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Once again, Google has bought something only to open source it.
This time it’s ReMail, first acquired, then put on Google Code as open source under the Apache 2.0 license.

The low-hanging fruit in the renewable energy business still lies with efficiency.

Institutional stock holder/Hedge Fund Elliot Associates wants to buy Novell and take it private. Sean Michael Kerner thinks this is a good idea, and a good deal for Novell.

Mozilla's high-performance TraceMonkey JavaScript engine, which was first introduced in 2008, has lost a lot of its luster as competing browser vendors have stepped up their game to deliver superior performance. Firefox now lags behind Safari, Chrome, and Opera in common JavaScript benchmarks.

Google’s Android code will assume its rightful place in the Linux kernel — in good time, the company’s top open source guru says.
The Android code was stripped out of the last kernel release, version 2.6.33, after Google reportedly failed to provide necessary changes and subsystem code required by kernel.org.

In all the talk about New York financier Paul Singer’s plan to go all Gordon Gecko on Novell, one word has not been mentioned nearly enough.
Microsoft.
Microsoft needs a viable Novell, and Novell’s Linux business was on the verge of becoming viable when Singer’s Elliott Associates swooped in with an offer to break up the company, seize its cash, split off the old NetWare business

BuilDj is an experimental new build system for GNOME that uses a JSON project description format. If it gets adopted, GNOME might finally escape from autohell.

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IBM is teaming with researchers in academic institutions in Japan and India to explore an open, common user interface for mobile devices that will make them easier for aged or illiterate people around the world to use.