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Open-source smart card project launched

A Dutch charity is funding an open-source project to design smart card software that offers stronger protection of personal data in light of security...

Open source tour of Europe: The Netherlands

To coincide with EURO 2008, I’m embarking on a virtual European tour, taking a quick look at open source policies and deployment projects in...

Open source solution to ‘dirty data’ problem?

The problem of so-called ‘dirty data’ – data that contains duplications, omissions or other errors – has been a serious issue in corporate IT...

How to scan and OCR like a pro with open source tools

  With optical character recognition (OCR), you can scan the contents of a document into a single file of editable text. This article, which focuses...

Nokia buys Symbian, will open Symbian OS

Author: Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols Symbian, the company behind the popular proprietary mobile/embedded operating system of the same name, just turned 10, but it won't see...

HP Open Sources Unix File System for Linux

HP is opening up its Tru64 Advanced File System (AdvFS) to the open source Linux community in a bid to help further Linux file...

Fair trade coffee & Open source Java

When Starbucks grew from regional powerhouse to cultural phenomenon, there was one small problem: the coffee they sold did not jive with their brand....

OpenLX and KalCulate pair Linux distro with proprietary accounting app

Author: Suhit Kelkar Most free-libre accounting applications that ship with GNU/Linux distributions are for personal accounting only: they manage one person's finances. Corporations and accounting...

Java Is Finally Free and Open

Back in May 2006, Sun announced during the JavaOne conference it would release Java as open source, licensed as GPL software. While it was...

Mail merge in OpenOffice.org

The office where I am network administrator switched most users to OpenOffice.org (OOo) back at version 1.1, and has followed the upgrade process to...