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While the Googlers want to talk today about improvements to GMail for mobile, there remains a serious concern for you to discuss this weekend.
Is Google really good at being part of an open source community?
There are three types of mobile source projects:
1. One-company projects. 2. Multiple-company projects. [...]

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Cloudera is the quintessential Silicon Valley story.
Three of the top engineers from Google, Yahoo and Facebook have teamed up with an ex-Oracle executive to tackle the problems inherent in quickly analyzing big piles of data. On Monday, they’re revealing a commercial product based on the open source software Hadoop, which provides the analytical [...]

Bloomberg has been rooting around the historical quotes of Christine Varney, Barack Obama’s nominee to head the Justice Department’s antitrust division, and found a doozy from eight months ago calling Google a “monopoly in Internet online advertising” that could spell trouble for the US economy.
What’s more she said that Google’s gathering market power in cloud [...]

Much of the reader feedback to “Why Windows Must Go Open Source” is saying, “No way.” But part of my hypothesis is the fact that Microsoft as a developer culture is much less averse to such a move than Microsoft as a business culture. Consider the Windows Template Library, code that’s now part of Google’s [...]

Open source developers embrace in mass Google’s Cloud-based offerings, while steering clear of what Microsoft has to offer. The face-off between Microsoft and Google has put the two companies in the position of making inroads into each other’s traditional territory. While Google is moving onto the desktop with offerings such as the Chrome browser, Microsoft [...]

If you Google “AJAX Web 2.0″ you’ll get over eight million hits, but what technologies will you find in that mix that can truly deliver on the promises of Web 2.0 today? While there’s no single definition of Web 2.0, at its heart lays the Internet acting as a platform for social networks, where information [...]

Google revealed Wednesday that it will be discontinuing its development of the Jaiku microblogging service and opening the source code. The service will remain in operation on Google App Engine and it will be maintained by a community of volunteer Google developers with the assistance of the broader open source software community. The move is [...]

To some people R is just the 18th letter of the alphabet. To others, it’s the rating on racy movies, a measure of an attic’s insulation or what pirates in movies say.
R is also the name of a popular programming language used by a growing number of data analysts inside corporations and academia. It is [...]

The advent of Linux-powered netbooks, the launch of Google’s Android and Chrome, and Nokia’s move to snap up Symbian pushed open source further into the mainstream, despite ongoing legal wrangling.
The year 2008 showed open source — both in the form of Linux specifically and as a software development model generally — coming into the mainstream [...]

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 [...]