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 vulnerabilities found with cards used today.
NLnet Foundation will give €150,000 (US$234,000) to Radboud University in Nijmegen, Netherlands, for the project, which will run through 2010, said Valer Mischenko, the foundation’s [...]

Eclipse readies Ganymede release

OSGi, SOA, JavaScript improvements top list of enhancements in 23 projects
The Eclipse Foundation next week is set to offer its annual simultaneous release of open-source project updates, this time called the Ganymede Release and featuring improvements in the core OSGI-based component model and SOA tools.
All told, 23 projects are being upgraded in the Ganymede [...]

Open BI Pentaho “Business intelligence” software goes GPL

Pentaho Corp. has released its Linux-compatible, open source business intelligence (BI) software under a GNU General Public License Version 2 (GPLv2) license. The license applies to the version 2 alpha release of the Pentaho BI Platform, as well as future versions, says the company.

The Pentaho BI Platform is the foundational infrastructure that underlies Pentaho’s Open [...]

Google could pick Git to manage Android code

Releasing 8.6 million lines of source code and expecting open-source programmers to join Google in its development is a technological challenge. But when Google does make its Android mobile phone software an open-source project later this year, it looks likely it will take a page from the Linux playbook and use a tool called Git [...]

AOL To Unveil Open Voice APIs

AOL plans to roll out open voice APIs today for developers and device makers to integrate the company’s AIM Call Out service into the hardware and software used to make phone calls over the Internet

Free Open Source Software Is Costing Vendors $60 Billion: Standish Group

“Open Source software is raising havoc throughout the software market. It is the ultimate in disruptive technology, and while to it is only 6% of estimated trillion dollars IT budgeted annually, it represents a real loss of $60 billion in annual revenues to software companies,” said Jim Johnson, Chairman, The Standish Group International,