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NYSE Technologies, the commercial tech arm of the stock exchange, has turned its middleware API over to Open Source. It said the move would streamline the implementation of new trading technology solutions by provididing a simple, consistent API. The software which has been handed over to The LInux Foundation is the NYSE Technologies’ Middleware Agnostic Messaging API, known lovingly as MAMA. Now it will be known as OpenMAMA and governed by a steering committee of such finance industry luminaries as J.P. Morgan, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, EMC, Exegy and Fixnetix among others. “NYSE Technologies’ vision has always been to create a new breed of capital markets community that benefits from our extensive global network and utilizes the best, most innovative technologies from a range of service providers, not just ourselves,” said Stanley Young, CEO, NYSE Technologies.   “Launching OpenMAMA through the Linux Foundation is another step toward achieving that goal...

Governments across the globe are going open source, other than those who are either close to Microsoft or who have been bought by them. Emerging economies such as India and Brazil know the value of open source It  boosts local economy instead of filling the pockets of multi-national companies who have little or no interest in the development of the region. The government of India , despite desperate measures from companies like Microsoft has always been pro-free software or open source . The government has prepared a draft for the "Policy on Device Drivers for Procurement of Hardware for e-Governance". The goal of the policy is to to provide citizens with e-Governance services, which are technology-neutral, cost effective, interoperable and vendor-neutral. The draft [PDF] exposes an inherent problem in offering such services in the manner mentioned above, "... while implementing such systems, there is a possibility of non-availability of Device Drivers...

I wrote before on Open Source hardware before named Arduino Link is h3r3 There is another Open Source hardware project called Dangerous Prototypes Link is h3r3 This Project created an Open source hardware every month

Canidan Privacy Expert Recommends anonymizing data, So I recommend www.urvpn.com to anonymize your internet traffic Link to urvpn.com is h3r3 Link to the Reference Link on the importance of anonymizing Data is h3r3 Quoted: Canadian privacy experts have issued a new report today that strongly backs the practice of de-identification as a key element in the protection of personal information. The joint paper from Ontario's Information and Privacy Commissioner, Dr. Ann Cavoukian, and Dr. Khaled El Emam, the Canada Research Chair in Electronic Health Information at the University of Ottawa and the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, comes as some privacy policy makers increasingly question the value of de-identification.

Oracle Donates Open Office code to Apache foundation to be under Apache License The Document Foundation would welcome the reuniting of the OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice projects into a single community of equals in the wake of the departure of Oracle," TDF said in a statement . "The step Oracle has taken today was no doubt taken in good faith, but does not appear to directly achieve this goal. Ref. URL: http://www.zdnet.co.uk/blogs/communication-breakdown-10000030/oracle-donates-openofficeorg-to-apache-foundation-10022593/?tag=mncol;txt

Google published about a new competition for Android Programmers, if you create a killer application for Android you will be rewarded 25KUSD. Details and link are below Competition Overview Welcome to the Android Developer Challenge, Sub Saharan Africa! You can participate by developing a killer application built on Android. The sections below provide information about the types of applications you can enter, as well as the contest information and dates. Developers submit their apps to one of three specially-designated ADC categories beginning June 1st at 12 AM GMT. An application may only be submitted to a single category. Categories Entertainment / Media / Games Social Networking / Communication Productivity / Tools / Local / Geo To determine the winner, there is a two round submission process. All apps that want to be considered for the competition, must be submit by July 1st, 2011. There are three competition regions — West & Central Africa, East Africa and Sout...

This Post shows how to you can downgrade your Android Phone Operating System and I will use Acer BeTouch E130 as my show case 1) You need to have the old Android: This is easily done through searching google , or If if you already have it since earlier download 2) Follow the regular Setup procedure for your phone manufacture install you will find the application extracted and there is a file ends/with extension "nb0" This is the ROM Image File, Once you have it you can follow the below steps , if not please manage to get the desired ROM Image of your desired Android 3) Download RUT  (Rom Update Tool) from http://wiki.geeksphone.com/en/index.php?title=Update_the_ROM_using_RUT Link is h3r3 4) Please start the RUT application (Do not forget to reboot after installing RUT to make sure you have the required USB Driver (usually you can skip the reboot , if you managed to have successful connections over USB to your Android Mobile Phone , in this Example it is Acer BeTo...