Articles on Open Source

Setting up an online mall with open source - Sep 1, 2009

Blogs Open source is such a hit now that everyone is using it to build all kind of Web sites. But finding the right open source that can help you create a ... Read story »

Palm developer program coming in December - Oct 7, 2009

Crave Palm said Tuesday that its webOS developer program will be open in December with "an unparalleled level of transparency" in a not-so-subtle dig at Apple. The company, which is playing catch-up ... Read story »

SixthSense technology brings wearable gesture interface closer to reality - Nov 23, 2009

Crave We first heard about SixthSense in a Technology, Entertainment and Design (TED) presentation by Dr Pattie Mae earlier in February. At TEDIndia this month, MIT grad student Pranav Mistry demoed in ... Read story »

Panasonic and NEC announce new open source LiMo phones - Aug 12, 2009

Crave Panasonic and NEC announced nine new cell phones on Tuesday that use the open-source, Linux-based mobile operating system called LiMo. As the mobile phone market evolves, software is becoming more crucial ... Read story »

oFono, mobile open source project - May 20, 2009

Crave High-level architecture for oFono. This went under the radar last week, but what's worth noting is that the Maemo Software team from Nokia and the Open Source Technology Center from Intel ... Read story »

Symbian's first open-source software released - Jul 10, 2009

Crave The Symbian Foundation has released its first open-source software package, the first step in the organization's plan to eventually open-source the entire Symbian mobile operating system. The Symbian Foundation was set ... Read story »

First phone to come with Google Android 2.0 arrives - Oct 29, 2009

Crave Initial response to the new Motorola Droid smartphone on the Verizon Wireless network have been very good, thanks in large part to the updated Android 2.0 operating system. The new updated ... Read story »

AIS sells Thailand's first Android phone - Jun 8, 2009

Blogs Not quite making the local headlines like True Move did with the release of the iPhone 3G on its network, AIS has started selling the HTC Magic running on Android. Trend-savvy ... Read story »

Internet maverick proposes a DIY GSM base station! - May 18, 2009

Blogs Dr Onno Purbo, Indonesia's most prominent information technology advocate, just proposed another "crazy" idea: Do-it-yourself GSM base station! According to him, we could create our own GSM base station and provide ... Read story »

Will 2009 be the year of the Android? - Dec 22, 2008

Crave Though Apple had been making headlines with the iPhone 3G, the smart phone to beat in 2009 is the Android-based HTC G1. Powering the G1 is an open source operating system ... Read story »

Hackers of Southeast Asia unite! - Nov 25, 2009

Blogs (Disclaimer: Yahoo! is a client and did NOT pay or request for this blog post. However, the writer does believe this event to be pretty significant in Indonesian technology circles.) There once ... Read story »

Frankencamera is open source, runs on Linux - Sep 4, 2009

Crave Marc Levoy, professor of Computer Science and of Electrical Engineering, said: "The premise of the project is to build a camera that is open source." On his right is graduate student ... Read story »

Google Wave addon for Firefox - Oct 16, 2009

Crave If you are already on Google Wave, this might come in handy, a Firefox addon. Yes, so soon after the public preview of this online collaboration tool started, someone has already ... Read story »

PS3 the new crime-busting tool - Nov 18, 2009

Crave The PlayStation 3 has been used for a variety of altruistic tasks following its launch in 2006. Perhaps the most high-profile of these ventures is the Folding@home project, which uses spare ... Read story »

An Android SmartQ 5 MID - Sep 1, 2009

Crave When we reviewed the original SmartQ 5 MID, the excitement of handling what was one of the cheapest MIDs in the market was hampered by a sucky operating system that ... Read story »

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