The Packard Foundation, which holds a 10.4 per cent stake in Hewlett Packard, has confirmed it is to vote against the company's planned merger with Compaq. The group claims it is in HP's best interests for the merger to fail.
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has appointed a new executive director. Peter Brown will take up the position. Outgoing executive director Bradley Kuhn has left to take up the role of CTO at the Software Freedom Law Centre, in order to take up a...
Billionaire investor Warren Buffett plans to distribute more than $30bn of his stock to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Buffett, 75, plans to commit 10 million class B shares of his company, Berkshire Hathaway, to the Gates Foundation.
Deeper insight WMI is Microsoft's implementation of the common information model published by industry consortium Desktop Management Task Force, and is the gateway for management tools to find out about a PC's status and potentially change it.
and News Corp's MySpace.com have announced they have formed the OpenSocial Foundation, a not-for-profit group to support the OpenSocial initiative that Google kick-started last year to promote a universal standard for developer applications on...
The Symbian Foundation has announced a slew of new members, including the mobile operator 3. The Foundation is a Nokia-led consortium that was recently established to grow and open-source Symbian over the next two years, while incorporating Symbian...
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