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Open Source Spotlight: iSpy Connect

It's hard to imagine that a Texas police agency, Chinese airport security and thousands of small business owners share much in common. But they do share at least one thing: An interest in iSpy Connect, a free, feature-rich open source video surveillance application that's compatible with standard consumer webcams and IP cameras.

By Rohan Pearce | 04 May, 2012 11:29

Tags: video software, open source, multimedia software, multimedia

Open source developer Q&A: Rockbox's Björn Stenberg

Techworld Australia recently caught up with Björn Stenberg of Rockbox to discuss the open source project, which is designed to replace the firmware shipped on MP3 players and portable media players.

By Rohan Pearce | 30 January, 2012 10:30

Tags: mp3 players, music, open source, operating system, operating systems

Open source Q&A: The developers of Rockbox, open source firmware for MP3 players

Rockbox is an open source project replacement for the firmware shipped on MP3 players and portable media players.

By Rohan Pearce | 30 January, 2012 10:23

Tags: mp3 players, music, open source, operating system, operating systems

Rockbox developer interview: Open source firmware for MP3 players

Techworld Australia recently caught up with some of the developers of Rockbox to discuss the open source project, which is designed to replace the firmware shipped on MP3 players and portable media players.

By Rohan Pearce | 30 January, 2012 10:33

Tags: mp3 players, music, open source, operating system, operating systems

Ubuntu Studio says no to Unity, adopts Xfce

In another sign Canonical’s Unity desktop environment is not resonating well with the wider Ubuntu community, multimedia-centric Ubuntu derivative, Ubuntu Studio, will move from the GNOME to the Xfce desktop for its next release.

By Rodney Gedda | 16 May, 2011 11:29

Tags: gnome, Linux, multimedia, open source, ubuntu, Ubuntu Studio, unity, Xfce

Salesforce.com buys Dimdim

Salesforce.com announced Thursday it has purchased Web conferencing software vendor Dimdim for US$31 million, and plans to use the company's technology to augment its Chatter enterprise collaboration platform.

By Chris Kanaracus | 10 January, 2011 14:41

Tags: cloud computing, collaboration, conferencing, customer relationship management, Dimdim, instant messaging, internet, open source, SaaS, salesforce.com

Open source frash brings Flash to iPad, Adobe goes Android

A new open source project dubbed frash will allow iPad users to experience Flash in the Web browser as Adobe begins demonstrating its own efforts to port Flash 10.1 to the newly released Android 2.2 "Froyo".

By Rodney Gedda | 07 July, 2010 10:32

Tags: Adobe, adobe flash, Android, Apple, Flash, froyo, iOS, iPad, iPhone, Motorola, Motorola Droid

Google's WebM draws praise, critiques

The news this week of Google's open-source release of the HD video codec VP8 plays into the ongoing debate over which video codec browsers can use to display high-definition video without a plug-in, such as Adobe Flash or Microsoft Silverlight.

By Joab Jackson | 21 May, 2010 03:57

Tags: codec, Google, video, VP8, WebM, Web video

Free Amarok music player extends olive branch to Palm Pre

Recent news that an Apple iTunes update has disabled support for Palm’s new Pre smartphone has spurred the open source Amarok music player to offer to work with the device for file synchronization.

By Rodney Gedda | 17 July, 2009 11:13

Tags: Amarok, Apple, digital music, iTunes, kde, music players, Palm Pre

Vendor squabbles cause W3C to scrap codec requirement

The latest rewrite of the Web's mother tongue won't recommend the use of specific audio and video encoding formats that could make it cheaper and easier for people to distribute multimedia content.

By Jeremy Kirk | 03 July, 2009 05:48

Tags: codec, H.264, html 5, Ogg Theora, Ogg Vorbis, W3C, Web video

Firefox 3.5 features new Javascript engine, built-in video

The next version of Firefox will include next-generation features Mozilla hopes will help the browser stand apart from competitors.

By Elizabeth Montalbano | 11 June, 2009 04:16

Tags: firefox, firefox 3.5, javascript, mozilla firefox, Ogg Theora

Boxee for Windows alpha coming June 23

The alpha test version of Boxee's online multimedia software for Windows PCs will be released to the public on June 23, Boxee founder Avner Ronen said Thursday.

By Stephen Lawson | 05 June, 2009 05:00

Tags: Boxee, digital tv, PVR, television

Apple is sued after pressuring open-source iTunes project

The operator of a technology discussion forum has sued Apple, claiming that the company used U.S. copyright law to curb legitimate discussion of its iTunes software.

By Robert McMillan | 28 April, 2009 05:09

Tags: Apple, digital music, dmca, EFF, iTunes, legal, opensource

Wikipedia video gets boost with $100,000 Mozilla grant

The proliferation of standards-based video sharing and collaboration is set to take off with a $US100,000 grant from the Mozilla Foundation to fund the development of the Ogg Theora video codec and server-side streaming software.

By Rodney Gedda | 23 January, 2009 17:07

Tags: annodex, linux.conf.au, mediawiki, mozilla, Ogg Theora, open source, videoediting, wikimedia, wikipedia

Linux takes a seat on Qantas’ new superjumbo

Linux will be a passenger in every seat on Qantas’ Airbus A380s aeroplanes. All of the airline’s superjumbos – the first of which will commence flying next week – will have their in-flight entertainment systems powered by the operating system.

By Howard Dahdah | 14 October, 2008 08:42

Tags: qantas

Firefox closer to supporting open-source video codec

Mozilla is edging closer to releasing a new version of Firefox that could increase the use of open-source video software.

Open source awards accepting nominations

Is open source software a part of your daily computing life? Now is your chance to sound off about it. Sourceforge.net, an online community that hosts open source projects, is accepting nominations for its annual Community Choice awards.

Moonlight release puts Silverlight on Linux

The first public release of Moonlight, which provides a Linux client implementation of Microsoft's Silverlight rich Internet application (RIA) technology, was made available this week.

Google puts open-source project back up

Google has reinstated an open-source project just days after pulling it in response to a copyright-related takedown notice.

Google takes down open-source project after DMCA complaint

Google has removed an open-source project that enables the proprietary CoreAVC high-definition video decoder to run in Linux following a complaint from the codec's developer -- but the project could soon return.