The move is part of the nonprofit industry consortium's main avowed mission to make the Linux operating system an attractive alternative to Microsoft Corp.'s Windows.

Debuting in 2001, LSB is a set of interface standards created by the Free Standards Group (FSG), a nonprofit Linux consortium, designed to improve compatibility between Linux distributions so a developer can write an appli...

To use the service, mobile phone users simply send the word "izishop" in a text massage to 06-70-70-60-500, and follow the instructions in the reply message (in Hungarian only). A Java application is installed on the phone, which in the future can be used for interactive shopping for products and services, for example, bus passes and train and concert tickets. It can already be used to pay the ...

Shares of Vonage Holdings Corp., the Internet phone company that lost a patent-infringement suit last month, dropped 10 percent on concern the company may be prohibited from signing up new customers.

The stock declined 34 cents Monday to close at $3.03 in New York Stock Exchange composite trading. Vonage said in a statement that a temporary stay on a judge's ban on new customers is the "...

Dobo is a multi-function software which for entertainment purpose developed by Tangram Innovation. Players may play games, talk, download ringtones, download ebooks, and send SMS by using this app for amusement. Tangram will publish this multi-function app firstly in China for free. Therefore, advertising will be the main revenue.

'Game advertising has a tremendous positive impact on the...

The new company will provide the market with solutions to create instant, downloadable, rich-media applications that will work on all Java-enabled mobile phones. The applications will benefit from the Bando Player for Mobile (BPM)� technology. Initially a solution for Digital TV platforms, Bando Player� has already been successfully deployed on more than 10 million set-top-boxes worldwide. In t...

WASHINGTON -- A worldwide scientific effort to catalog every living species has topped the 1 million milestone.

Six years into the program the total has reached 1,009,000, researchers report. They hope to complete the listing by 2011, reaching an expected total of about 1.75 million species.

Thomas M. Orrell, a biologist at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, said...

AIS said it saved "millions of dollars" with the new system, "drastically" reducing both hardware and software costs, and enjoyed "great flexibility" in tweaking its own solution and avoiding vendor lock-in.

In Thailand, the prepaid service market serves the vast majority of cellphone users. However, it has challenged operators such as AIS, which have had to integrate next-generation tech...

Nanosolar, funded by a bunch of firms including Benchmark Capital and the hedge fund SAC Capital, is going head-to-head with Miasole, which is backed by, among others, Kleiner Perkins (Doerr's firm).

These two startups may well be the Yahoo and Excite@Home of solar. Investment bankers certainly know an opportunity when they see it. "Our view is it's the next technology space for the nex...

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The Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne issued grants totaling more than $1.1 million during its first quarter this year.

•Community Harvest Food Bank of Northeast Indiana Inc.: $50,000 for the Farm Wagon Program, a mobile pantry that provides fresh produce and perishable...