The State of Flash
May 07, 2010Apple, Microsoft, Opera and now Scribd have all spoken out about Adobe's platform. What does this mean for open source?
more »Gov 2.0 to Highlight Collaboration, Transparency
May 05, 2010"Participation, Collaboration and Transformation" to be the expo's theme.
more »OLPC Computers for Palestinian Refugee Children
May 03, 2010The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has instituted a three-year program together with Sugar Labs and the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program.
more »FSFE Founder Georg Greve Awarded German Cross of Merit
Apr 28, 2010Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) founding president Georg Greve was awarded the German Cross of Merit for his intervention on the part of free software and open standards.
more »Blu-ray Compliance Comes to x264
Apr 27, 2010The x264 main developer from the VideoLAN open source project has announced that the x264 free H.264 encoder can now also create Blu-ray-quality video.
more »Google Summer of Code 2010 Projects Determined
Apr 27, 2010Google announces this year's Summer of Code winners.
more »XWiki 2.3 Offers New Features for Users and Developers
Apr 27, 2010Annotations, color selections, and improved customizations come to the XWiki CMS.
more »Guidelines for European Open Source Procurement Published
Apr 27, 2010The OSOR agency has published a study that should make it easier for public administrations in Europe to make decisions regarding open source software procurement.
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