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Firefox OS Simulator Adds Commerce Feature For App Developers

Jeremy Kirk | Computerworld | July 12, 2013

Firefox Simulator 4.0 lets developers test what kind of receipts are delivered Read More »

Five More Common Myths About Open Source

Simon Mitchell | Business 2 Community | July 2, 2013

We establish some Linux facts and debunk some popular Open Source myths. Read More »

Five Out Of Six Developers Now Using Or Deploying Open Source

Paula Rooney | ZDNet | December 7, 2012

Five out of six developers recently surveyed by Forrester Research say they have used or are using open source tools as part of their application development or deployment and the top five classes of software used are operating systems, web servers, databases, developer tools and configuration management tools Read More »

Five Things Desktop Linux Has To Do To Beat Windows 8

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols | ZDNet | September 7, 2012

Microsoft, as it did with Vista, is giving Linux another chance to make the gains in the PC market with Windows 8, but can Linux take advantage of this opportunity? Read More »

For The Love Of Open Mapping Data

Frederic Lardinois | Tech Crunch | August 9, 2014

It’s been exactly ten years since the launch of OpenStreetMap, the largest crowd-sourced mapping project on the Internet. The project was founded by Steve Coast when he was still a student...

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ForgeRock Joins Open Invention Network as Licensee

Press Release | ForgeRock, Open Invention Network | August 10, 2012

Open Invention Network (OIN) today extended the Linux ecosystem with the signing of ForgeRock as a licensee. Read More »

Forrester: $2.1 Trillion will go into IT Spending in 2013; Apps and the U.S. Lead the Charge

Ingrid Lunden | TechCrunch | July 15, 2013

Forrester Research has now released its annual look at the state of IT spend globally, and the analysts project that there will be $2.06 trillion invested across software, hardware, and IT services by enterprises and governments in 2013. [...] Read More »

Forza open-source: Italian military to adopt LibreOffice

Jon Gold | Network World | September 15, 2015

The Document Foundation’s Italian subsidiary, LibreItalia, said Wednesday that the Italian Ministry of Defense has agreed to adopt LibreOffice, the open-source productivity suite, in October, and that it will create its own online training courses for the new software by the end of 2016. The move was prompted, in part, by an Italian law that mandates the consideration of open-source alternatives to proprietary software for government use, which was originally passed in June 2012. LibreItalia and the military’s IT staff will release the educational material to the public at large under the Creative Commons license.

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Foxconn Backs Firefox OS Play

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols | ZDNet | June 3, 2013

Can the open-source, Linux-based Firefox mobile operating system become a mobile-space player? The question is far from answered but Mozilla has a new supporter: major electronics contract manufacturer Foxconn. Read More »

Foxconn Constructs HTML5 Smart Cross-Platform Integrating Support For Eight Screens, Internet And Cloud

Staff Writer | DigiTimes | February 21, 2014

The prospects of smart applications, which are needed to serve the purposes of cloud-based networks of sensing devices, IoT (Internet of Things) and terminal devices, have triggered strong interests in Big Data and inspired imaginations of next-generation cognitive computing and artificial intelligence. [...] Read More »

France Votes to Expand Open Source Use

Jon Gold | Network World | October 21, 2015

French voters voiced strong support for a proposal that will see the country’s government expand the role of free and open-source software in a national referendum on technology called the Digital Republic bill. More than 147,000 people voted on the Digital Republic bill’s 662 accepted proposals, and two open-source measures were the second- and third-biggest vote getters.

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German City Hopes To Wean Citizens Off Windows XP With Free Linux CDs

Joey-Elijah Sneddon | OMG! Ubuntu! | June 23, 2013

Thousands of free Linux CDs are to be distributed to citizens of a German city in spring of next year. Read More »

Global Enterprises Increase Linux Adoption in Critical Growth Areas Including Cloud Computing

Press Release | The Linux Foundation | March 26, 2013

Annual survey of world’s largest enterprise Linux users shows strong and consistent growth due to demand for supporting cloud initiatives, Greenfield deployments and mission-critical workloads Read More »

Google Propels Linux To The Top

Jack Wallen | TechRepublic | March 21, 2014

...What Google has done for Linux, over the past few years, no other company has managed to pull off. By releasing two major platforms, both getting the most out of a Linux kernel, Google has put Linux in more hands than Canonical, Red Hat, SuSE, and any other company to have attempted to bring to life the Linux platform.

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Google, Business, And Open-Source Patent Protection

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols | ZDNet | March 29, 2013

Google has just pledged that it won't sue other companies over open-source patents if they don't sue Google first, but this is actually a long established policy. Now if it could only stop the patent wars. Read More »