A look at Symbian's on-again, off-again history with open source.
by Bruce Stewart
| @bruce_stewart | 11 April 2011
Symbian, once Nokia's flagship smartphone OS, has had a rocky road recently. It looks like its on-again/off-again open source saga is finally coming to a closed ending.
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Open Compute could be a big step forward for infrastructure, ops, and the web.
by Jesse Robbins
| @jesserobbins | 7 April 2011
Jesse Robbins says Facebook's Open Compute Project represents a giant step for open source hardware, for the evolution of the web and cloud computing, and for infrastructure and operations in general.
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The first NASA Open Source Summit highlighted policy and progress.
by Alex Howard
| @digiphile | 7 April 2011
NASA's commitment to open source and its gameplan for open government were discussed at the recent NASA Open Source Summit. Here's a look at the open source issues and opportunities the agency faces.
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A data task illustrates the importance of simple and flexible tools.
by Mike Loukides
| @mikeloukides | 7 April 2011
While we have an extraordinary wealth of power data tools at our disposal, we'll be the
poorer if we forget the basics. Here's an example of how simple data tools can be put to use.
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Google takes the moral middle ground, Hollywood turns to Turing, and an April Fool's gag turns real.
by James Turner
| @blackbearnh | 6 April 2011
In the latest Developer Week in Review: Google tries to bulk up its patent portfolio, filmmakers are taking a look at the life of an early software pioneer, and researchers decided to turn an April Fool's joke into reality.
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Memcached lets your servers spend time on the important stuff.
by James Turner
| @blackbearnh | 5 April 2011
Memcached is one of the linchpin technologies that holds the modern Internet together, but do you know what it actually does? Brian Aker offers a peek under the hood.
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