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Building A business On OpenStreetMap Data? OpenCage Data Wants To Make That Easier

David Meyer | GigaOM | July 24, 2013

With location becoming a key part of many new apps and services, the use of free OpenStreetMap data seems like a no-brainer. But, as OpenCage Data company Lokku learned, there’s a lot of complexity involved. Read More »

Bulgaria Got a Law Requiring Open Source

Bozhidar Bozhanov | The Policy | July 4, 2016

Less than two years after my presentation titled “Open source for the government”, and almost exactly one year after I became advisor to the deputy prime minister of Bulgaria, with the efforts of my colleagues and the deputy prime minister, the amendments to the Electronic Governance Act were voted in parliament and are now in effect. The amendments require all software written for the government to be open-source and to be developed as such in a public repository...

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Busted For Dodging Linux License, Samsung Makes Nice With Free Code

Robert McMillan | Wired | August 20, 2013

Samsung has released software that could help a brand new class of storage devices work with Linux-based smartphones and computers. Read More »

Buy EHR vs Build EHR

John Lynn | Hospital EMR & EHR | October 14, 2013

I’ve long had an interest in the topic of when hospitals chose to buy their EHR software versus build their EHR software. In fact, we’ve written multiple times on the subject including Anne Zieger’s piece on “Some Hospitals Still Choosing To Build Own EMR“. Read More »

Can Any Tablet OS Challenge Android And iOS?

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols | ZDNet | July 19, 2013

Windows RT flopped but, seriously, is there any tablet OS that take on Android and iOS? Read More »

Canonical Embeds Ubuntu Linux Into Devices to Secure IoT

Sean Michael Kerner | eWeek | January 20, 2015

The new effort will extend Ubuntu's Snappy Linux technology to help enable the Internet of things...

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Canonical Offers 'Chuck Norris Grade' OpenStack Private Cloud Service

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols | ZD Net | May 13, 2014

Canonical, best known as the company behind Ubuntu Linux, is entering the private cloud hosting business with an OpenStack-based option for your data center or hosting provider.

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Canonical Will Win Even If Ubuntu Edge Doesn't Make Its $32 Million

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols | ZDNet | August 11, 2013

Canonical , Ubuntu's parent company, made a bet. It wagered that there were enough visionaries out there to crowd-source 32-million dollars for the first Linux-powered combination smartphone/PC, the Ubuntu Edge. It seems that the company will lose that wager, but in the long-run, I think Canonical will rise from the gadget gaming table a winner. Read More »

Canonical's Cloud-In-A-Box: Under The Hood

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols | ZDNet | June 20, 2014

Canonical's Ubuntu Linux-powered Orange Box, with its 10 servers in a single container, is the perfect cloud sampler...

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CEO George Grey Opens Linaro Connect Europe 2013 (LCE13) In Dublin, Ireland

Press Release | WebWire | July 8, 2013

Industry leaders are gathering in Dublin, Ireland this week to define the future of Linux on ARM at Linaro Connect Read More »

China Dumping Foreign Tech; It Could Work

Larry Seltzer | ZDNet | December 22, 2014

The Chinese government has been working for a long time on replacing foreign, largely American, technology with home-grown alternatives, but conditions are much better for them than in the past...

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China Unicom Hedges OS Bets With Ubuntu Support

Caroline Gabriel | Rethink Wireless | July 9, 2013

Chinese operators' support vital for new platforms as huge country looks for alternative to Android Read More »

Chromebooks: A Bright Spot In The Dark PC Market

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols | ZDNet | July 11, 2013

Yes, the PC market is going to hell in a hand-basket -- except for the sub-$300 market where the Linux-based Chromebook is leading the way to growth. Read More »

Cigna Named 2013 Red Hat Innovator of the Year

Press Release | Cigna, Red Hat, Inc. | July 15, 2013

Cigna recognized for successful Infrastructure-as-a-Service transformation project built with Red Hat solutions Read More »

Citrix Takes XenServer Open Source

Sean Michael Kerner | ServerWatch | June 25, 2013

The world of fully open-sourced virtualized infrastructure is getting a new entrant today. Citrix is making the latest XenServer 6.2 release available under the GNU GPL v2 open source license. Read More »