MEPs for more public sector open source use
The European Parliament adopted its report “Towards a Digital Single Market” in response to the European Commission’s Digital Single Market strategy in mid-January, the Free Software Foundation Europe...
View ArticleUnicef promotes open source in fight against poverty
Unicef has a total of US $ 9 mn. to promote start-ups whose technology can improve young peoples' lives. However, these must involve open source projects.
View ArticleLibreOffice 5.1 released
The Document Foundation has announced the release today of LibreOffice 5.1, a full featured open source office suite with superior interoperability features, for all major platforms – Linux, Mac OSX...
View ArticleRussian government to switch to desktop Linux?
The Russian government is reported to be contemplating dropping Microsoft Windows and adopting Linux as the operating system for agency PCs according to its internet czar, German Klimenko. Mr Klimenko...
View ArticleSan Francisco to use open source election software
San Francisco is likely to become the first city to use open source software for elections, The Register reports. El Reg goes on to mention that the hope is for the city to develop balloting systems...
View ArticleFree software is our Valentine
Tomorrow is 14th February. Most people know this as Saint Valentine’s Day, when traditionally florists are overworked, restaurants overcharge and a gentleman generally has his motives questioned should...
View ArticleThe Document Foundation is 4 today
Today The Document Foundation, the independent self-governing meritocratic body created by former leading members of the OpenOffice.org Community to continue developing a free and open source office...
View ArticleLinux Foundation to build real-time OS for IoT
The Linux Foundation yesterday announced the Zephyr™ Project, an open source collaborative effort to build a real-time operating system (RTOS) for the Internet of Things (IoT). Early supporters for the...
View ArticleEuropean Open Data portal enters normal operation
After three months' beta testing version 1.0 of the European open data portal is now online in three additional languages and with 165,000 data sets available.
View ArticleLinux Mint security advisory
Linux Mint is a great and popular Linux distribution. Unfortunately its servers were recently compromised by malicious persons. If you’ve downloaded a Linux Mint disk image recently, we advise you to...
View ArticleCiviDay 2016 in Bristol
CiviCRM is a great free and open source CRM package that’s used by thousands of organisations (many in the community and voluntary sectors. Ed.) around the world to maintain their contacts database,...
View ArticleEverest Base Camp has better internet than English villages
News emerged last week that Everest Base Camp in Nepal has better internet connection speeds than some villages in Somerset and Gloucestershire. Research by Cable.co.uk revealed that Brent Knoll in...
View ArticleUbuntu to launch tablet
In a brief post on Facebook, Ubuntu announced yesterday that it would soon be launching its first ever Ubuntu Linux-powered tablet, the BQ Aquaris M10. For this project, Ubuntu has partnered with...
View ArticleUS government wants to commit to open source
The White House has presented a draft guideline according to which specially produced programs should in future be deployed throughout the administration and at least have their source code released...
View ArticleCampaigner accuses government of rural internet con
Friday’s Western Daily Press reports that it has come to light that almost half of homes and businesses in rural areas described as “live” on broadband maps are not connected for fast speeds, i.e. a...
View ArticleJournalist displays ignorance of encryption
There’s a general media adage that says never let the truth get in the way of a good story. It seems this maxim is now being applied by members of the fourth estate to that most concise social medium,...
View Article€6.4 million to develop cloud computing server
A consortium that includes engineers from Bristol University has been awarded €6.4 million to develop a new type of cloud computing server, which could lead to much faster processing, better resource...
View ArticleBristol & Lund universities set new world record in 5G wireless spectrum...
New research by engineers from the Universities of Bristol and Lund (Sweden), working alongside National Instruments (NI), has demonstrated how a massive antenna system can offer a 12-fold increase in...
View ArticleSamsung is designing an IoT operating system
Le Monde Informatique reports that Samsung is currently developing an open source operating system tailored for the internet of things (IoT). Details of it will be given next month at the South Korean...
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