Google open-sources data exchange language
Google has open-sourced its protocol buffers, the company's lingua franca for encoding various types of data, in order to set the stage for a wave of new releases, according to official company blog posts and documents.
Amid transition, Symbian starts paid partner program
Symbian launched a partner program for software developers working with its mobile OS, taking an interim step to attract more developers while the OS moves toward open-source availability.
Bad blood over Linspire's sale to Xandros
One of the first commercial Linux distributions aimed at the average computer user, Linspire, has just been sold to Xandros and undergone a name change to Digital Cornerstone. Xandros may not be very commonly known, but it is the distro being used by Asus on the EeePC.
OOXML projects bolster Microsoft's interoperability efforts
Microsoft on Monday unveiled projects to improve data portability between Office 2007 and other document file formats as part of an interoperability promise.
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