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  Microsoft backing OpenStreetMap, creating Google Maps competitor

  By Andrew Webster on March 27, 2012 01:19 pm + 63 comments

  OpenStreetMap is growing, with the likes of FourSquare switching to the service from Google Maps and Continue reading…

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  Microstang: Microsoft helps build a custom Mustang packed with Windows 8 and Kinect

  By Tom Warren on March 21, 2012 05:00 pm + 66 comments

  Microsoft might be busy preparing Windows 8, but that hasn't stopped a few of its Channel 9 team Continue reading…

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  Sony Mobile's Xperia S hacking tools offer expanded support for custom Android ROMs

  By Dieter Bohn on March 21, 2012 06:43 am + 10 comments

  Sony had already built a good name for itself amongst the Android hacking community by contributing Continue reading…

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  HP releasing some webOS 3.0.5 components as 'Community Edition'

  By Jeff Blagdon on March 15, 2012 03:36 am + 15 comments

  HP is open sourcing some components for webOS 3.0.5 under the name "Community Edition," says webOS Continue reading…

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  Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales becoming adviser to British government

  By Jamie Keene on March 12, 2012 10:01 am + 5 comments

  Wikipedia founder and friend of students everywhere Jimmy Wales is set to become an unpaid adviser Continue reading…

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  Nvidia joins Linux Foundation

  By Adi Robertson on March 8, 2012 10:30 am + 13 comments

  Nvidia, best known for its GeForce graphics cards and Tegra processors, has just joined the Linux Continue reading…

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  Enyo 2.0 gets new UI widgets for cross-browser support

  By Ryan Heise on March 1, 2012 07:01 am + 9 comments

  HP snuck in just under the wire in keeping up with its Open webOS release schedule, updating Enyo to Continue reading…

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  HP lays off 275 employees from webOS division

  By Joshua Topolsky on February 28, 2012 06:17 pm + 56 comments

  We've just received word that HP has laid off more than 270 employees from its webOS division as it Continue reading…

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  VLC 2.0 available now, includes faster decoding and experimental Blu-ray support

  By Dante D'Orazio on February 19, 2012 04:12 am + 79 comments

  After beginning as an academic project back in 1996, VLC hit version 1.0 in 2009 and today it has Continue reading…

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  Open webOS delivers additional code, new Isis browser, and governance model

  By Chris Ziegler on February 14, 2012 09:19 am + 20 comments

  The webOS team inside HP had said that it planned to deliver more source code for Open webOS to the Continue reading…