Archive for November, 2011

Posted on November 29, 2011 - by admin

[Phoronix] AMD's Paying For Some Open-Source OpenCL Love

AMD's interested in driving the use of OpenCL within the open – source world, and they're willing to pay for it. One of their new contracts is to have more of the OpenCL work for GIMP/GEGL on the Open Computing Language. …

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Posted on November 29, 2011 - by admin

Strength Test Facility for Open Source Appropriate Technology …

This project came about partly because I am an engineer, and I “need to know” these sorts of things, but was also spurred on by reading an paper on “3-D Printing of Open Source Appropriate Technologies for Self-Directed …

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Posted on November 29, 2011 - by admin

The Open Source Awards

The Open Source Awards. Packt Publishing has announced the winners of its sixth annual open source awards, and some familiar players have taken top spots. Take a look at the results and see if your favorite project won. …

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The Open Source Awards

Posted on November 29, 2011 - by admin

RepRap: Blog: Quality – Open Source for the Win (Part Deux)

Quality – Open Source for the Win (Part Deux). A short while ago Neil posted here about the way RepRap 3D print quality is starting to knock spots off the proprietary competition. Well. This blog is not the place for RepRap …

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Timbuktu Chronicles: Open Source Hardware. What is it good for?

With OSHW, companies that do have the drive, funding and know-how can pick up an open source project from a developer that doesn't. There are none of the IP concerns that sometimes keep big companies from taking on …

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Timbuktu Chronicles: Open Source Hardware. What is it good for?

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Portabliss: Bag It! (iOS/Android) | Joystiq

The only inconvenient part of it is finding the right games to buy — and that's where we come in, with our Portabliss column. In each installment, we'll tell you about a downloadable game on the iPhone, iPad, Android device, …

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Android Overload: HTC Facing Ban In Germany, Nokia N900 …

Greetings, Phandroids! I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving weekend full of turkey and amazing deals. Now that things are calming down around here, we.

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Posted on November 29, 2011 - by admin

AT&T “Knee-Deep” In Talks To Hand Over T-Mobile Customers To …

According to the New York Times, we may have some new insight on exactly what AT&T has up their sleeves to salvage their acquisition of T-Mobile.

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The Open Source Procurement Toolkit: Still crippled by "free …

The recent release of the Open Source Procurement Toolkit by the Cabinet Office has been interesting and encouraging, even if it did stir in me a certain scepticism that things will be different this time round. Under both …

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Posted on November 29, 2011 - by admin

Creating a viewlet manager in Plone | Open Source Hacker

Open Source Hacker. Pushing the boundaries of free technology. Search … for related Python code: * http://code.google.com/p/plonegomobile/source/browse/gomobiletheme.basic/trunk/gomobiletheme/basic/viewlets.py#80 …

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