Tag archive: Open

In an attempt to tamp-down fears that Google was closing the open doors of Android to the development community, Google's vice president of engineering Andy Rubin took to the Android Developers blog with a single message: Android will remain an open platform. Rubin's assurances that Android will remain the open-source mobile platform it's been since the beginning follow a Bloomberg Businessweek report from last week that… Read More

Open ID is meant to eliminate the headaches of remembering different passwords and user names for different services and websites. At its heart, if you have an Open ID identifier, you simply sign into that, and it can be used to log into all member sites and services. The service has now received a major boost as both Microsoft and Google have released plans to sign in their users to Open ID, joining Yahoo and AOL, the BBC reports.… Read More

You could say that the new version of the open-source productivity suite, Open Office 3.0, is a hit. Released at 10 am British time yesterday, the demand was so great that it very quickly crashed the servers, according to ZDNet. OpenOffice.org's marketing lead, John McCreesh, noted that while most downloads are from mirror sites, "the fact that our central site can't even run the bouncer [to divert requests to those local… Read More

When Psystar offered a Mac clone, it found itself on the receiving end of a lawsuit from Apple. Now another company is planning to offer machines that emulate Macs, but with a difference – if you wants to fun OS X you have to buy and install the software yourself, ZDNet reports. However, as that involves hardware running specialized firmware called the Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI), it’s not easy. In a statement… Read More

MySpace has given a boost to the open-source Open ID by supporting it, in a move that began yesterday. Open ID is open source technology that allows users to eliminate the need for different user names and passwords for different sites. In fact, this has been quite a big week for MySpace, according to Information Week. The social network has added Flixster and Eventful to its Data Availability initiative, meaning MySpace members can share… Read More

Although the news may not mean much to North American consumers, IBM is apparently re-introducing itself to the personal computer business after selling off its ThinkPad and ThinkCentre lines to China's Lenovo. According to Reuters, the company is partnering with Red Hat, Austrian software distributor VDEL, and Poland's LX Polska, so offer Microsoft-free PCs to the easten European and Russian business markets. The… Read More