Sunday | 12 October, 2008
Stories by: Dahna McConnachie
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SourceForge heads from one-stop shop to Mega-market 29/10/2007 09:27:34
SourceForge has forged a name for itself as the one-stop shop for downloading open source software. Now it looks like it is heading to mega market status, adding services to its suite, with the recent Beta launch of Source.Forge.net Marketplace. - +
Openbravo executives open up on the ERP solution 25/10/2007 08:21:10
Openbravo, an Open Source web-based ERP product, was project of the month on SourceForge in September. The project uses a Mozilla Public License 1.1 (MPL 1.1). It has 68 developers and over 200 contributors and has been downloaded over 350,000 times; with that number increasing by about 1,000 downloads per day. - +
Red Hat exec: Open Source is mature, disruptive and innovative 24/10/2007 08:54:53
Open source is disruptive, it develops rapidly, is adopted quickly, and it efficiently meets market needs while enabling new market capabilities. These were some of the statements made at an open source symposium held in Western Australia (WA) earlier this month. - +
ACCC launches public consultation on Telstra SAO exemption 20/10/2007 04:09:15
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission today launched a public consultation on Telstra's transmission capacity exemption application. - +
OK and FST use Linux-based phone to accelerate mobile device innovation 16/10/2007 08:38:23
Nine months after its official launch, Australian developers have already extended the capabilities of the world's first non-proprietary Linux powered mobile phone. - +
Drupal: from a drop in the ocean to a big fish in the CMS world 15/10/2007 09:59:33
Drupal started out as a college experiment. - +
Security professionals poke holes in Viagra Spammer murder 13/10/2007 08:04:44
If rumours are correct, there should be a dramatic decrease in Viagra and Penis Enlargement spam from today, with the so-called 'murder' of a Russian spammer called "Alexey Tolstokozhev." - +
Consultant: Microsoft responds to Open Source leadership 11/10/2007 07:49:46
By opening its .NET Framework libraries Microsoft is again responding to the leadership of the Open Source community, according to industry consultants and developers, but remaining on the back foot. - +
Luke Schierer discusses Pidgin, Open source and life 10/10/2007 07:04:03
With over 3 million estimated users, Pidgin is an open source instant messaging program for Windows, Linux, BSD, and other Unix platforms. It works with AIM, ICQ, Jabber/XMPP, MSN Messenger, Yahoo, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, QQ, Lotus Sametime, SILC, SIMPLE, MySpaceIM, and Zephyr. - +
Facebook launches library to ease PHP embedding blues 09/10/2007 08:31:45
Facebook engineers have made it easier for developers to embed PHP by developing a PHPEmbed library. - +
AMD's comeback: Randy Allen discusses 3-core, 4-core CPUs and virtualisation 09/10/2007 15:35:14
Randy Allen is AMD's corporate vice-president and general manager of the Server and Workstation Division. He talks to Australian PC World about Barcelona, the upcoming Phenom triple-core processors, the market for four core processors, and the effect that virtualisation has on CPU sales, and more.
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Computerworld Live Podcast #97: The Future of Enterprise Networking 25/07/2008 09:45:36
This week CW Live chats with Mark Thompson, global sales and marketing manager for HP ProCurve, on the future of the enterprise networking. Mark discusses the trends we can expect to see in the near future and how the right infrastructure can ensure your enterprise network is secure. - +
Computerworld Live Podcast #96: Security at the Edge 11/06/2008 09:22:22
CW Live speaks with Amol Mitra, HP ProCurve Director of Marketing for Asia Pacific and Japan. Today's topic: how enterprises are starting to shift away from simply controlling security via server logins, firewalls and moving to more adaptive security frameworks. - +
Data Management Edition #10: Multi-Petascale Systems 02/05/2008 09:12:33
This week we look at sustainability and the development of multicore technologies to build multi-petascale systems. - +
IT Security Edition #11: How to poison the Storm botnet 01/05/2008 08:51:55
This week CW Live presents a case study on how to poison the notorious Storm botnet . Plus we take a look at Cisco's plans for Ironport. - +
IT Security Edition #10: Cyber-battles fought and won 24/04/2008 11:09:47
Vendors bow to end user pressure to improve product security, and we take a look at the latest concepts shaping the cyber-battlefield of the future.
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