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Yahoo will allow other Web sites to use its technology to build their own search services in a new revenue-sharing scheme announced on Thursday.
Yahoo said it would release the beta version of an API (application programming interface) on Thursday that Web sites can use to build services based on its search infrastructure and algorithms, including [...]

The company behind the Opera Web browser has released a free online curriculum to encourage student and professional Web developers to create standards-based Web sites.
In an announcement yesterday, Opera Software ASA said it launched the effort to help set the pace of Web standards education and training in secondary schools, colleges, universities and businesses.
Under [...]

Symbian’s decision to make its source code freely available tips the scales in favor of open-source software in smartphones and could make it harder for Microsoft, and even other open-source platforms like Google’s Android and Linux, to compete.
On Tuesday, companies including Nokia, Motorola, NTT DoCoMo, LG Electronics, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, AT&T, Texas Instruments, STMicroelectronics and [...]

In their recent quarterly earnings reaport, Redhat announced that their revenue was up for the first quarter of the year to $156 Million, which is up 33% on year on year results. Redhat are making strong gains in the middleware sector, with JBoss leading their revenue increase along with associated sales of operating system support.
JBoss [...]

AppleInsider is reporting today that a recent survey from investment bank RBC Capital Markets shows that over 50% of consumers looking to purchase a smartphone in the next 90 days are likely to purchase the new 3G iPhone which is scheduled for release on the 11th of July.
Symbian currently enjoys 65% of smartphone market share [...]

After 18 months of widespread consultation with community and corporate interests, the third versions of the GNU General Public License (GPL) and GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) were released one year ago on 29 June 2007. In November, they were joined by the GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL). Looking back at these licenses [...]

The popular social networking site Facebook just announced a Chinese version, but similar Chinese-based Web sites such as Xiaonei and Hainei have been struggling there. However, since April, UCenter Home, an open source social network service based on PHP and MySQL, is pushing open social networking in China.

Like other successful follow-the-leader Web sites in China [...]

Abstract
The open-source software movement is gaining increasing momentum in China. Of the limited numbers of open-source software in China, Red Flag Linux stands out most strikingly, commanding 30 percent share of the Chinese software market. Unlike the spontaneity of open-source movement in North America, open-source software development in China, such as Red Flag Linux, is [...]

We spend $1 trillion on software every year, writing off around twenty percent in failed applications. Not only is open source software free, but many are now claiming it works better too. Exec finds out more
Written by Sam Wright
 
There’s been a war of attrition going on for a few years now. On one side, there’s [...]

With competition reaching a fever pitch in the mobile Linux space, two foundations that have been working for several years toward platform and standards development have decided to put their heads — and their resources — together.
Two associations representing complementary interests have agreed to merge their resources to develop a stronger ecosystem around Linux  mobile [...]

“Now that Gates has ‘retired’ from Microsoft, ZDNet is speculating that Microsoft will become much more Open Source friendly. From the article, ‘We already see quite a different approach to dealing with OSS and OSS companies from Sam Ramji’s group [which is] doing a great job in establishing dialog,’ said Rafael Laguna, CEO of Open-Xchange [...]

The developers of the Linux kernel are trying to push against hardware manufacturers that don’t want an open source code driver associated with their products.
About 98% of the makers of portable disk drives, graphics adapter cards, mobile wireless cards, and other hardware devices supply an open source code driver for the Linux kernel. But there [...]

On Monday, Netgear announced the WGR614L, what might be the world’s first native open-source consumer router.
What this means isn’t exactly clear; Netgear representatives couldn’t be reached for additional comment by press time. The 802.11g router is available now within the U.S. at select retailers for $69.
However, projects like Tomato have offered unauthorized means of [...]