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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

The Ubuntu Manual Project just released "Getting Started with Ubuntu 10.04" it is free to download Ubuntu Linux Tutorial/book/manual Site could be found h3r3 .

The Free Technology Academy does not only continue after the initial period supported by the EC's Lifelong Learning Programme, we also expand the number of courses available! We hope to keep growing and are working towards a complete International Masters Programme. In this newsletter the tentative programme for 2011, our discount policies, news on the fascinating lecture by Jon 'maddog' Hall and an introduction to our future plans. == 1. FTA Programme 2011 == The Free Technology Academy offers three rounds of courses in 2011. Registrations for these courses are now open! The programme is tentative and subject to changes. Should a module be cancelled by the FTA, tuition fees will of course be fully refunded. In the following list you will find all the courses available: * The Concepts of Free Software & Open Standards * GNU/Linux Basic * GNU/Linux Advanced * Free Software Utilities * Network Technologies * Web Applications * Software Development * Implementation of ...

Richard Stallman has his view on SaaS (Software as a Service) and sometimes marketed as Cloud Computing. he sees SaaS is worse than proprietary software Richard wrote an essay on these points h3r3 Video of Richard Stallman could be found b3low

The Government of Malta has issued a new directive instructing all of its agencies to give preference to the use of open source software (OSS) throughout government. According to the directive, Malta will adopt free software using the definition set by the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and it says that, "Where it is not possible to make use of OSS in the implementation of solutions, appropriate evidence shall be made available." Only open source software that is available in English and at least one other European language will be considered. The directive says that if translation into Maltese is required then the Government of Malta Open Source End User Group (Moseug) should be consulted. Additionally, preference should be given to software available on the Open Source Observatory and Repository (OSOR) at OSOR.eu. The Maltese Government hopes to reduce costs by encouraging its departments use of open source and says that it also hopes to share more applica...