Tag Archives : Open Source

Google today released a ‘patent pledge’ which promises that Google won’t sue developers that uses their patents. The Open Patent Non-Assertion (OPN) Pledge  will initially see 10 MapReduce patents receive protection. MapReduce is a computing model for processing large data sets developed at Google, whose open-source versions  are now widely used. At Google we believe that open systems [...]

Google Wave Last year at Google I/O, Google has launched Google Wave, a web app for real time communication and collaboration, it set a high bar for what was possible in a web browser (character-by-character live typing, and the ability to drag-and-drop files from the desktop). Google said yesterday that they “don’t plan to continue developing Wave as a standalone product,” though the code [...]

After Apple has rejuvenated and breathed life into the Tablet PCs with its iPad device and Google soon following it with announcement of  Android OS and Chrome OS for tablets. Could the champion of Open-source OS Ubuntu be far behind?. Tablet PCs  running Ubuntu could be on the store  shelves by the early next year. According to Chris Kenyon, Canonical’s vice president of OEM,  the [...]

Chrome OS prototype Google Inc’s Chrome OS, the highly awaited upcoming open source operating system designed by Google to work exclusively with web applications including Google TV will be launching officially in the last quarter of this year. Google’s VP of product management, Sundar Pichai, made this announcement at the COMPUTEX technology forums event . Chrome OS, announced by Google  [...]

Image via Wikipedia Yesterday, Orange and Intel announced their strategic partnership to develop Orange multimedia services for Intel’s MeeGo platform. MeeGo is a joint venture between Nokia and Intel where both companies decided to develop a new hybrid mobile platform based on Nokia’s Maemo platform and Intel’s Mobilin platform. The announcement from Orange gives a great boost to the future [...]