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Posted on February 10, 2012 - by admin

Alexandria – powers Sourceforge.net

OSQA is the open source Q&A system. It is more than just an FAQ page, it is a full-featured Q&A community. Users earn points and badges for useful participation, and everyone in the community wins. OSQA is built and maintained by a team …

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Posted on February 10, 2012 - by admin

New Hampshire Legislature Passes Open-Source Software Bill …

The bill, HB 418, requires government officials to consider open – source products when making new technology acquisitions and only purchase products that comply with open data standards. Last year, Nick Judd covered …

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Posted on February 10, 2012 - by admin

Drupal Usability Study at – Google Open Source Blog

I am excited to announce what a huge success the Drupal usability studies were last week! We livestreamed 8 usability sessions using both Google+ Hangouts on Air and Livestream.com and had over 115 people watching live! The exciting …

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InfoQ: Native Android Development Practices

Josh Long and Roy Clarkson discuss developing native mobile applications for Android with String Android .

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Posted on February 10, 2012 - by admin

Android 4.0 Acer CloudMobile headed for MWC

Acer has taken the wraps off of one of their products headed to Mobile World Congress a couple weeks early. The Android 4.0 Acer CloudMobile will be among.

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New Android App Lets You Flashback To The Arcades Of …

Those of you looking for a more authentic experience while playing Super Street Fighter II on your Android tab may want to turn down the lights and crank up one of these amazing Arcade Ambience tracks — it'll be 1993 again …

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Foursquare Android app adds NFC check-ins, Beam support

The Foursquare Android app adds support for NFC-based Android Beam support where you can share your venues and more.

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Berlin Buzzwords 2012

Berlin Buzzwords 2012 is a conference for developers and users of open source software projects, focusing on the issues of scalable search, data-analysis in the cloud and NoSQL-databases. Berlin Buzzwords presents more than 30 talks …

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GigaOM Structure Data in New York

Berlin Buzzwords 2012 is a conference for developers and users of open source software projects, focusing on the issues of scalable search, data-analysis in the cloud and NoSQL-databases. Berlin Buzzwords presents more than 30 talks …

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Hadoop Summit 2012 in San Jose

OSCON open source convention gathers open source innovators to discuss about the various happenings in the technology. The talks include Data analtyics, Hadoop, Java, Perl, PHP, Mobile, Cloud and lot more. Date: July 25 – July 29 …

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