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CES: HP reveals netbook with an all-day battery

Hewlett-Packard today announced a netbook PC that it said will be able to run for up to a full business day on a single battery charge.

EMC buys parts of SourceLabs to bolster cloud strategy

EMC has acquired assets from SourceLabs, a supplier of support and management tools for Linux and open source software.

Intel opens Netbook Linux centre

A new centre aimed at speeding the development of mobile computing devices around the Linux-based Moblin OS has opened.

Open source success due to Microsoft, claims report

The success of open source software is now being driven by its rapid commercialisation and not simply its appeal to evangelistic developers, a new report has suggested.

Red Hat to offer extended maintenance

Red Hat has extended its maintenance offering to make it more cost-effective for customers to run a single version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Microsoft comes clean on use of ODF

Microsoft is to publish technical documents describing how it built support for the rival Open Document Format (ODF) within Office 2007.

Novell rejigs OpenSUSE licensing

Novell's openSuSE project is becoming more open, as a new release due out Thursday includes licensing changes that make it easier to redistribute the Linux OS, and a build service to encourage more contributions from developers.

Mozilla issues eight Firefox patches

Mozilla has issued eight patches for its Firefox Web browser, three of which fix problems classified as critical.

PlusOffice to build on OpenOffice.org

OpenZone has announced PlusOffice Mac, an open-source software package that shares code with OpenOffice.org.

Beta version of Thunderbird 3.0 released

The first Beta version Thunderbird 3.0 is now available.

Cisco sued by Free Software Foundation for copyright infringement

The Free Software Foundation slapped Cisco with a lawsuit claiming copyright infringement related to Cisco's Linksys wireless routers

HP adopts Novell's SuSe for new PC range

Hewlett-Packard is set to offer Novell's SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop bundle on one of its desktop PCs.

Red Hat invests $12.5m in BI vendor JasperSoft

Red Hat has invested in open-source business-intelligence vendor JasperSoft as part of a $12.5 million round of funding.

Linux defenders urge patent pooling

Open Invention Network has launched a program to get open-source developers to document information about their work so that it can be easily read and used by patent offices and lawyers.

Microsoft and open source no longer at loggerheads

Microsoft is changing its previous "us vs. them" attitude toward open-source software.

Google Android Open Handset Alliance signs up phone giants

The Open Handset Alliance, the group backing Google’s Android mobile operating system, has signed up 14 new companies including Sony Ericsson and Vodafone.

Google developing Microsoft ActiveX rival

Google has unveiled software that could rival Microsoft’s Active X.

IBM to offer virtualised Lotus Notes

IBM has teamed up with Ubuntu and Virtual Bridges to offer a virtualised version of its Lotus Notes software. The companies claimed that users would be able to experience significant savings compared to a Windows-based machine.

Warning over Python upgrade

A new version of Python released last week, has incompatibilities with the 2.x line, according to the Python Software Foundation.

SugarCRM adds hooks to cloud data services

SugarCRM is set to give users the ability to plug in feeds from third-party data sources like the business social-networking site LinkedIn.

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