The floods in Houston, Texas were scarcely reported over here, but there were some good BCP (Business Continuity Planning) lessons from them that should certainly be noted for future reference. Instead, Red Hat's eCos operating system will form the...
Certified phones are due in 2007, said Michel Gien, Lips committee member and executive at embedded-software maker Jaluna. John Ostrem, a Lips board member, founder of China Mobilesoft and now lead scientist at PalmSource, said: "There's a need for...
He also provided reassurance that, as one of Nokia's key drivers for the acquisition had been Trolltech's "talent", the manufacturer had "no plans to reduce [Trolltech's] workforce". The deal has been unanimously approved by Trolltech's board of...
And big traditional IT names such as IBM continue to ladle on the support in the form of cash and code donated to open source projects. And now the VCs are jumping on board. Is open source the next big boom à la dot-com?
Also on board are telecommunications companies NTT DoCoMo and Vodafone, the largest carriers in Asia and Europe, respectively. Greg Besio, vice president of mobile device software, said in an interview at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo: "We've...
When future generations look in their dictionaries for a definition of 'hubris', there'll simply be a reference to this cautionary episode. The Redmond reference was a cheeky dig at rival Microsoft. That name was wisely jettisoned as the device has...