The Big Business of Tiny Widgets
Facebook developers' conference turns up plenty of business models.

Facebook Wants to Power Web-Wide Apps
Zuckerberg talks up Facebook's plans to host applications and connect users beyond its site while clamping down on rogue developers. But it's got its work cut out for it.


OpenSolaris to Support Facebook, OpenSocial
Log into an OpenSolaris host and start building apps for Facebook and OpenSocial right away and have the scalability to grow, Sun claims.


Sun Takes a Shine to Linux in New Web Stack
But by offering a standardized stack across a variety of OSes, the company also looks to displace the traditional offerings from Linux vendors.


MySQL: Back to Its Roots via Sun
Six months after being acquired by Sun, MySQL founders explain what's going on.


Ubuntu Founder: Linux Should Focus on Looks
Shuttleworth challenges open source community to best Apple in user experience and stresses the importance of free software.


Intel's Building Blocks Thread Open Source
Chip leader improves performance of developer tool for parallel development by canceling and blocking.


What Lies Ahead for SOA?
Technical approaches to implementing SOA abound, but business considerations may win over.


Novell Turns ICE Into Kablink
Seven months after acquiring Sitescape, Novell reissues open source collaboration project as Kablink with the workflow market in its sights.


Is Open Source Development Insecure?
A leading application security firm issues research report alleging that open source software developers are missing the security boat.


JUNOS: Open, but Not Open Source
What does it mean to release a network operating system every quarter for 10 years?


Sun Gives Enterprises a New Mobility Option
Sun says its enterprise applications can now synchronize with Windows Mobile, Palm and BlackBerry devices.


iPhone Knocking on the Enterprise
Slew of third-party vendors rush to get a piece of the iPhone real estate.


Linux 2.6.26 Opens Up to Debugging
New Linux kernel gets new debugger, virtualization and memory support amid its improvements.


Borland Launches ALM Management Tools
Three tools are designed to provide a look into the application's development over the course of the project.


Nominations Open for CEO Vision Awards
Who are the most visionary CEOs in tech? Submit your nominations by Aug. 2 for the 2008 InternetNews.com CEO Vision Awards.


A Look at Google's Open Source Protocol Buffer
With petabytes of data floating around, Google developed its own protocol for data interchange and now it's open sourcing it.


MySpace Catches iPhone Fever
Social networking giant doubles down on its mobile efforts with a free app for Apple's iPhone.


Software Drives the iPhone 3G
As interest in the next iPhone grows to a fever pitch ahead of Friday's debut, developers ready its next generation of software.


Novell's Linux Build Service Goes Open
The company exposes the same tools it uses to build its Linux, with the aim of simplifying the task of application delivery for the open source community.


 


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