BBC claims angry iPlayer plugin mob ‘conflated’ open source term

(THE REGISTER) - The BBC has tried to draw a line under its decision to bar open source implementations of RTMP (real-time messaging protocol) streaming in the iPlayer, after The Register revealed the Corporation’s quiet switcheroo last week.
BBC online managing editor Ian Hunter claimed in a blog post today that the term [...]

Hobo, the Rapid Web App Builder for Ruby on Rails, Moves from Beta to Version 1.0

Hobo, the rapid web app builder for Rails, moves from beta to Version 1.0 after 3 years of community development. Celebrations start with two new Hobo books, a new logo and screencast and a whole universe of 1.0 improvements.
London, UK (PRWEB) Feb 23, 2010 — Hobo, the open source rapid web app builder for Ruby [...]

Opera cuts cord on first open-source baby

(THE REGISTER) - Opera has freed its first open source project, moving code for its Dragonfly debug tool onto the popular BitBucket hosting service.
Dragonfly - a website debug tool similar to Mozilla’s Firebug - was always intended as an open source project. From its inception in 2008, it carried an open source [...]

Daydream Publish Whitepaper on Metadata Strategies For Marketing Based Digital Asset Management

Leading European Enterprise Digital Asset Management (DAM) specialists, Daydream today publish a whitepaper on metadata strategies that marketing managers can use to significantly enhance the ROI that they can obtain from DAM systems and their stock of media assets.
London (PRWEB) February 5, 2010 — Daydream leading Open Source Enterprise Digital Asset Management (DAM) specialists have [...]

UK.gov tweaks open source policy small print

(CHANNEL REGISTER) - The UK government has rejigged its open source and open standards software procurement policy, following pressure from OSS vendors last autumn.
Early last year the Cabinet Office revised its rules on public sector open source software purchases, but many OSS players complained that the policy amendments didn’t go far [...]

Steps to adopt open source technology standards draw flak

(THE ECONOMIC TIMES) - India’s open source software lobbyists allege that the country’s proposed draft recommendations for adopting open technology standards and software for automating different government departments and functions, favours popular software solutions from large companies such as Microsoft.
According to people familiar with the draft recommendations, a meeting of the apex body on Standards [...]

New Version of Razuna, the Most Popular Open Source Media Library, is Now Available for Download

Razuna 1.3.5, released today, contains many important new features, including a much improved API, full integration with Wordpress, and full support for audio files including on-the-fly format conversion. Razuna 1.3.5 is available as a free download at http://www.razuna.org.

London, UK (PRWEB) January 17, 2010 — Razuna Ltd. today announced the general availability of Razuna 1.3.5, a [...]

NAMM: A Mad Professor of the Stompbox Goes Open Source

(WIRED) - Zachary Vex, the mastermind behind the handcrafted and hand-painted Z.Vex line of boutique guitar effect pedals, has decided to release his designs to the public. His newest device, a new pedal called the Inventobox, allows anyone to hack his creations however they choose.
Z.Vex pedals are coveted by collectors for their mystique and funky [...]

Apple ceding open-source app market to Google?

(CNET) - Whether you’re an open-source advocate or not, you likely run open-source applications on your laptop or desktop. From Firefox to VLC to Handbrake to Adium, some of the best applications for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux are open source.
The iPhone, however, is a relative wasteland for open source. Should Apple care?
OStatic points [...]

Open source became big business in 2009

(CNET) - Open source has long been an important development methodology. The biggest surprise of 2009, however, was just how quickly it took center stage as a business strategy in the larger software economy.
The reason? Google.
It’s not as if open source as a business strategy is anything new. After all, the industry has been chattering [...]