fire and awkward little children who dump ice cream on your notebook, but according to GNU founder Richard Stallman it also liberates you from too many of your legal rights. The outspoken Free Software Foundation founder believes that rather than "cloud computing", Chrome OS encourages "careless computing", and highlights the fact that the rules over what information police can or can't seize without a search warrant change depending on where your data is stored. Read The Full Story

Apache Wave reboots Google’s collaborative tool in open-source Incubator

Chris Davies, Dec 7th 2010 Discuss [0]

It really is turning into a Google week, what with the Nexus S, Android 2.3 Gingerbread, Google Maps for Mobile 5.0, a Honeycomb Motorola tablet and the promise of Chrome OS news today, but there's also confirmation that the Apache Wave project will indeed be going ahead. Submitted for potential open-source inclusion in late November, Google's ill-fated Wave has been accepted and there's work already underway to bring the new project - and Wave in a Box - up to speed. Read The Full Story

Google Wave open-source reprieve possible if Apache agree

Chris Davies, Nov 26th 2010 Discuss [0]

Google may have given Wave its marching orders, reassigned its team members and lost the chief architect behind the short lived group-working system, but that doesn't mean Wave is dead. A new Apache Incubator proposal would see an open-source version of the technology - hosted not by Google but by individual "Wave in a Box" (WIAB) projects - called Apache Wave live on. Read The Full Story

DARwIn-OP open-source DIY robot gets premature reveal

Chris Davies, Nov 26th 2010 Discuss [1]

A new version of the NSF-sponsored DARwIn-OP open-source robot has been spotted, the latest handiwork from Virginia Tech in collaboration with Purdue University, University of Pennsylvania, and Robotis Co. The images were discovered in among the DARwIn-OP support site photos by the RoboSavvy forum, though right now it's unclear exactly what changes have been made. Read The Full Story

Jolicloud Jolibook netbook hits UK on Friday tips WSJ

Chris Davies, Nov 17th 2010 Discuss [1]

Jolicloud's Jolibook netbook is set to go on sale this coming Friday in the UK, according to the WSJ's sources, ahead of broader availability soon after. Pricing for the netbook is yet to be confirmed, but is said to be "very competitively priced" and " under most rival netbooks yet delivering a pretty powerful package." Read The Full Story

MeeGo roadmap tips no CDMA or LTE support until Oct 2011

Chris Davies, Nov 16th 2010 Discuss [0]

If the current state of MeeGo 1.1 failed to impress you, perhaps something on the company's roadmap will stand out more. Unwired View's Staska is at the MeeGo Conference 2010, where they've just shown a slide detailing timescales for future builds of the open-source OS. MeeGo 1.2, for instance, is due in April 2011, while v1.2 is targeted for October with LTE and CDMA support. Read The Full Story

MeeGo 1.1 handset build gets new video demo

Chris Davies, Nov 16th 2010 Discuss [3]

The MeeGo team has already promised that there won't be any new devices running the open-source OS launched at the MeeGo Conference this week, but that hasn't stopped them showing off the latest build of the OS. Carrypad shot some footage of a Moorestown-based AAVA smartphone running MeeGo 1.1, and while it's still far from ready for the public, it's certainly come on well from when we last saw it. Video demo after the cut Read The Full Story

AMD join MeeGo project with Intel & Nokia: will use it with APUs

Chris Davies, Nov 15th 2010 Discuss [2]

AMD has thrown in with Intel and Nokia, announcing support for MeeGo this morning. According to the press release, AMD will "provide engineering resources" to MeeGo development, with a mind to using the open-source OS in its embedded device plans "and create expanded market opportunities for our forthcoming Accelerated Processing Units." Read The Full Story

Free MeeGo IdeaPad S10-3t for developers as Intel get open-source serious

Chris Davies, Nov 15th 2010 Discuss [4]

If you thought Intel weren't taking MeeGo seriously, think again. The MeeGo Conference 2010 has kicked off in Dublin this morning, and Intel has just told attendees that everyone is getting a free Lenovo IdeaPad S10-3t convertible touchscreen netbook running the open-source OS. Read The Full Story

Apple to provide OS X code for OpenJDK Java SE 7 project

Chris Davies, Nov 12th 2010 Discuss [0]

Apple has announced that, along with Oracle, it is kicking off the OpenJDK project for Mac OS X. As part of the partnership, Apple's software engineers "will contribute most of the key components, tools and technology" involved in a Java SE 7 implementation, including a 32-bit and 64-bit HotSpot-based Java virtual machine, class libraries, a networking stack and the foundation for a new graphical client, all released as open-source. Read The Full Story

Ubuntu 10.10 Desktop & Netbook Editions due Oct 10; Dell first to release hardware?

Chris Davies, Oct 8th 2010 Discuss [0]

Open-source addicts have been eagerly awaiting Ubuntu 10.10 Desktop Edition and Netbook Edition, and Canonical has confirmed they won't have long to wait for it; both versions will go up for download on October 10 2010. Meanwhile, DigiTimes's sources reckon Dell will be the first to out an Ubunto 10.10 based netbook. Read The Full Story