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WayFinder is a navigation software that Vodafone Paid 31Million USD since two years “Given our decision to stop developing turn by turn location based services as part of our core business, it seemed an obvious choice to make the code we own open source,” Voda’s internet director Pieter Knook, who led the original acquisition says in the announcement. “We look forward to seeing its continued use in all sorts of different applications in the future.” The New Open Source Navigation Software WayFinder website is h3r3 Project is released under BSD License  and available on GitHub, Open Source WayFinder Source code could be h3r3 Vodafone was planning to use WayFinder for location aware marketing services

Adobe has announced that its partnering with Sourceforge to expand its open-source offerings and have more flexibility with the related programs. Basically, all of Adobe’s open-source and standards efforts will be hosted and managed on Sourceforge through the site’s new developer platform. Adobe is actually the first customer of the newly launched platform. Adobe has grouped all of its ‘openess’ programs, source code hosting, specifications and contributions to standards organizations, under the Open@Adobe banner. The new site is now live over at sourceforge.net/adobe .  List of Adobe Open Source Projects is h3r3 Reference URL is h3r3

USE OPEN SOURCE is UK government officials' answer to Prime Minister David Cameron's request for ideas to cut expenses, suggesting that the civil service stop buying Microsoft software in favour of free alternatives. Last month Cameron asked more than a half million UK government workers for cost-cutting suggestions to help trim Britain's looming fiscal deficit. Over 56,000 ideas were submitted and Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne published a sample of them on Friday 9 July. Details are h3r3