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"In other words, Microsoft’s plans to launch iPad versions of OneNote, Lync and SkyDrive, which isn’t optimized for Apple’s tablet, is just smart business. Simply put, the killer app on a single platform days are over."

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"Popular open source mobile development framework "wrapper" PhoneGap has applied for consideration to the Apache Software Foundation and contemplating a name change. In a message in PhoneGap's Google Groups development page, Nitobi software developer Brian Leroux said that the project has "initialized the process to contribute PhoneGap to the Apache Software Foundation" and that they may change the name to Apache DeviceReady."

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"As readers of our earlier post on the "greenest" code will no doubt remember, there is some debate over what code is, in fact, greenest. Some codes may run faster in some instances; other codes in others. This is one of the questions Liu wants to tackle, who has noted that none of the mainstream computer languages support "energy-aware programming.""

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"Expect to see Mac software prices dropping by 90-95% within a month. Traditional developers will fight to hold onto their price points, but they’ll be overrun by the Huns and The Flood. They may hold their price points, but they’ll be mired in so much noise from the iOS horde that their products will begin to lose traction."

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"Black Duck Software, the leading global provider of products and services for accelerating software development through the managed use of open source software, today announced that it has acquired Ohloh.net from Geeknet, Inc (NASDAQ: GKNT.) The transaction closed on September 30, 2010.

Ohloh, founded in 2006, is the largest free public directory of open source software, and also hosts a vibrant web community of software developers and Free and Open Source (FOSS) users. Ohloh’s directory contains information aggregated from over 250,000 public code repositories, projects and forums. Black Duck, which has acquired all assets of the Ohloh property, will maintain and enhance the Ohloh website, brand, and project information for the Ohloh community, and will ultimately combine Ohloh and Koders.com to establish a comprehensive, free resource for developers to find, create, use and manage FOSS."

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"The problem that Mr. Hemel and others have stumbled upon is that some companies, even some technology savvy ones, may be violating the rather easy-to-follow requirements associated with free software licenses. Typically, these include making tweaked versions of a free software product available to the public, or simply giving credit to the original developers. "

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"There are many applications that can help you work faster and efficiently. Though, not many applications come cheap. For this post we tried to digg deep to find the best selection of free and/or open source Mac applications that will help you be a more efficient designer. We’re covering from application launchers, GTD (Getting Things Done) to design utilities that can help you focus on what’s important: create."

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"In development for over a decade, COPASI (Complex Pathway Simulator) involves an international collaboration between VBI Professor Pedro Mendes' research groups at Virginia Tech and the University of Manchester and Professor Ursula Kummer's group at the University of Heidelberg. Allowing users with limited experience in mathematics to develop models and simulations of biochemical networks, COPASI supports the Systems Biology Markup Language (SBML) standard for systems biology software and provides researchers the computational tools needed to investigate how a system is working through the construction of biochemical models."

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"Your current feed reader is full of unread items. You’re hesitant to subscribe to any more feeds because you can't keep up with your existing subs. Maybe you've even abandoned feeds altogether.

Fever takes the temperature of your slice of the web and shows you what's hot."

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"Since our collection of Free and Open Source finance/accounting software for Linux has been quite popular, I would like to add 7 more to that list. As I've said before, finance or accounting software will prove valuable for those who have small or medium-sized business as it will allow users to do important tasks like recording and processing accounting transactions within functional modules such as accounts receivable, accounts payable, payroll, and trial balance."

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"This diagram by Chao-Kuei explains the different categories of software."

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"The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) -- developers, stewards, and incubators of 138 Open Source projects -- today announced the 15th anniversary of the Apache HTTP Web Server.

The ASF's first project became the world's most popular Web server software within the first six months of its inception. The Apache HTTP Server today powers nearly 112 million Websites world-wide."

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"One of the great things about being a Mac user is the whole culture of indie apps. Like indie filmmakers and musicians, indie application developers are small businesses, working independently of big-company constraints. They follow their own vision building apps, and often create tools that easier to use, richer, and more beautiful than the products of big companies -- and they don't cost much either. They are among my favorite Mac apps."

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"There's always a moment when you realize that all is lost, that there is absolutely no way THIS project can be a success. Here's a few signs that should suggest your project is headed for failure."

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"LaTeX is a high-quality typesetting system; it includes features designed for the production of technical and scientific documentation. LaTeX is the de facto standard for the communication and publication of scientific documents. LaTeX is available as free software."

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"Last week, Wolfram Research announced that it was developing a cloud computing service for users of its Mathematica software used to graph and understand complex mathematics, physics, and engineering problems."

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"As senior software engineering manager of IBM's AlphaWorks, Laura Bennett oversees a team that is responsible for maintaining relationships with more than 2,000 IBM research scientists around the world. An ex-programmer herself, Bennett's vision for AlphaWorks is to extend the division's reach to a wider audience and extend the scope of software engineering as a whole. She wants to challenge the skeptics who see no value in the kind of conceptual-level programming AlphaWorks encourages."

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"This is the official website of Gallery, the open source web based photo album organizer. Gallery gives you an intuitive way to blend photo management seamlessly into your own website whether you're running a small personal site or a large community site. "

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