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November 1, 2021 | 14:00

Inscryption Review

Welcome challenger. Why not sit down, and play a little game?

October 27, 2021 | 12:05

SilentiumPC Regnum RG6V TG Case Review

Budget in price, mainstream in aspiration.

October 21, 2021 | 09:43

TV-B-Gone gadget goes open source

Mitch Altman, creator of the TV-B-Gone universal remote, has decided to ditch the patent and release his product under an open source licence.

November 5, 2008 | 12:39

Google patches Android security hole

Google and T-Mobile have jointly distributed the first patch for the Android mobile platform, as a result of a security flaw in the on-board browser software.

November 3, 2008 | 13:09

Google releases Android source code

Google has released the entire source code for its Android platform under an open source licence, ahead of the retail launch of the first Android product.

October 22, 2008 | 12:51

Pandora pre-orders go live

The Pandora, the open-source handheld gaming platform, has just become available for pre-order and is selling out fast.

October 2, 2008 | 10:46

Motorola working on Android products

Motorola has confirmed that it has a range of handsets based around Google's open-source Android platform in the pipeline, and may be boosting staff to accomodate.

October 2, 2008 | 08:52

Pandora handheld readies for pre-order

The Pandora handheld, an open-source handheld console geared towards homebrew software, will go on preorder soon.

September 23, 2008 | 12:59

Google launches Chrome browser

Google has taken the next logical step in its plans to conquer the Internet, with the beta launch of an open-source standards-compliant browser dubbed Chrome.

September 3, 2008 | 10:10

Ubuntu to include enterprise Java

Comments by Canonical staff at OSCON lead to the belief that future versions of the popular Ubuntu distribution will include a full Java Enterprise Edition framework out of the box.

July 23, 2008 | 12:59

Toolkit breaks FileVault and BitLocker

A team at Princeton University has released the source for a toolkit designed to perform a 'cold boot' attack on BitLocker and FileVault volumes - allowing access to encrypted files.

July 22, 2008 | 13:56

Netgear launches open source router

Netgear has taken the wraps off its 'open source' router, a wireless device which can officially run any of a number of Linux-based open source firmware packages.

June 30, 2008 | 09:15

Nokia makes Symbian open source

Finnish mobile giant Nokia has announced plans to purchase all remaining rights to the Symbian mobile platform in order to release it under an open source licence.

June 26, 2008 | 08:27

HP donates AdvFS code to Linux

HP has announced the donation of its Advanced File System to the open source community under the GNU General Public License, making it suitable for inclusion into Linux.

June 24, 2008 | 09:44

Cancer research goes open

Medical giant GlaxoSmithKline has donated a huge quantity of data to the National Cancer Institute, in the hope that researchers around the world can make use of it.

June 23, 2008 | 09:43

Mobile Linux at 23 percent by 2013

Mobile internet devices based on the open-source Linux operating system are expected to account for 23 percent of the market by 2013 according to analysts.

June 5, 2008 | 09:24

First open-source graphics card available

The Open Graphics Project has announced availability of the worlds first open-source graphics card, but don't think you can just buy it and plug it in - it's a development platform.

May 23, 2008 | 09:09

Microsoft worried over Linux ULPCs

Microsoft is moving to stop the growth of the Linux OS in the ULPC market with cut-price XP Home offered to manufacturers of devices like the Eee PC.

May 12, 2008 | 14:02

LegalTorrents relaunches

A BitTorrent tracker aimed at distributing freely-available files - mostly licensed via Creative Commons - has re-launched itself in beta format, but there's not a lot to see just yet.

April 2, 2008 | 08:55

Google funds Wine work

Search giant Google has slipped a bundle of used notes to the team behind the Wine package in order to get better support for Adobe Photoshop on Linux.

February 20, 2008 | 11:46

R.E.M. releases open-source videos

R.E.M. is encouraging fans to download open-source licensed versions of its music videos and to remix them for distribution via YouTube.

February 15, 2008 | 07:43

Mac support for TrueCrypt 5.0

The latest version of open-source encryption program TrueCrypt now supports MacOS X systems as well as Linux and Windows, and comes with some lovely performance improvements.

February 7, 2008 | 07:22

GPhone: Fact or Fiction?

The rumours say that Google is working on a new mobile phone but analysts say differently. Could a new mobile OS be coming from Google labs?

October 9, 2007 | 13:00

First GPL lawsuit filed

The SFLC has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Monsoon Multimedia for not giving access to the source code of the software to all customers.

September 21, 2007 | 12:34