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Simon Crosby Explains Citrix's Open Source XenServer Move

Staffwriter | SearchServerVirtualization.com | October 1, 2009

Simon Crosby, Citrix Systems' chief technology officer and founder of XenSource, is our guest on this edition of This Week in Virtualization. Read More »

Simon Hartley

Simon Hartley is leading the US introduction of the altOS mobile security platform with a startup company, CIS Mobile (https://cismobile.com), working with early adopters in the Intelligence, Department of Defense (DoD), and Federal Civilian communities.  He previously worked with Apple and Samsung in hardening their platforms to meet the needs of the U.S. Government marketplace. He is an advisor and investor in a number of cybersecurity startups in the Washington, DC area.

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Simple Circuits – An Open Source Hardware Analog Arsenal

Staffwriter | Open Source Hardware Junkies | June 30, 2013

I wonder if this has happened to you. You see an awesome project online and you think “I am going to make that rad thing-a-ma-jig”.  It looks easy after all, and if that 5th grader and his dad did it, then darn it – so can I. Read More »

Skunkworks Opens Up IT For Debate

Lis Evenstad | eHealth Insider | November 7, 2012

Healthcare communities need to take responsibility for establishing the interoperability of IT systems, said one of the speakers during the Skunkworks debate at EHI Live 2012. Read More »

Slicer 4.0 Now Available

Stephen Aylward, Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin, and Julien Finet | Kitware Blog | December 8, 2011

Kitware is pleased to announce the availability of Slicer 4.0 binaries on the Slicer download page. Spearheaded at Kitware by Julien Finet and Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin, Slicer 4.0 is a major new release in the 3D Slicer series where improvements to performance, robustness, and usability have been key. Read More »

Small Banks Turn To Open Source Solutions To Cut Costs

Jayadevan PK & Jochelle Mendonca | The Economic Times | August 13, 2014

Co-operative banks and newly-licensed ones are increasingly adopting open source and cloudbased solutions as they look to bring down costs.  More than 1,000 banks will implement these core banking solutions by the end of the year...

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Small Massachusetts HIT Conference Returns to Big Issues in Health Care

Andy Oram | O'Reilly Radar | February 6, 2012

The big achievement in Massachusetts, going into the conference today, was a recent agreement between the state's major insurer, Blue Cross Blue Shield, and the 800-pound gorilla of the state's health care market, Partners HealthCare System. Read More »

SMART Apps In The EHR --- This Is Progress!

Sean Nolan | Family Health Guy | September 17, 2012

Last week I had the opportunity to visit my old hometown while attending the SMART conference at Harvard Medical School (and as a bonus I got to catch up with my dad at the super-yummy Publick House in Brighton). I always have high expectations of the Ken and Zac show, but this one was even more notable than most. Read More »

SmartThings Connects Physical Objects To The Internet, That Can Be Monitored Via Apps (video)

Julian Horsey | Geeky Gadgets | August 27, 2012

A new open source platform called SmartThings has started its journey on the Kickstarter website, and has been designed to help you created and connect physical objects to the Internet and smartphone applications. Read More »

SMS to Map – Using FrontlineSMS and Ushahidi to Tell Your Story

Patrick Munyi | iHub | February 11, 2012

Want to know more about using mobiles for social change, crowd sourced mapping, and how the two can combine? Keen to learn more about FrontlineSMS and Ushahidi, and how these software tools can be used together to enable positive social change?

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SOA in 2011: Enterprise IT Increasingly Open to Open Source Integration

Vance McCarthy | Integration Developer News | August 30, 2011

Most enterprises are actively using open source solutions across IT departments and managers say they are likely to use more, according to a survey by FuseSource Corp., a provider of Apache-based open source SOA, middleware and messaging solutions. Read More »

Social Medicine 2.0—Can You Use Crowdsourcing to Give Your Medical Device a Leg Up?

Nigel Syrotuck | MDDI | July 7, 2017

Online crowdsourcing communities are a game changer. These platforms allow anyone to appeal to the entire connected world for support or participation. They get many of us to participate—Kickstarter processed just shy of $500 million dollars in 2014. Most interesting, at least to me, are platforms for crowdsourcing information. These make up the next generation of online forums, ranging from chat forums to open source hardware development...

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Solving User Experience Problems with PatternFly

Michael Dyrynda is a web developer at Hostworks, a freelance developer, and a blogger. He's working on his first open source project in Confomo with Matt Stauffer and podcasting the journey on briefs.fm. He also writes about web development and solving day-to-day problems with no readily available solutions. Michael's web development skills extend to front-end aspects of web development, including JavaScript, LESS/Sass/CSS, designing databases, as well as building applications that can scale. I connected with Michael on Twitter in late April after he tweeted that moving to PatternFly for an in-dev app was an "instant improvement"...

Sonatype Launches Insight Application Health Check

Press Release | Sonatype | July 25, 2012

Sonatype, the leader in Component Lifecycle Management (CLM), today announced the launch of Insight Application Health Check, the first easy way to analyze the components that make up an application and the latest service in the Sonatype Insight product suite for ensuring the integrity of open-source components at every phase of the software lifecycle. Read More »

Sony Opens Up Sensor Framework for Developers

Staff Writer | IBTimes | August 23, 2012

Sony is set to make Dynamic Android Sensor HAL (DASH) available as an open source project for developers, according to Sony Mobile...The DASH is expected to provide source code files for custom ROM developers and to make files for the sensors in Xperia smartphones. Read More »