Articles about open source

It's interesting to see how tablets have risen so fast in appeal in just a few months, months in which Apple has sold over two million iPads. This is why it's not a miracle that some hardware manufacturers have started offering open source kits for DIY (Do It Yourself) touch tablets. One of them is produced by Liquidware, who call themselves Open Source Electronics guys. The kit is calle Beagle Embedded Starter Kit and costs around 400$, offering all you need to set up your own tablet in a few m...

As you might probably already know Symbian OS went fully open source a few days ago which means everyone can download the source code and modify it. As in Android's case this move proved successful, and the CEO of Symbian Foundation told the press he sees Symbian OS powering future tablet devices and even netbooks as many manufacturers showed interest in putting ARM architecture at work together with the already proven Symbian OS that has powered in 10 years since it launched more than 300 milli...