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Black Duck Software & North Bridge Launch Ninth Annual Future of Open Source Survey
Black Duck Software...and North Bridge Partners...today announced the launch of the ninth annual Future of Open Source Survey. As an annual assessment of the state of the open source industry and analysis of future trends, the survey reflects the insights of open source software (OSS) industry leaders and collaborating organizations, and is open to participation from the technology community. Read More »
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Black Duck Software Announces Next Generation OSS Logistics Solution to Manage and Optimize Open Source
Black Duck Software, the leading OSS Logistics solutions provider enabling the adoption and management of open source software (OSS), today announced the release of Black Duck ® Suite 7 software that helps companies maximize the benefits of open source while managing the associated operational, legal, and security risks. Read More »
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Black Duck Software CEO Tim Yeaton Rejoins Red Hat To Lead Newly-Formed Infrastructure Group
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Tim Yeaton, former chief executive officer of Black Duck Software and a onetime Red Hat executive, has rejoined Red Hat in the newly-created position of senior vice president, Infrastructure Group. Read More »
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Black Duck Software Named To SD Times 100 For Sixth Consecutive Year
Black Duck Software, the leading global provider of strategy, products and services for automating the management, governance and secure use of open source software, today announced it has been named to the SD Times 100 for the sixth consecutive year. Read More »
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Black Duck Software On IPO Path, Though Possible Acquirers Abound
Burlington-based open-source software specialist Black Duck Software is "one or two years behind" recently public Rally Software, both in terms of revenue growth and IPO plans, Black Duck CEO Tim Yeaton said in an interview. Read More »
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Black Duck Unlocks $59B Opportunity For Enterprises Using Open Source
As enterprises increase their utilization of open source software (OSS) to accelerate development innovation and drive down costs, the importance of having up-front visibility into OSS licenses and their associated obligations takes on even greater importance. Read More »
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Black Duck's Dave Gruber And Peter Vescuso: Open Source Is Maturing
Mentioning open source to a typical consumer will no doubt result in puzzled looks or a reference to that "free stuff." Even in some business circles, the open source concept may only be synonymous with an alternative computer operating system known as Linux. Read More »
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Blockchain’s Weak Spots Pose a Hidden Danger to Users
Technologists, entrepreneurs, and some big companies are busy dreaming up new ways of using the core of Bitcoin—a distributed cryptographic ledger, or blockchain—to reinvent everything from business contracts and health records to carbon credits and new trading platforms (see “Why Bitcoin Could Be Much More Than a Currency”). However, one expert warns that they may be building their dreams on top of a precarious foundation. Emin Gün Sirer, an associate professor at Cornell University, has been researching ways in which Bitcoin and blockchains can fail...
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Blue Button For America
In August 2010, President Obama announced the Blue Button in a speech to the national convention of Disabled American Veterans. In his remarks, he said that “for the first time ever Veterans will be able to go to the VA website, click a simple Blue Button, and download or print your personal health records so you have that when you need them and can share that with your doctors outside of the VA.” Read More »
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Blue Button Plus, Other Identifiers Can Reverse 'Information Asymmetry'
Providing patients with access to their own information and reasserting the primacy of the physician-patient relationship can reverse the "information asymmetry" that favors big healthcare corporations at the expense of patients and individual physicians, according to a post at The Health Care Blog. Read More »
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Bossies 2012: The Best Of Open Source Software Awards
Welcome to the sixth annual Best of Open Source Software Awards, otherwise known as the Bossies. If you've enjoyed our previous Bossies, you're in for a treat... Read More »
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Broad Institute to Release Genome Analysis Toolkit 4 (GATK4) as Open Source Resource to Accelerate Research
The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard will release version 4 of the industry-leading Genome Analysis Toolkit under an open source software license. The software package, designated GATK4, contains new tools and rebuilt architecture. It is available currently as an alpha preview on the Broad Institute's GATK website, with a beta release expected in mid-June. Broad engineers announced the upgrade, as well as the decision to release the tool as an open source product, at Bio-IT World today...
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Brooklyn Students Successfully Deploy Open Source Wi-Fi Network
Every year I attend San Diego Comic Con and every year one of the biggest complaints among attendees is about connectivity. Particularly for those of us writing about the event, sitting in a room full of computer whizzes yet being unable to connect to the Wi-Fi to write an update is mind boggling. We may be getting some help from an unlikely place, an open source software project and a group of students in Brooklyn who are learning about mesh networking.
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Build Your Own Internet With Mobile Mesh Networking
Software can let smartphones, Wi-Fi routers, and other hardware link up without centralized Internet service. Read More »
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Build Your Own Open Source Artificial Pancreas System to Regulate Insulin Delivery
In her Day 2 OSCON keynote, Dana set out reminding us that Type I diabetes, suffered by millions of people around the world, is incredibly complicated to manage...The solution is an artificial pancreas, which acts to close that loop by monitoring and adjusting insulin levels, just as the normal pancreas does. But those devices are not yet available on the commercial market, and won't be for some years yet. Enter the OpenAPS project (Open Artificial Pancreas System); find it here on GitHub. "OpenAPS is a simplified Artificial Pancreas System (APS) designed to automatically adjust an insulin pump's basal insulin delivery to keep blood glucose (BG) in a safe range overnight and between meals"..
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