http://www.congoo.com/feed/newschannelsfeed.aspx?chid=8&catid=339News Feed for - Open-sourcehttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96450019&Channel_ID=8&Category_ID=3392009-11-26T01:51:00We use Thunderbird to access Gmail through IMAP. The application just alerted us that an update was available. It turned out that it the stable edition of Thunderbird 3.0 has been released. Mozilla Messaging EChannelnews.comhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96440348&Channel_ID=8&Category_ID=3392009-11-26T02:36:00After months of silence, Emblaze has decided to show off their upcoming First Else phone . The First Else is running on a custom operating system powered by the Access Linux Platform 3.0. The user interface Maximum PChttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96505513&Channel_ID=8&Category_ID=3392009-11-25T23:03:00When an open-source project is working optimally, can proprietary-software companies hope to compete? Greg Kroah-Hartman, a prominent Linux kernel developer and Novell fellow, suggests that the answer CNET News.comhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96496892&Channel_ID=8&Category_ID=3392009-11-25T20:21:00The most prominent feature of Firefox 3.6 is Personas, which let you reskin the browser with thousands of different looks. But my single favorite change is a subtler change to the open-source browser's CNET News.comhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96500473&Channel_ID=8&Category_ID=3392009-11-25T20:54:00See that little login window on the top right of this Web page? Mozilla, through Firefox, wants to do away with it--for all the best reasons. Mozilla's plan will simplify how you log into sites because, Fast Companyhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96484245&Channel_ID=8&Category_ID=3392009-11-25T16:25:00In the last article I talked about Unicode, character sets and encoding -- how accented and special characters are transferred in email and web pages, and why you sometimes see funny characters when the LinuxPlanethttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96473708&Channel_ID=8&Category_ID=3392009-11-25T15:04:00Not many years ago a fight in the browser world between Microsoft and Mozilla would have been a foregone conclusion, with Internet Explorer lagging far behind Firefox in terms of performance, usability IT Pro UKhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96440904&Channel_ID=8&Category_ID=3392009-11-25T03:10:00Mozilla Firefox is a good browser to start with, but third-party extensions make it great. That's especially apparent when it comes to web browser security, as shown by the following add-ons. 1: NoScript Builder AUhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96430936&Channel_ID=8&Category_ID=3392009-11-25T01:15:00When Monash University's long-term chief information officer Alan McMeekin retires next month, he will be handing over a half-completed, prolonged staff email migration from Mozilla Thunderbird to Lotus ZDNet Australiahttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96394869&Channel_ID=8&Category_ID=3392009-11-25T01:03:00Last week, Microsoft showed off some browser technology that could help Internet Explorer leapfrog the competition. But if Mozilla succeeds in its hope, Microsoft could be playing catch-up instead. The Builder AUhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96504751&Channel_ID=8&Category_ID=3392009-11-25T23:41:00At Microsoftâ??s Professional Developers Conference the Redmond giant showed off an early build of Internet Explorer 9 complete with GPU acceleration. Not to be outclassed, Mozilla has indicated they Maximum PChttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96414068&Channel_ID=8&Category_ID=3392009-11-24T18:48:00Customer Downloads Leap by >100x, Significant New Project Wins, High Revenue Growth, and Additional US Government Endorsements of Open Source Software BOSTON--(Business Wire)-- PrismTech, a world leader Reutershttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96288505&Channel_ID=8&Category_ID=3392009-11-24T15:55:00It is frustrating whenever personal medical questions become political questions. This happens all the time. Example A, ripped from the headlines, is the kerfluffle over mammograms. Women, doctors and ZDNethttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96399827&Channel_ID=8&Category_ID=3392009-11-24T14:51:00BusinessWire - Wind River and Kontron today announced a global, multi-year agreement under which Kontron will distribute Wind River's industry leading VxWorks and Wind River Linux operating systems. This Forbes.comhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96509245&Channel_ID=8&Category_ID=3392009-11-25T23:36:00Live Webinar: Applying Business Analytics. Click to learn more. Infobright, the open source data warehousing company, and Talend, the recognized market leader in open source data integration, today announced BusinessIntelligence.comhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96504971&Channel_ID=8&Category_ID=3392009-11-25T22:57:00MILWAUKEE, WI â?? Rockwell Automation announced that it is supporting the release of a free, open-source EtherNet/IP software stack for I/O adapter devices developed by the Vienna University of Technology. Design World Onlinehttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96378080&Channel_ID=8&Category_ID=3392009-11-24T08:16:00A brand new opportunity has arisen for a Mobile Linux Architect to join a leading mobile device manufacturer and to lead the design and development of Mobile Linux focused mobile handsets. A salary of ZDNet UKhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96393261&Channel_ID=8&Category_ID=3392009-11-25T21:14:00With Googleâ??s Chrome system now somewhat publicly available (through the source code of the latest development stage), itâ??s continuing to make headlines. Hereâ??s our run-down of the latest news and TECH.BLORGE.comhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96365837&Channel_ID=8&Category_ID=3392009-11-25T19:46:00This holiday season, bring the joy of slaying Zombies to the palm of your hand Activision Publishing, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI) and developer Treyarch, announced today the availability of the Apple iPhone Cariboo Computer Magazinehttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96485877&Channel_ID=8&Category_ID=3392009-11-25T16:38:00By Nicole Lewis SHARETHIS.addEntry(}, } ); Virtualisation is unarguably one of the biggest trends of the past few years, and open source software has been on the IT radar for a while now. So does that Computerworld UKhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96485752&Channel_ID=8&Category_ID=3392009-11-25T16:36:00If you ever wondered how the Linux kernel is put together, here's an excellent description (complete with historical context) from Greg Kroah-Hartman, who knows it from the inside: It used to be that Computerworld UKhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96481035&Channel_ID=8&Category_ID=3392009-11-25T16:03:00Related to Ed Tech When science teacher Jeff Weitz needs reinforcements in his Advanced Placement Physics class, he turns to Walter Lewin, the legendary physics professor at the Massachusetts Institute Converge Onlinehttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96478113&Channel_ID=8&Category_ID=3392009-11-25T15:42:00The web is shaping up more and more as an extension of our identity. Social networks, wikis, even the search engines, know a lot more about ourselves than we realize and everything is becoming more catered Softpediahttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96477253&Channel_ID=8&Category_ID=3392009-11-25T15:33:00A team of researchers has implemented support for ââ?¬Ë?trusted computingââ?¬â?¢ in a commercially available version of the open source operating system Linux, breaking new ground in the global drive Scientific Computinghttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96405115&Channel_ID=8&Category_ID=3392009-11-25T13:13:00Demoed in Japan a month ago , the new linux platform Else Intuition is officially launched yesterday in London. Its website  ww.else-mobile.com is also opened for business to give you an idea of what IXPLORA