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Organizations that are interested in using open source in their own products but are wary of intellectual property issues might want to examine a new, mostly free, assistance program just launched by the non-profit Linux Foundation. The Open Compliance Program includes an assessment checklist, training programs, and software tools to monitor open source software usage. [...]

The new version of the Terracotta distributed Java caching software is able, for the first time, to aggregate more than a terabyte of pooled memory for a single application and its data, the company announced this week. The software, Ehcache 2.2, can also hold up to several hundred million Java objects in a single cache, [...]

A mobile advertising company has written a JavaScript library that makes Flash advertisements viewable on devices such as the iPad, working around Apple’s opposition to Adobe Systems’ multimedia platform. The library, called Smokescreen, renders Flash advertisements into JavaScript and HTML5 within the browser if a device can’t read Flash. Smokescreen, which was primarily developed by [...]

Google has released the source code for an an Android phone GPS program called My Tracks that lets people record where they’ve been, to log journeys in Google Docs, and to post their trip maps online. “You can expect My Tracks to become better than ever with the contributions we hope it will receive from [...]

Microsoft this week made available a final release of ASP.Net MVC 2, which provides a Model View Controller pattern for building Web applications leveraging ASP.Net. Version 2 is available for Visual Studio 2008/Visual Web Developer 2008 Express with ASP.Net 3.5, said Scott Guthrie, corporate vice president in the Microsoft Developer Division, in a blog entry on [...]

Palm opened up its WebOS developer program to the public on Thursday, saying it expects to see a flood of new applications developed for the mobile OS. “We look forward to some incredible growth in our application catalog this year,” said Katie Mitic, Palm’s senior vice president of product marketing, at the Consumer Electronics Show [...]

Palm opened up its WebOS developer program to the public on Thursday, saying it expects to see a flood of new applications developed for the mobile OS. “We look forward to some incredible growth in our application catalog this year,” said Katie Mitic, Palm’s senior vice president of product marketing, at the Consumer Electronics Show [...]

Palm opened up its WebOS developer program to the public on Thursday, saying it expects to see a flood of new applications developed for the mobile OS. “We look forward to some incredible growth in our application catalog this year,” said Katie Mitic, Palm’s senior vice president of product marketing, at the Consumer Electronics Show [...]