Monday, October 15, 2007

K-12 Open Source News, 15 October 2007

In the News

NDTV Profit reports, "Microsoft Corporation today announced two new initiatives at the Microsoft Interoperability Conclave held in Bangalore....Microsoft's first Interoperability Lab in India, designed to help customers envision and build solutions which are interoperable; and an Open Source Technology Program designed to further open source research and development of open source applications on the Windows platform..."

A New York Times editorial claims, "Google isn’t making a phone, it is developing an open-source cellphone operating system. Google will, no doubt build some proprietary applications that run on it..."

From the U.N. Dispatch: "Yesterday, the United Nations Foundation and the Vodafone Group Foundation announced the successful conclusion of a year long pilot program that integrated open source mobile phone technology into the public health systems of Kenya and Zambia."

"Linspire, Inc., developer of the Linspire commercial and Freespire community desktop Linux operating systems and CNR.com, a free Linux software delivery service, (recently) announced the immediate availability of Linspire 6.0, the latest commercial release of the desktop Linux operating system."

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