Sam Ramji, the director of Microsoft’s open-source software lab, announced at the EclipseCon conference in Santa Clara, Calif., on Wednesday that the lab will work with Eclipse .

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Sam Ramji

Microsoft will begin collaborating with the Eclipse Foundation to improve native Windows application development on Java.

The interoperability work from the open-source lab continues to rise in [...]

In an unusually broad exercise of power by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), patent enforcement company Negotiated Data Solutions (N-Data) has been ordered to stop allegedly anticompetitive enforcement of its patents covering the communications technology….
Sanity has come home to the United States, if only briefly.
The US patent system is a morass of ill-begotten gains [...]

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It’s Friday and that means I’m going to take a look at beautiful tech! This week, I take a look at the Asus Eee PC 1000H.

Draw on your maps with doodles and more using Quikmaps.

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To answer that call Quikmaps, a third party tool that plugs into the same Google Maps data, is a far simpler solution letting you simply doodle on the map. In some cases this can be far more useful than Google’s straight line tool [...]

If you’re a CIO trying to make do with crotchety old proprietary software, you really need to wake up and smell the open source. Lower costs, improved flexibility, and increasingly, better performance. That’s the promise of open source.
Nic Bellenberg, IT director for publisher Hachette Filipacchi UK, declared open source an “incredibly logical choice” and then [...]

MSI told Crave that it hopes to have an update next week about when it might start shipping the thing, but Engadget reports that those with an MSI Wind on preorder received word from MSI that it expects the first shipment to arrive the week of July 7. And that it will overnight the Wind [...]

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AUSTIN, Texas–I just rolled off a JetBlue flight where half the passengers were typing on MacBooks and talking about last night’s episode of Lost and the other half were wearing worn-out band T-shirts and combat boots. Incoming text messages from Twitter are making my cell phone buzz off the hook. I have this [...]

• On the Preferences tab, click E-mail Options, and then click Advanced E-mail Options.

• Under the Tools menu, click Options.

Still, that’s some pretty big consequences for a feature that saves a few seconds’ time. Sure, those seconds add up over time. But I imagine the lawyer in question would give any amount of time to have [...]

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Sun is shifting the license that governs OpenOffice from the Lesser General Public License (LGPL) version 2 to LGPLv3 in an effort to give the open-source office suite greater patent protection. I’m not sure it’s going to work:
Until Microsoft and the ever-waiting horde of patent trolls start contributing to OpenOffice, it’s unclear how users of [...]

I want the Trapster app. Not only is this the most useful of the apps, I believe, it’s also the one that leverages the Dash’s two-way capability the best: You can add to the Trapster database when you drive through a speed trap yourself. There may even be a button that says, “Yo, I am [...]