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The regional government of Sardinia, an Italian island usually thought of as socially and economically backward, has approved a bill designed to promote the use of open-source software throughout the region, a regional government official said Monday.
The bill was given a green light by the center-left regional government just over a week ago, and the [...]

What does it take for an established “closed” vendor to shift midcourse and adopt an open-source model? Well in the case of Nokia and its pending acquisition of smart phone operating system maker Symbian, the cost may be $300 million a year.
That’s how much Symbian earned in royalties last year from sales of its Symbian [...]

Whether you’re talking about the Wii Latest News about Wii, the Xbox 360 Latest News about Xbox 360 or the PlayStation 3 Latest News about PlayStation 3, the video game industry is on a record-setting pace for revenue in 2008. Consumers have scooped up billions of dollars worth of game consoles, accessories and big-budget titles. [...]

Nokia has announced its Symbian mobile operating system will join the likes of Android and will become an open source operating system. The announcement was made Tuesday at the Smartphone Show in London and is seen as a bid to maintain and possibly grow its developer base. This move comes at the same time Google [...]

When Google announced Android, its wide-ranging cellphone project, last November, it promised a mobile platform more open than any other in the wireless industry.
On Tuesday, the Mountain View, Calif.-based Internet giant aims to make good on that pledge by releasing the Android platform source code for free via a new Web site. The release comes [...]

Open source software is often an unsung hero in the online gaming universe. Game engines are complex applications with core functionalities provided by numerous modules. These include a rendering engine for 2-D or 3-D graphics and a physics engine or collision detection and response calculator. In addition, game developers have to provide for sound, scripting, [...]

Red Hat president and CEO Jim Whitehurst expects the enterprise open source software business to emerge from the economic crisis stronger than the proprietary market.
In August Red Hat posted second quarter revenue 29 percent higher than the same quarter a year ago, while its subscription revenue also enjoyed double-digit growth to beat analysts’ estimates. Whitehurst [...]

Gamepark’s open-source handhelds, including the GP2X, have gone through several revisions, all offering a fairly robust package at reasonable prices for savvy tech-heads not interested in picking up a Nintendo DS or a Sony PSP. But the devices make some sacrifices for the sake of portability, and that’s something that OpenPandora is hoping to take [...]