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Links 22/5/2012: Google/Motorola Deal Secured, Chrome Passes IE





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GNU/Linux



Free Software/Open Source



  • Survey: Open Source Adoption Rises, Drives Innovation
    More than 50 percent of all software purchased within five years will be open source, according to a survey released Monday by a collaboration of 26 open source companies.

    This year’s “Future of Open Source Survey” results signal a tipping point for open source software adoption in the enterprise and non-technical industries such as automotive, health care and finance. In the auto industry, for example, 59 percent of the companies surveyed use open source software and 35 percent said they’re evaluating it.


  • US Army trains in open source 3-D virtual cyber-world
    Intended to simulate "in theatre" scenarios to stimulate team building skills and wider training and analysis initiatives, the work to test out as many as 400 use cases is being carried out in the Research Lab Simulation and Training Technology Center in Orlando.


  • Open Source Finds Its Way Into Mobile, Cloud, Big Data
    As the Open Source Business Conference gets underway in San Francisco, a survey shows that open-source software is contributing to development in some of the top IT trends of the day.

    Mobile computing, cloud computing and analyzing huge amounts of data are among the top IT trends in 2012 and are also the focus of the Open Source Business Conference (OSBC) 2012 that begins May 21 in San Francisco.


  • Web Browsers



    • Chrome

      • Google Chrome Becomes World's No. 1 Web Browser; Still No. 2 In US
        Well THAT was quick. Just six months after Google Chrome eclipsed Mozilla's Firefox to become the world's second most popular Web browser, Chrome finally surpassed Microsoft's Internet Explorer on Sunday to become the most-used Web browser in the world, according to Statcounter.


      • Google Chrome: First run around the track


      • Chrome passes IE in browser share
        Chrome has passed Internet Explorer in browser share according to StatCounter's latest numbers and Firefox's recent downward trend appears to be over. Google's open-source-based Chrome has been steadily gaining share according to StatCounter's logs and, for the week just past, had a 32.76% share. IE on the other hand has been steadily declining since 2009, and in the same week took a 31.94% share.




    • Mozilla

      • Who Loves Ya, Linux Baby?
        We here in the Linux blogosphere tend to be pretty good at that, but recently a surprising turn of events left us befuddled. Namely: Mozilla's decision to leave Linux support out of the initial release of its upcoming Web Apps marketplace.

        Mozilla has been nothing if not a friend to FOSS over the years -- indeed, it's one of our very own best successes -- and Linux users tend to be among its most ardent supporters.






  • SaaS



  • Oracle/Java/LibreOffice



  • Openness/Sharing



    • Open Access/Content



    • Open Hardware

      • Open Source Machines: New Ideas Are Arriving
        Bring up the term open source to many people, and they'll immediately think of community-driven software projects, but we've covered many open source hardware concepts here on OStatic over the years. And, last year, the official Open Source Hardware (OSHW) definition arrived in version 1.1. Recently, TED fellow Marcin Jakubowski delivered an address in which he discussed the open source blueprints for 50 farm machines, ranging from tractors to harvesters. You can get his thoughts in a video, but these farm-focused ideas are only a small part of the open source hardware scene.






  • Programming

    • Perl 5.16.0 now available
      The Perl developers have announced that Perl 5.16.0 is now available, after twelve months of development following the release of Perl 5.14.0. The changes in Perl 5.16 are designed to improve the language without breaking any past software.






Leftovers

  • Microsoft charges to remove crapware
    Software giant Microsoft is offering to delete all the crapware which OEMs are forever installing on computers.

    Microsoft will do this for a fee. Sorting out your computer so it is bloatware free will cost you $99.




  • Finance

    • The True Costs of Bank Crises
      Ultimately the particulars of J.P. Morgan’s losses are so much noise. What they point to is an economic system designed to self-destruct. Add increasing environmental degradation in the face of global warming to structural financial fragility and what capitalism appears to have created is a full-blown suicide machine. And to invert Mr. Haldane’s premise—the $60 trillion in lost production (minimum) was never going to go to us anyway. The trajectory since the 1970s had it going to corporate executives, bankers and machines (automation).






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