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SMS to Map – Using FrontlineSMS and Ushahidi to Tell Your Story
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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Social Media's Role In The Evolution Of FrontlineSMS
It's Social Media Week this week, and in recognition of this and our seventh anniversary next month, we'd like to reflect on the role that social media has played in the history and development of FrontlineSMS. Read More »
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Software Forethought
Here's an all too common scenario. A bunch of really smart scientists and medical researchers get together. They envision a research program of unprecedented scale. They obtain funding, tens to hundreds of millions of dollars, from academic, commercial, non-profit enterprises, and from investors and philanthropists. The plans are drawn up, brick and mortar is under design and soon to be built! Read More »
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Software Licensing: This Man Thinks It's Time Someone Stood Up For The End User
Software licensing is often impenetrable and costly for the CIO who makes a mistake. Mark Flynn leads a new body that aims to redress the balance and fight the corner for end-user companies...
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Software Patents And The Return Of Functional Claiming
Commentators have observed for years that patents do less good and cause more harm in the software industry than in other industries such as pharmaceuticals. They have pointed to a variety of problems and offered a variety of solutions...Most software patents today are written in functional terms. If courts would faithfully apply the 1952 Act, limiting those claims to the actual algorithms the patentees disclosed and their equivalents, they could prevent overclaiming by software patentees and solve much of the patent thicket problem that besets software innovation. Read More »
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Some Lessons From a Major Outage
But what when the network goes down – across the country and possibly internationally?With remote hosting of business-critical systems becoming more widespread it’s worth looking at some of the implications of a major outage. Read More »
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Sonatype Launches Insight Application Health Check
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 »
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Sourcemap Crowdsources Data About the Food You Eat
“Knowing where your food comes from” is arguably today’s biggest food trend. But to Sourcemap CEO Leonardo Bonanni PhD, traceability is far more than a fad. He and his team have created a crowdsourced directory of product supply chains and environmental footprints, making possible public information on everything from laptop computers to orange juice. Read More »
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SPIE Medical Imaging Conference: Live Demonstrations Workshop
Kitware is proud to continue its support of the SPIE Medical Imaging Live Demonstrations Workshop for 2012. The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum for systems and algorithms developers to show off their creations. Read More »
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Standardized Open Source Products Are The Key To Unlocking The Lock-In Trap
Mårten Mickos, CEO of Eucalyptus Systems, argues that when companies lock in to their own design and customizations, it’s as harmful as when they lock in to a vendor. Mickos explains why he thinks using standardized open source products is the best way to avoid both types of lock-in...
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State of New Hampshire Votes for Open Source
The legislative arm of the US state of New Hampshire has passed an act that requires the state's agencies to consider open source software for all new software acquisitions. The act itself spells out the benefits of open source over proprietary software in very clear and cogent terms, covering costs, long term data accessibility, interoperability and the use of open standards.
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Success Factors for Open Source Adoption
Long ago, we stopped questioning if open source should be adapted into mission-critical systems, and rather talked about how best to use it. Read More »
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Super-Communities Debuting for Open Source Vertical Supply Chains
The emergence of super-communities — such as Polarsys, OpenMama and Genivi — will continue to evolve in 2012. These vertically-oriented super-communities, the Olliance Group point out, serve the needs of all players in open source supply chains.
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Surfing As a Business Model
...In the open-source world, part of the broader peer production movement, analogous situations occur. As we all know communities collaborate to create some form of "gift", which in our case is a useful piece of software. These systems are created for a variety of reasons including commercial (make money, develop a reputation), altruistic (benefit society, foster open science, help fellow developers), practical (scalable software process, ease of collaboration) and fun (community engagement, personal growth). Read More »
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Taking an Open (Source) Approach to HIT Challenges
There are three key areas of open-source innovation that can significantly benefit IT departments with strapped budgets and impending compliance mandates.
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