The world of open source software offers free alternatives to just about any expensive commercial package you might care to name, but there's no denying that some of them are better than others.Firefox, LibreOffice, and GIMP are a few of the better-known examples with a reputation for quality and stability, but there are plenty of other worthy contenders out there as well.Aiming to recognize some of the best of the open source breed, InfoWorld... full story ![]()
For a long time Apple maintained that apps were a way of selling iPhones, and then iPads, rather than a significant profit source in their own right. Last quarter it began breaking out Apps and iTunes (along with software services) into a separate revenue line - and no wonder! The global Apps market is going stratospheric.
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It's been only a few weeks since the Linux Foundation released its report that enterprise use of Linux continues to rise, but on Wednesday fresh data came out that suggests the same is true of open source software in general. Specifically, Black Duck Software and North Bridge Venture Partners today announced the results of the seventh annual Future of Open Source Survey,...
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Award-winning pastry chief Chris Hanmer opens his downtown Sioux Falls location at 5 p.m. Friday. The winner of the realtiy show Top Chef is bringing his European-style pastry creations to CH Patisserie at 309 S. Phillips Ave.
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Filed under: Investing Tribal Nova Partners with Barnes & Noble to Launch Award-Winning "i Learn With" App Series on Critically Acclaimed NOOK® Tablets, Including NOOK® HD and NOOK® HD+ NOOK® Is First and Only Android Platform to Feature This Early Childhood Learning Series Exclusively from March 11 - April 11 MONTREAL--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Tribal Nova, the developers...
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Here’s a counter-intuitive idea -- an open source project for banking which turns the bank into a platform. Isn’t that just about the opposite of what banks want to do?
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LOS ANGELES - "Once," the intimate, Tony Award-winning Broadway musical that is based on the Oscar-winning movie of the same name, won a Grammy Award on Sunday.
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Editor's Note: Below is Kaitlyn Boy's award-winning essay. See our full article on Kaitlyn Boy in today's edition of the Great Falls Tribune.
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Open source commercial space company DIYROCKETS and 3D-modeling software company Sunglass have announced today that they've partnered in a competition for people to design 3-D printable rocket engines. The competition, which takes off today at SxSW, is for budding rocket scientists to design open source rocket engines capable to cheaply delivering small payloads into low...
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Filed under: Investing Red Hat Advances Its OpenStack Enterprise and Community Technologies and Roadmap Red Hat OpenStack Early Adopter Program and Establishment of Open Source RDO Community to Help Customers Realize the Benefit of Community-Powered Innovation RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Red Hat, Inc. (NYS: RHT) , the world's leading provider of open source...
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Open source technology, as the name suggests, is an open-to-all concept which allows the contribution and involvement of various knowledgeable resources from different domains of industry either associated with the organization or freelancers. All...
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