Posts tagged Open Source
OLPC XO-3 TABLET FOR $75
Dec 30th
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Remember that OLPC XO educational laptop which sparked the netbook revolution? It couldn’t be sold for the promised price of $100, but it proved that it is possible to build a usable mini-laptop at extremely low prices. Well, Nicholas Negroponte, the man behind the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, is pretty [...]
Mozilla to release Firefox mobile browser soon
Dec 28th
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Already there are key players, such as Opera, Safari and Windows Mobile, in the mobile browser domain. But Mozilla is planning to introduce something different via Fennec as compared to other mobile browsers. The key feature is that this open-source browser will synchronise easily with the desktop counterpart.
As per Mozilla vice president [...]
Video player Kaltura adds 2 new partners, new monetization tools
Nov 18th
Kaltura, a popular open-source video solutions company, is announcing two new partnerships this week: one with LongTail Video to bring that company’s popular open-source video player JW Player to Kaltura, and one with Artivision, a company creating video monetization tools. These partnerships have huge promise for open-source video, making it easier than ever to create, [...]
Google tries to speed up programming with a new language: Go
Nov 11th
A team of Googlers just announced a project called Go — it’s a new, experimental programming language that Google is making available as open source at the Go website.
The Go team says its big programming frustration has been the slowness of existing programming languages. Go changes that by compiling (i.e., turning programming code into an [...]
