Open source: ten years old and growing

Posted on February 10th, 2008 at 1:15 am in iTWire by iTWire Staff

Ten years ago, Bruce Perens made what would be a move with huge repercussions, when he published what he called the Open Source Definition. That definition has helped hundreds of…

You can re-name the GLAST space telescope for NASA

Posted on February 10th, 2008 at 12:05 am in iTWire by iTWire Staff

NASA is asking for suggestions from the peoples of Earth on a new name for its Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope.

NASA astronauts inspecting Atlantis for damage

Posted on February 9th, 2008 at 1:04 am in iTWire by iTWire Staff

When Atlantis lifted off on Thursday, February 7, 2008, three pieces of debris were seen falling off of the external tank. Today, Friday, flight day two, the STS-122 astronauts are…

Expedition to track down extreme living creatures

Posted on February 9th, 2008 at 12:02 am in iTWire by iTWire Staff

Antarctica is filled with tiny organisms that love conditions too extreme for most other living thing. And a team of international scientists is looking for more of them at Lake…

Review: Mass Effect – Who would have thought, Conversation > Guns?

Posted on February 8th, 2008 at 10:12 pm in iTWire by iTWire Staff

The latest Role Play Game from Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and Jade Empire creators BioWare have divided critics and players alike with their latest opus for the…

Femtocell frenzy in Barcelona

Posted on February 8th, 2008 at 3:05 pm in iTWire by iTWire Staff

The CEO of femtocell maker Ubiquisys said last week that The femtocell market is moving at an astonishing speed. Judging by the number of announcements pouring out ahead…

Firefox update addresses multiple flaws

Posted on February 8th, 2008 at 2:00 pm in iTWire by iTWire Staff

As expected, Firefox 2.0.0.12 has been released to fix the directory traversal flaw discovered last month (content/view/16394/53/).

Spreading FUD on broadband regulation

Posted on February 8th, 2008 at 12:54 pm in iTWire by iTWire Staff

In the doublespeak of telecommunications politics no compelling case to regulate ADSL means it might be imminent and it is unlikely there is a need to regulate…

Google, IBM, Microsoft, VeriSign, Yahoo! join OpenID board

Posted on February 8th, 2008 at 11:20 am in iTWire by iTWire Staff

Google, IBM, Microsoft, VeriSign, and Yahoo! have joined the board of the OpenID Foundation, the organisation set up to facilitate access to multiple online services with a single username and…

Google provides self-service collaboration

Posted on February 8th, 2008 at 10:49 am in iTWire by iTWire Staff

Google has put a new spin on ad hoc collaboration with Google Apps Team Edition.

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