Blogs: Open Source

Spanish phone startup taking orders worldwide. Firefox OS reaches its latest milestone, as 'developer preview' phones are now on sale. Geeksphone has two models: a low-end and a mid-range smartphone, aimed at HTML5 app developers. They're temptingly inexpensive. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers dust off their credit cards.

Management was nervous about moving to WordPress, an open source content management system,to power Carlton University's website, but the proprietary CMS wasn't keeping up. Here's how manager of web services Danny Brown closed the deal.

In this visual tour, two enterprise Web site developers show off the Web sites they developed and what they were able to do with  Drupal.

Datawrapper's online service will let you create five types of charts that they'll host on their Amazon AWS account. Or you can install the open-source project code on a server of your own.

In the financial industry, software is largely considered a trade secret. Speed is everything in the trading environment - so how an application performs can make or break competitive advantage. But there is a delicate balance of giving back to the open source community while also maintaining competitive advantage and trade secrets. I encourage the financial industry to continue to find that balance, investing and supporting open source projects that can help the industry overall. Insider (free registration required).

WordPress is the Internet's most popular content management system -- which makes it a likely target to be hacked. When I realized my sites had been compromised, I identified the threat and hardened WordPress with these steps.

Mozilla Firefox 15 continues the open-source project's efforts to reduce rampant memory consumption. This time, the focus turns to add-ons; it prevents the extensions from leaking memory from 'zombie' DOM structure references. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers wonder if it'll now run in 640K.

Rumors say that Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) will announce what will inevitably be described as an iPhone 5 killer. Let's call it the Kindle Phone? In IT Blogwatch, bloggers live in interesting times.

Time to clean your specs' lenses in mock disbelief. The Google/Asus Nexus 7 is said to violate Nokia patents. And this might be just the first of several such accusations. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers appear tired of all the IP shenanigans.