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• 19 July 2011

• News: Yahoo and open source

  Yahoo is a well-known user of, and contributor to, open source projects. The company is most closely associated with Hadoop, and rightly so, as it is this open source project's biggest contributor. Last month, it sponsored the Hadoop Summit 2011, in which its internal Hadoop experts, and others, ran a collection of workshops on the distributed workload operating system. It even announced that Yahoo had collected some top Hadoop engineers and spun off a new company, Hortonworks. Hortonworks hopes to sell Hadoop consulting services to enterprises.

• 05 July 2011

• News: Microsoft patent division taking cash from at least 5 Android vendors

  One of Microsoft's hottest new profit centers is a smartphone platform you've definitely heard of: Android.

• 28 June 2011

• News: Android, Red Hat Prove Linux's Merit on Phones and Servers

  Debate over Linux's viability on the desktop may rage unabated in light of the recent changes made to Canonical's Ubuntu, in particular, but there's no questioning the operating system's strength in the server and mobile arenas.

• 08 June 2011

• News: Say Goodbye to Google Search Portals for Linux, Mac and More

  Fans of Linux, Microsoft and Macs used to be able to search for information about those topics on Google using specialized search tools that narrowed the results to a focused set of highly relevant Web sites.

• 04 June 2011

• News: 30 Days With Ubuntu Linux, Day 3: Where's my iTunes?

  OK, so Ubuntu Linux is all installed and ready to go. Now what?

• 31 May 2011

• News: Google establishes Chrome OS center in Taipei

  Google has established a software engineering center in Taipei to work with Asian laptop makers on computers running its Chrome OS, a Google executive said Tuesday.

• 25 May 2011

• News: Next MeeGo TV platform may boost connected sets

  Due to a reporting error, the story, "Next MeeGo TV platform may boost connected sets," posted to wire on Tuesday, misstated the name of analyst firm Parks Associates.

• 24 May 2011

• News: MeeGo conference eyes uses beyond phones

  Supporters of the MeeGo open-source platform put tablets, in-car systems and TV in the spotlight at a conference in San Francisco on Monday, saying the technology had broad potential while downplaying its role in smartphones.

• 19 May 2011

• News: Linux Kernel Update Brings a New Wave of Hardware Support

  Updates to the Linux kernel are always exciting because of the advance look they provide at what's to come in upcoming Linux distributions, and Thursday's 2.6.39 release is no exception.

• 18 May 2011

• News: Attachmate has high hopes for Novell products

  Attachmate intends to revitalize the sales and technical development of the end-user computing products that it acquired when it purchased Novell, such as those for virtualization and enterprise collaboration.

• News: Attachmate has high hopes for Novell products

  Attachmate intends to revitalize the sales and technical development of the end-user computing products that it acquired when it purchased Novell, such as those for virtualization and enterprise collaboration.

• 03 May 2011

• News: Natty Narwhal: the First Linux for Newbies?

  Whenever a new version of an operating system is released, it's common to see a wave of reviews following on its heels, assessing how the software compares with what came before it and weighing its new pros and cons.

• 02 May 2011

• News: Coming Soon: A Faster Firefox for Linux Users

  Linux users' proverbial cup is already overflowing this spring thanks to several recent coups for the open source operating system. Just last week, however, more good news arrived for users of the free software in the form of an announcement from Mozilla that Firefox has been given a huge speed boost on Linux.

• 26 April 2011

• News: Google found guilty of patent infringement for using Linux

  A US jury has told Google that it owes Bedrock Computer Technologies $5m in damages for using versions of Linux that infringe on Bedrock's patents.

• 21 April 2011

• News: Ubuntu Server geared for future clouds

  The server edition of Ubuntu 11.04, "Natty Narwhal" gets an updated set of cloud support tools

• News: Meet Ubuntu 11.04 'Natty Narwhal'... Linux just got cool

  When Canonical releases the latest version of its Ubuntu Linux operating system on 28 April, it's ready to take on Windows. At least that's what Director of Communications Gerry Carr told PC Advisor in an exclusive interview to promote Ubuntu 11.04 'Natty Narwhal'.

• 20 April 2011

• News: Linux patent protection network gets boost from Facebook, HP

  Facebook, HP, Rackspace, Juniper, Fujitsu and dozens of other organizations have joined a group building a defensive patent portfolio to protect Linux-using members from potential lawsuits.

• 15 April 2011

• News: LinuxCon to feature Red Hat, WebOS, Ubuntu and more as Linux turns 20

  Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst, HP CTO Phil McKinney, Ubuntu technical architect Allison Randal and Marten Mickos of MySQL and Eucalyptus will keynote LinuxCon.

• 14 April 2011

• News: State Street modernizing with cloud, Linux technologies

  State Street Corporation says technology must evolve to meet the increasingly demanding needs of financial services.

• 11 April 2011

• News: CentOS 5.6: A Free Powerhouse for Web Servers

  Linux distribution releases have been coming fast and furious this spring, bringing fans of the free and open source operating system more choices and more capabilities than ever before.

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