Google inc., the enterprise behind the well-known search robot, has selected the 3 winners of their latest Developer Challenge. The competition was called “the Android Developer Challenge”. The participants had to make a handy application for Google’s open source software program “Android” for mobile phones. The winner was the program “sweetdreams”. The program manages the [...]
Archive for December, 2009
Sweetdreams is worth 150.000 $
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Android, Google, Karel Supré, mobile application, open source software on December 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Belgian open source software is taking over
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Belgian, Drupal, open source software, the White House on December 14, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Drupal-founder, Dries Buyaert has announced that the new website of the White House will run on Drupal. Drupal is a Belgian open source software program designed for web content management. Popular and important websites as www.navo.com, www.nasa.com and the personal websites of Hillary Clinton and Jennifer Lopez are already running on it. The fact that [...]
Open source software, a new threat to human workforces
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged industrial automation, Karel Supré, open software codes, robots, The Tokyo International Robot Exhibition on December 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Since years The Tokyo International Robot Exhibition has been a showcase for Japan’s craziest robots. With the recession of 2009 this exhibition received a more serious tone. This edition the practical and commercial side of robots stood in the spotlights. The exhibition of 2009 showed among others that the list of human jobs that robots [...]
Microsoft wants to rule Facebook
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Facebook, Microsoft, open source software, Silverlight, Wouter Snoeck on December 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Microsoft, the manufacturer of the operating system Windows, has developed a new web-based program “Silverlight”, which is comparable to the Adobe Flash Player. A lot of applications in Facebook work with the more famous Flash Player of Adobe (which is also used by Youtube to show all the videos on the net), a competitor of Microsoft. Now, there is a new “Software development kit” [...]
