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Biomedical informatics researchers at IBM and the Mayo Clinic have launched a new open source consortium focused on natural language processing (NLP), in an effort to help doctors share diagnosis and treatment information.

Intel on Thursday plans to turn over the reins of its Moblin Linux-based platform project to the Linux Foundation, putting the work in neutral territory in the hopes of attracting more community support for it.

It looks like an old friend of mine, Sun Microsystems, may be going the way of the dinosaur. Sort of, anyway. Or maybe just transformed. We all have to wait and see.

GPS navigation device vendor TomTom has agreed to pay Microsoft to settle patent-infringement cases the companies filed against each other in the last five weeks, but Microsoft will not pay fees to TomTom.

The much-discussed quot;Open Cloud Manifesto,quot; signed by dozens of vendors in support of cloud-computing interoperability, was officially released on Monday following several days of discussion in the tech media and the blogosphere last week.

The CTO of JBoss, Sacha Labourey, will be leaving the company Monday.

Open source software companies are missing out on a relatively inexpensive way to fight concerns about patent liability, according to an attorney who spoke at an open source conference in San Francisco this week.

In a speech on Wednesday, the CEO of Sun Microsystems ignored the rumors that#160;the company may be sold to IBM and focused instead on the business opportunities presented by cloud computing and open-source software.

Novell unveiled Suse Linux Enterprise 11 on Tuesday, with features and capabilities that reflect the company#39;s controversial multiyear agreement with Microsoft.

The world of low-rent key-value storage silos is exploding. Here's a list of some of the more prominent new projects:

Open source business intelligence application Pentaho is joining the roster of applications available via Amazon.com#39;s EC2 Web hosting service.br clear=both style=clear: both;/ br clear=both style=clear: both;/ a href=http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=af437febea461dc07aab8c743c071111p=1img alt= style=border: 0; border=0 src=http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=af437febea461dc07aab8c743c071111p=1//a

OpenLogic is revamping its commercial support offerings for open source projects with a new three-tier system that will be available starting next week.br clear=both style=clear: both;/ br clear=both style=clear: both;/ a href=http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=0e8d03075693dd66e34165b8c650c1dap=1img alt= style=border: 0; border=0 src=http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=0e8d03075693dd66e34165b8c650c1dap=1//a

If IBM swings a deal for Sun, it won#39;t hinge on open source interests or software, where the two companies have enough overlap to negate any strategic value and make a multi-billion-dollar price tag hard to justify, according to observers.br clear=both style=clear: both;/ br clear=both style=clear: both;/ a href=http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=0b57c3fc167ca38ceba9ffdcc5f7d105p=1img alt= style=border: 0; border=0 src=http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=0b57c3fc167ca38ceba9ffdcc5f7d105p=1//a

MySpace will enhance its data portability system on Wednesday with new features for both members and application developers, the latest move by a social-networking company to extend the ways in which its data can be used outside its own service.br clear=both style=clear: both;/ br clear=both style=clear: both;/ a href=http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=a85ba5e9e2557d56e1adca71f7cbfcafp=1img alt= style=border: 0; border=0 src=http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=a85ba5e9e2557d56e1adca71f7cbfcafp=1//a

A startup called Cloudera on Monday publicly released its distribution of the open-source Hadoop distributed computing framework, hoping to sell enterprise users on the system employed by Google, Yahoo, and others to process large data sets.br clear=both style=clear: both;/ br clear=both style=clear: both;/ a href=http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=71afb0479f20418fa94ac9cb879078ecp=1img alt= style=border: 0; border=0 src=http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=71afb0479f20418fa94ac9cb879078ecp=1//a

IBM plans more componentizing of its WebSphere Java application server as well as additional dynamic language support, a company executive said on Thursday.br clear=both style=clear: both;/ br clear=both style=clear: both;/ a href=http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=342d863f8d007157f0d353b2723dc14dp=1img alt= style=border: 0; border=0 src=http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=342d863f8d007157f0d353b2723dc14dp=1//a

Mozilla announced it will dump Version 3.1 as the name of the next edition of Firefox and instead call it Version 3.5.br clear=both style=clear: both;/ br clear=both style=clear: both;/ a href=http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=18db4fc1ea2fbba93b47d8dc507a5f8ep=1img alt= style=border: 0; border=0 src=http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=18db4fc1ea2fbba93b47d8dc507a5f8ep=1//a

Open source routing vendor Vyatta is adding SSL VPN, intrusion prevention, Web caching, URL filtering, and other features in Vyatta Community Edition 5 (VC5), the latest version of its software, set to be released Monday.br clear=both style=clear: both;/ br clear=both style=clear: both;/ a href=http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=7d8d8f5460e8a3b6bbbec01af5812ca2p=1img alt= style=border: 0; border=0 src=http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=7d8d8f5460e8a3b6bbbec01af5812ca2p=1//a

Last week, President Barack Obama made good on his promise to appoint a national tech leader for the United States. As the country's first-ever CIO, Vivek Kundra faces significant challenges modernizing the nation's IT infrastructure and will be charged to do so at a time when self-interests and a lack of industry oversight threaten not only our freedoms and privacy but also the long-term innovation potential of IT.br clear=both style=clear: both;/ br clear=both style=clear: both;/ a href=http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=7d6fdcd88179178e119e03a7c4ad4a43p=1img alt= style=border: 0; border=0 src=http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=7d6fdcd88179178e119e03a7c4ad4a43p=1//a

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