Stories about: Ericsson

The market can expect to see by 2008 the fruits of a recently-formed initiative to develop the first globally available Linux-based mobile device platform based on industry-developed standards.

GlassFish is the first project to spring from Sun Microsystem's decision to open source its Java programming code and Ken Drachnik, one of its chief evangelists, points to the project as a lesson in how open source spurs innovation.

The most significant development in the next major release of MySQL AB's open-source database, MySQL 6.0, will be the inclusion of the vendor's homegrown Falcon storage engine, according to company CEO Marten Mickos.

Greenpeace has published its latest "green ranking" of the world's biggest electronics companies and the results might surprise you.

On Saturday, March 10, Swedish police ruined the 10th anniversary celebration of a local chapter of Hells Angels. Just as the party got going, 40 heavily armed police officers stormed in, looking for drugs. The cops got more than they bargained for: Inside the motorcycle gang's headquarters they found an antitank cannon, powerful enough to wreck an armored money truck.

Measures to reduce the millions of tons of electronic waste generated each year by manufactures of computers, mobile phones and other consumer electronic products will be the focus of a United Nations-sponsored conference in the capital of Kenya.

Sun Microsystems has released NetBeans 5.5, the latest version of the company's open-source Java IDE (integrated development environment), aiming to beef up the software's productivity tools and improve its look-and-feel.

Skype will help market an application that will put its contact list and VOIP (voice over Internet protocol) and instant messaging services on high-end mobile phones.

The never-ending spate of law-suits between companies like Research In Motion (RIM) and Visto could soon be over, thanks to a mobile email standard which might support an open-source alternative.

Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) is to launch its online patent commons reference library. The group hopes it will give users more confidence about using open-source software by allaying some concerns about the possibility of patent litigation. The library which will consist of five interlinked databases forms the basis of the Patents Commons Project, the Linux development consortium first announced back in August.

Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) will take the next crucial step in a four-year-long battle over software patents within the European Union (E.U.) on Wednesday, when they hold a decisive vote on a proposed E.U. law, or directive, on computer-implemented inventions (CII). The proposal has been dubbed the "software patent directive" by its opponents.