TechWeb - InformationWeek - Apple's 3G iPhone could become a strong competitor against the BlackBerry and weaken Google's initiative to build an open source operating system for smartphones. -- read full article
InfoWorld - Microsoft wants developers using the company's Team Foundation Server ALM (application lifecycle management) server to share process templates via a new project on the company's CodePlex site for open-source projects. -- read full article
Reuters - Business software maker Red Hat Inc
said on Wednesday that it has settled two of three
pending patent lawsuits that the company has been fighting.
AP - The EU's top antitrust official called Tuesday on member governments to use open-source software, an apparent jab at Microsoft Corp.'s proprietary technology. -- read full article
PC World - SourceForge.net's annual Community Choice awards highlight the most promising open source projects-- and the most troubled. -- read full article
Investor's Business Daily - The efforts of Google and others to push open-source software in cellular networks are nothing new and won't have a big impact, say executives with Microsoft and Nokia, the largest providers of smart phone software. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Ahead of his talk at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference, Sony's Ned Lerner explains the advantages of having his teams use wikis and other open source enterprise collaboration applications to get the job done. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Ed Boyajian, 45, former Red Hat VP and general manager of North American sales, will become president and CEO of EnterpriseDB next week. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The dental benefits provider chose Pentaho's open source BI after comparing it with SAP Business Objects. -- read full article
PC Magazine - The second release candidate of Firefox 3 is now available for public download, according to the browser's maker, the Mozilla Development team. -- read full article
TechWeb - Before you get all bent out of shape, it's worth pointing out that the GPhone and Android (Google's Linux-based smartphone operating system) are two entirely separate things. Was anyone waiting for the actual GPhone, anyway? -- read full article
NewsFactor - Social-networking site Facebook is opening up part of its platform. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based company said Monday that it will make what it described as "a significant part" of its platform open source. -- read full article
