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Air traffic control radar display published as open source

Open Source is going everywhere, and everything being opened. Albatross is the name of Open Source software available to display radar data for air traffic controllers. The tool is meant to provide the controller with precise visualization of airspace. The software can receive surveillance data (Eurocontrol's Asterix format) and display aircraft tracks on maps. The application can also zoom in and pan, offers range and bearing of objects. As Skysoft announced in March, the radar display application is the first of several tools that the Swiss specialist will publish as open source. In its statement it explains that it aims for wider adoption of such applications. According to the company, its open source development community is very active. More than 150 members have joined since the project was announced, with about half of them becoming involved in the development of the radar display application. Application and Reference news are hosted h3r3 Another link on Airport Technology...

Google Wave Next Generation Collaboration Suite

I see Google Wave not only a next generation collaboration suite, but it redefines our usage to Internet/Messaging/Blogging/Photography ..... Google Wave is beyond talk , I prefer that you watch this hour + video deomnstration I do not deny it is technological breakthrough but in meanwhile it fosters Google online domination on our souls/data/friends/photos I see Google is the next Microsoft same monopoly technique but as we all know Google guys are smarter and the era is different so, it is all Open Sourced in a way or another and APIs will be available to Community. enough talk and watch the Video

Nokia Released Braille Reader Application

The Video tells it all, it is a free application released by Nokia to help Visually impaired/blind to read SMSs by Braille

Facebook to offer Hosting Mirrors for Open Source Projects

Facebook to offer a mirror for many open source application. may be it is relevant to bold that FaceBook is another big user of many Open Source project like many other giants (Google, Yahoo,.....). the Mirror that Facebook offers for Open Source application hosts the following: 1) Apache 2) Centos 3) cpan 4) Fedora 5) KDE 6) Kernel 7) Mozdev.org 8) Mysql 9) Openssl 10) Opera 11) putty 12) proftpd link of FaceBook Mirror site could be found h3r3

How to remote control your PC from Twitter

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This PC will make your PC twitterable as I call it , in other words how you may command your PC remotely from any place on the solar system through Twitter Account. This is through an Open Source (for sure) application called Tweet MyPC, which could be found h3r3 TweetMyPC works by listening to a Twitter account for updates. I recommend that you create a new Twitter account for this purpose and also keep the updates on this account as private so that no one else is able to read the commands being issued. this could be achieved by click on Settings links and checking "Protect my tweets" Launch TweetMyPC and setup the application by entering details of that Twitter account we just created To send a command to your PC, login to the Twitter account that TweetMyPC is listening to and write the command as a status update. for Example : Free Memory responses comes as an update to the same Twitter account "Free Physical Memory X MB" List of Command that TweetMyPC will under...