Topic: Open Source Software

Lockheed Martin's Social Networking Platform's Not Rocket Science

Lockheed Martin, the giant defense contractor, is wary of letting its staff use social networking. It's probably something to do with secrecy. But it also knows its staff are people, so it's built its own social net, and is now releasing it open-source.READ»

IBM's Open-Source Approach to Disaster Management

Director, Corporate Responsibility, IBM Latin America São Paulo, Brazil Patricia Menezes, 52, oversaw IBM's recent relief efforts in Chile, using open-source software to find missing persons and helping start communities on ...READ»

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Google Chrome 5 Beta: Fastest Chrome Yet Brings Native Flash Support

Chrome is snatching Web browser marketshare left and right, and the newly released beta version should keep users migrating from Internet Explorer and Firefox. It's the fastest version yet in a browser already known for speed.READ»

WordPress: A Brand to be Managed

Yesterday I flew from Phoenix to San Francisco and back in a day to attend WordcampSF 2010, my fourth pilgrimage to the shrine of a piece of software.This conference is a cross between a training session and a user community ...READ»

WordPress As a Brand to be Managed

Yesterday I flew from Phoenix to San Francisco and back in a day to attend WordcampSF 2010, my fourth pilgrimage to the shrine of a piece of software.This conference is a cross between a training session and a user community ...READ»

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Former Sun Microsystems CEO: HTC Isn't the First Company to Face Legal Threats From Steve Jobs

Jonathan Schwartz, former CEO of Sun Microsystems, has stepped up to defend Google (in a roundabout way, via HTC) from the patent attacks recently leveled by Apple. If you want to be truly disturbed at how virulent the patent ...READ»

Microsoft and Amazon Sign Deal Granting Access to Each Other's Patent Porfolios

Microsoft and Amazon have inked a cross-license agreement in which both companies have access to the other's patent portfolio. The terms of the deal are frustratingly vague, although we do know that despite the symbiotic way the ...READ»

Web Application Development makes sure what clients are looking for

Website application development takes place across a wide range of technology platforms to guarantee implementation of client’s business strategies and enhancement of operational excellence. Website application development team must ...READ»

Can Nokia and Intel Conquer the Embedded Devices World With MeeGo OS?

Intel and Nokia have announced what seems to be an extremely odd partnership: They're melding Intel's Moblin mobile device OS with Nokia's Maemo into a new Linux affair called MeeGo. Odd? Yes. But it might just work. The companies' ...READ»

Open Source Marketing to the Max - Maximizing Blue Ocean Long Tails and Bull's-eyes

Long Tail SegmentationA complementary segmentation that is more demand driven and related to (BO 3) above is long tail segmentation which is extensively written about in "The Long Tail by Chris Anderson". The classic example used is ...READ»

Top 5 Predictions in 2010

How can advertisers more effectively target key audiences? How can non-profits grow in a time when penny-pinching donors are closing their wallets? These are a few of the many challenges we faced in 2009. In our 2010...READ»

Redefining Market Segmentation – Maximizing Blue Oceans and Long Tails

 Red Ocean SegmentationAs has previously discussed traditional segmentation looks at existing industries, with existing industry boundaries, competitors, channels and rules. Given this there are two common schools of thought that ...READ»

Bi-curious? Going Mac for the Holidays

My elusive quest for an operating system ended with AppleREAD»

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Boxee Gathers iTunes, Hulu, Last.fm and More in New Set-Top

With the availability of devices like Tivo, DVR, and online video streaming platforms, we have access to nearly every show on television, whenever we want it. Our growing media consumption – whether it’s through TV, YouTube, iTunes, or streaming video – is no doubt growing each year, and expanding beyond the television set itself to ever more popular on-demand streaming platforms. Online video streaming will get even…READ»

Open Sourcing the Playbook for Blue Ocean Marketing

The open source community shares its code and ideas and this blog is designed to open source a playbook on blue ocean marketing and a deliver  “Blue Ocean Ten Point Plan”. I lead marketing for one of the largest ...READ»

Apple Reforms App Approval as Facebook Developer Vows "Never Again"

Just a day after being publicly excoriated by an influential developer, Apple has introduced new tweaks to its App Store approval process to make it more friendly to submissions. Joe Hewitt, developer of Facebook for iPhone and an ...READ»

More Details of Mozilla's Wave-like Raindrop Leak

Raindrop, Firefox creator Mozilla's version of Google Wave, has revealed a little more of her comely form. Images of the open-source messaging platform are there for everyone to see on Mozilla employee Andy Chung's Flickr page. As ...READ»

Not Just for POTUS: The Defense Department Wants Some Open Source Too

We noted yesterday the way the White House was embracing open source principles with its switch to Drupal for its Web site, and today there's news that a different quarter of government is keen to go open: The Defense ...READ»

Why Charging Just a Little Can Be Smarter Than Charging Nothing at All

The strategy of giving everything away often creates as many hassles as it solves. Why charging just a little can be smarter than charging nothing at all.READ»

IBM Introduces Linux-based Netbook Software Aimed at Developing World

The netbook sector is one of the hottest spaces in tech, so it’s no surprise that IBM has thrown its hat into the ring with its new Smart Work package. What is surprising is that the computer giant is angling for market share in ...READ»

Don't Wait for Steve; Build Your Own Apple TV

Yesterday we discussed the prospect of a new Apple TV. But why watch TV on Apple's schedule when you can build your own, and have twice as many features? If you're a Mac die-hard, follow MacWorld's DIY Mac Mini media center project. ...READ»

Summer Movies We're Afraid to See: Walt Disney's Air Linux

With Hollywood prepping big-budget versions of Monopoly, Bazooka Joe, and Stretch Armstrong, what's next? Here's another blockbuster that Rooftop Comedy came up with.READ»