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OpenBSD founder makes funding plea
News OpenBSD developers have admitted that the organisation is running at a loss and want to increase annual income to continue funding the development of the project's open source operating system. OpenSSH, a secure network connectivity tool project...
[March 23, 2006, 10:10]
Tiga adds teeth to UK games industry
News TIGA's founders hope to make it easier for such companies -- who often only employ a handful of people -- to secure funding from investors, and also plan to lobby the government for tax concessions. According to Jez San, chief executive officer of...
[March 14, 2001, 7:32]
Is open source a bubble ready to burst?
News Among this year's top investment recipients were XenSource, which landed m, and SugarCRM, which got third-round funding of $18.7m last month. JBoss, said he recently passed on funding a business-intelligence start-up.
[November 7, 2005, 14:30]
DTI funds UK technology development
News Half of the funding will be provided by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, with the remainder of funding coming from the computer industry.
[January 21, 2002, 13:43]
PDA Home Buying Guide Standard
Downloads Major sections include: finding funding, building your team of professionals, searching for a house, inspecting houses, negotiating price and terms, the closing and reference material for further study.
[September 21, 2002, 3:46]
Good updates handheld software
News Good Technology will announce new versions of its handheld software, additional customers and another round of funding as the start-up continues to target large businesses. The company also announced an additional $14m in funding by strategic...
[October 7, 2002, 13:51]
Adobe puts its muscle behind Apollo
News Adobe Systems plans to spend $100m (£50m) in venture funding to promote its software development platforms, with a particular focus on Apollo, which allows people to run web applications without a browser.
[October 26, 2006, 11:30]
LinkedIn lays off tenth of workforce
News The layoffs follow LinkedIn's announcement last month that it had raised an additional $22.7m (£14.2m) in funding from Goldman Sachs, SAP, McGraw-Hill and long-time investor Bessemer Venture Partners.
[November 6, 2008, 10:15]
Wozniak to give Danger advice
News Softbank, a previous investor that heavily contributed to Danger's $35m fourth round of funding last month, will be taking a seat at the table once again. Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has resigned from Danger's board of directors but will join...
[March 11, 2003, 9:49]
Cooperative open source testbed opens doors
News Among those providing $24m funding over two years for the Open Source Development Lab are Hewlett-Packard, Intel, IBM, Computer Associates, NEC, Hitachi, Mitsubishi, Dell and SGI. Some are volunteers and some are paid for their efforts, but the...
[January 24, 2001, 9:26]
OpenSolaris comes to the mainframe
News The prototype, downloadable from the OpenSolaris website, is the result of work carried out by Sine Nomine Associates (SNA), with Sun's technical assistance and equipment, and funding from IBM. The availability of the prototype source code means...
[November 3, 2008, 16:32]
Sony to license WildTangent technology
News In April, WildTangent received $34m in its third round of funding from investors that included Sony Pictures Digital Entertainment, Accenture Technology Ventures, ATI, Millennium Technology Ventures, Washington Mutual and IDG.
[August 14, 2001, 8:30]
The Year Ahead: Will Linux survive the dot-com crash?
News As a result of those IPOs, anything with "Linux" in its name could soon find large amounts of funding, and scores of Linux companies sprang up out of the woodwork. Even more worryingly, many firms that had devoted themselves to open source...
[January 2, 2002, 6:31]
Google 'guarantees' Android compatibility
News The top 10 applications in each phase will win $275,000 (£133,000) in funding, with the next 10 earning $100,000 (£48,000) each. There will be two phases of the Android Developer Challenge, each of which will involve a total of $5m (£2.4m) in prizes.
[November 13, 2007, 7:02]
Fixing the bug fixers
Leader Perceiving that an increasing amount of the nation's critical national infrastructure is based on open source, the US Department of Homeland Security announced in January 2006 that it would donate $1.24m in funding to researchers from Stanford...
[March 28, 2007, 18:13]
Famed open-source compiler gets a face lift
News Among them is an improved ability to generate instructions for Intel's mainstream chips--work Intel has been funding for years. Indeed, Intel's first funding of Cygnus was to create GCC support for Intel's now-defunct i960 communications processor.
[June 20, 2001, 9:32]
Mozilla looks to reward contributors
News So it's great that the Mozilla Foundation is considering funding particular individuals," said Ghosh in an email. Such funding can be tricky unless it is based on objective criteria - luckily there are several metrics that are easily and publicly...
[March 23, 2006, 8:45]
Microsoft funds secure code-writing course
News In the second of a string of collaborations between Microsoft and universities in the UK, the University of Leeds has received partial funding to teach would-be developers to write secure code. ZDNet UK's Developer News Section delivers the latest...
[March 24, 2003, 13:55]
UnitedLinux prepares first beta
News While the companies are pooling developers and research funding, each will keep revenue from the products and services it sells. The group also revealed details of how it will recruit new operating system and developer partners.
[August 14, 2002, 13:49]
Corel closes the curtain on open source
News In August 2001 it sold Corel Linux to an investment consortium called Linux Global Partners, which formed Xandros with a core team of Corel developers and $10m (about £7m) of start-up funding. Open-source advocates argue that "shared source" offers...
[February 18, 2002, 14:37]
