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Red Hat: 'We spend over $100 million a year to advance Linux' | The Open Road - CNET News
"I used to complain that the Web companies pick and choose where to contribute back, but it all seems to work out in the end. Yahoo works on Hadoop while Red Hat releases KVM while Google releases Gears while...you get the picture. Different companies releasing and "free-riding" on different open-source code, with the entire industry growing and benefiting in the process."
Google Open Sources Heart and Soul of Google Wave Code
Google July 24 said it released to open source the OT (Operational Transform) code, the framework that enables multiple people to edit a single document in real time across a wide-area network, as well as a basic client/server prototype that uses the wave protocol. Google Wave programmers issued the code under an Apache 2.0 license during an event hosted for 150 developers who desired a deeper dive into the software and possibly even to pony up code for the Google Wave Federation Protocol.
Dell: Chrome OS is one of many Linux-based OSes | Crave - CNET
"Basically, Chrome falls in line with Dell has been working on. It sounds like they think it will be a good option for Dell Netbooks, but until Chrome is ready to ship on a product, Dell users are going to get Moblin Linux or Dell's own flavor of Ubuntu, which it already offers."
Official Google Blog: Introducing the Google Chrome OS
"Google Chrome OS will run on both x86 as well as ARM chips and we are working with multiple OEMs to bring a number of netbooks to market next year. The software architecture is simple — Google Chrome running within a new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel. For application developers, the web is the platform."
Google Plans a PC Operating System - NYTimes.com
"The first wave of netbooks relied on various versions of the open-source Linux operating system, and major PC makers like Hewlett-Packard and Dell have backed the Linux software. Intel, the world’s largest chip maker, has worked on developing a Linux-based operating system called Moblin as well. The company has aimed the software at netbooks and smartphones in a bid to spur demand for its Atom mobile device chip."
Google to slip SVG into Internet Explorer • The Register
"Microsoft might be hesitating on Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) in Internet Explorer 8, but Google's pressing on. The search giant's engineers are building a JavaScript library to render static and dynamic SVG in Microsoft's browser. Google promised that the library, a Javascript shim, will simply drop into IE."
Microsoft gets out of the way of Bing | The Open Road - CNET News
"Microsoft has a great brand, but it also has a brand that carries a lot of baggage with it, baggage that its search service (or "decision engine," as it describes Bing) really doesn't need. One of the great failings of Microsoft's past search efforts is that Microsoft tried to tie them into the larger Microsoft experience which, it turned out, wasn't helpful. Microsoft's brand is tied up in the desktop. Search is all about the Web."
Java makes Google App Engine more mainstream | Webware - CNET
"Thus far, App Engine had been limited to Web applications written in the Python programming language favored internally at Google but not as much elsewhere. But on Tuesday, the top-requested App Engine feature, support for Java programs, arrived--albeit only in a preview form initially available only to the first 10,000 developers who sign up."
iGoogle gets video game makers in on the action | Webware - CNET
"Google unveiled on Wednesday the latest addition to its iGoogle start page service: a collection of themes designed by video game publishers."
The Google OS is coming by year's end | InfoWorld | News | 2009-03-09 | By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, Computerworld
"Android is already a desktop operating system and Asus has assigned engineers to develop an Android-based netbook by the end of the year"
Google Adds Billing to App Engine
"Google announced Feb. 24 that the company has added billing to the Google App Engine cloud computing platform so developers can exceed the free usage quotas that have been in place. Google also said it will soon be reducing, but not eliminating, the free quotas."
Google wants to join EU case against Microsoft | Microsoft - CNET News
"Google wants to help the European Commission prove antitrust charges against Microsoft related to the software giant's dominance of the Web browser market. The Web search giant, which recently released its Chrome Web browser, announced Tuesday that it is applying to be a "third party" in the European proceedings, which will entitle it to receive access to confidential documents in the case and the ability to voice objections."
Google crashes the smart-grid party | Green Tech - CNET News
"The search giant on Tuesday muscled into the burgeoning smart-grid software business, showing off a prototype Web application that displays home energy consumption broken down by appliance. The software uses so-called smart meters, which can communicate home energy consumption back to utilities every few minutes."
Google Latitude Broadcasts Your Location | Epicenter from Wired.com
"Looking for an easy way to stalk your friends? Google has the answer with its new Latitude service for mobile devices. Google Latitude broadcasts your location from your mobile phone, letting your friends know where you are and allowing you to keep tabs on them."
Google Blames Human Error for Malware Warning Mistake
"Someone at Google is having a very bad start to their weekend. Google’s VP of Search Products Marissa Mayer has just responded to the issue today that marked all Google results with the warning “This site may harm your computer” and advised users not to visit them."
Is Google App Engine successful? | The Wisdom of Clouds - CNET News
"So, all of this might lead you to believe I'm anti-App Engine, or at least not confident that it is important except as a PaaS example. And until yesterday, you would be right. However, I spent the day yesterday at the Cloud Connect conference, hosted at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif. Google was much more visible here (in part because they were a "platinum sponsor"), and perhaps more importantly, the "how to" sessions they hosted Wednesday afternoon were packed by interested developers and technologists."
Open-Source Cloud Tools Project Spawns Cloud Foundry
"The Cloud Tools project, hosted on Google Code, is a prime example of the emerging trend of open-source application developers targeting the cloud and looking at services such as Amazon Web Services solutions and Google App Engine to host their applications. Cloud Tools is a set of tools for deploying, managing and testing Java Enterprise Edition applications on Amazon.com's Amazon Elastic Computing Cloud. And now the Cloud Tools project's founder has launched a commercial service based on Cloud Tools known as Cloud Foundry."
Google Creates Open-Source App Engine Project for Exporting Blog Content
"Google unveils the open-source Blog Converters project for federating the exchange of data between blogging platforms, including Blogger, MoveableType, WordPress and LiveJournal. Blog Converters is just one facet of a fundamental shift from siloed Web sites, which lock users in to their services, to a more boundless Web, where users can liberally migrate their data from one Web site to the next."
Christian Renaud's Weblog: Lively heads for the giraffe graveyard
"Google announced yesterday on their blog that they are shuttering the Lively project. This is unfortunate for multiple reasons"
Lively - 3D Avatars and Rooms
[Via Mitch Wagner] "After careful consideration, we have decided to shut down Lively."
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