Android 2.2 (Froyo - Frozen Yogurt) from Google

via AnyGeo... This week at Google I/O 2010 the company announced details of Android 2.2, codenamed Froyo. According to the company, developers can download the Android 2.2 SDK and Android NDK, Revision 4 now from the Android developer site. Froyo will be made available to OEMs and the open source community in the coming weeks. Most notably, Android 2.2 offers new features for consumers, including portable hotspot functionality, support for Adobe Flash within the Android Browser, and improvements to Android Market. Not to be left out, there’s also new tools and options for developers. These include performance & speed enhancements; new enterprise capabilities; the addition of the V8 Javascript engine to the Android browser; and a rich new set of APIs and services.

“Every day, 100,000 new people start using Android-based handsets. There are now more than 180,000 active Android developers who have contributed over 50,000 apps to the Android Market. Froyo is another step toward making Android an even better platform for developers, enterprises and consumers.” Andy Rubin, VP, Engineering, Google.

See more on the Google Blog

Android 2.2 (Froyo - Frozen Yogurt) from Google

Google Announces Android 2.2

Android 2.2 offers valuable new features for consumers, including portable hotspot functionality, support for Adobe Flash within the Android Browser, and improvements to Android Market.
Android 2.2 also delivers powerful new tools and options for developers. These include performance & speed enhancements; new enterprise capabilities; the addition of the V8 Javascript engine to the Android browser; and a rich new set of APIs and services.
Also this morning, Google offered a preview of an upcoming web-based version of Android Market and an update to the native Music app, which will allow users to access their music from Android-based handsets. Developers can download the Android 2.2 SDK and Android NDK, Revision 4 now from the Android developer site. Froyo will be made available to OEMs and the open source community in the coming weeks. A video of the keynote will be available shortly at http://sites.pressatgoogle.com/io2010

Google Announces Android 2.2

Google I/O 2010 Celebrates the Web as the Platform of Choice

This year's I/O event is a recognition and celebration of the web's evolution into the software development platform of choice. It's also an opportunity for Google to share its work in moving the web forward and keeping it open. The web has become more powerful in more places -- from enterprise deployments to mobile handsets. Google's announcements today enable developers to take full advantage of the web platform:

An open, global platform means better performance and broader access for all applications

    * Chrome Web Store: Google is announcing the Chrome Web Store, an open marketplace for web apps that helps people find the best web applications across the internet and allows developers to reach new users.

    * WebM Project: Google joined a broad array of companies and web community members to announce WebM, an open web media format project. We have open-sourced VP8, a high-quality, web-optimized video codec, and are contributing to the project under a royalty-free license.
    * Wave open sign-ups: Google Wave is open to all users at wave.google.com, as a Google Labs product -- no invitation needed. Google Apps administrators will also have the option to add Wave as a Labs feature for their domains, helping groups of people communicate and work together more productively.
More information about Google I/O 2010 is available at http://code.google.com/events/io/.

Google I/O 2010 Celebrates the Web as the Platform of Choice

Via GoogeIO Adobe Delivers HTML5 Support in Dreamweaver CS5

Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced, at the Google I/O conference, a new HTML5 solution that is immediately available for Web designers and developers. The Adobe HTML5 Pack is an extension to Adobe Dreamweaver CS5, the latest version of the industry-leading HTML authoring tool for website design. This extension provides more creative options to Adobe Creative Suite 5 users – so they can more easily create, deliver and optimize compelling content consistently, across the widest array of screens, to maximize revenue streams and forward their businesses.
Availability of this HTML5 Pack extension is the direct result of positive customer feedback that began at Adobe MAX 2009 when the company first gave a sneak peek of the technology, and then again most recently following a post on the Adobe Design and Web blog, where additional HTML5 and CSS3 R&D investments were discussed. Underscoring its commitment to this emerging standard, Adobe has made its HTML5 Pack extension for Dreamweaver CS5 immediately available, as a free download, at http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/html5pack.html. 

Via GoogeIO Adobe Delivers HTML5 Support in Dreamweaver CS5

Joomla! 1.6 Launches

The Joomla! Project released the long awaited Joomla! 1.6 - Joomla is a free, award-winning PHP-based content management system that enables users to build websites and powerful online applications - it's been downloaded more than 16 million times. The latest release is designed to offer enhanced site control and a more polished user experience. Key Features in Joomla 1.6:

·    New Access Control System - Allows site administrators control over who can view and manage content.

·    Unlimited Depth Organizational Model - Gives site administrators and content creators user-defined category levels that allow for the creation of a category tree with as many or as few levels for organizing articles and other content as needed.

·    One-Click Extension Updates - Allows users to keep sites secure and controlled by simplifying the process of updating extensions.

·      Semantic XHTML Layouts - Provide a better baseline for content presentation.

Visit www.joomla.org and download Joomla 1.6 beta

Joomla! 1.6 Launches

Cloud.com Introduces Commercial and Open Source Infrastructure

Cloud.com, a pioneer in cloud infrastructure management software, today announced CloudStack™, a comprehensive open source software solution that accelerates the deployment, management and configuration of multi-tier and multi-tenant private and public cloud services. The integrated software solution for delivering infrastructure as a service (IaaS) comes in three distinct products: CloudStack Enterprise Edition, CloudStack Service Provider Edition and CloudStack Community Edition. Through the implementation of common cloud frameworks like the Amazon Web Services API, Citrix Cloud Center™ (C3) and VMware’s vCloud initiative, Cloud.com provides an open environment that interoperates with a user’s existing cloud initiatives. See http://www.cloud.com/products.

Some related books:

Cloud Application Architectures: Building Applications and Infrastructure in the Cloud (Theory in Practice (O'Reilly))
Cloud Computing Explained: Implementation Handbook for Enterprises

Cloud.com Introduces Commercial and Open Source Infrastructure

Rhomobile Announces Rhodes 2.0 for rapid, open, mobile app development

Cross-Platform Smartphone App Development Framework Features Bi-directional Audio and Video Streaming in HD, Faster Sync and is Now Free Under MIT License - Rhodes 2.0, available for free, provides developers with powerful enhancements including faster sync, and optimized native styling for all smartphones and new capabilities including advanced multimedia support and a metadata framework that supports applications with changing underlying schema. The Rhodes smartphone app framework reduces development time by up to five times for a single OS as developers can leverage their web development skills and code in HTML and Ruby instead of in Objective-C or other complex native device OS language.
The Rhodes framework is free under the MIT License. The Rhodes 2.0 public beta is available today at http://rhomobile.com/beta. The Rhodes 2.0 final will be available later this month. Tutorials and other documentation can be viewed at http://rhomobile.com/docs.

Rhomobile Announces Rhodes 2.0 for rapid, open, mobile app development

The Nation, America's leading political magazine, goes Open Source with Drupal

The Nation, one of America's leading political magazines and a growing source for news and opinion online, re-launched its website today with a new design and an innovative, open-source platform (Drupal publishing platform) that strengthens the magazine's unique business model. The redesign is the culmination of an 18-month effort to position the country's oldest weekly magazine as a thought leader online. The redesign features strategic product innovations like search-engine friendly "topic" pages, story-level twitter feeds and instantly-customizable homepage and section front designs. Web Site: http://www.thenation.com/

The Nation, America's leading political magazine, goes Open Source with Drupal

Karto Open Libraries 2.0

SRI International, an independent nonprofit research and development institute, has released version 2.0 of SRI's Karto(TM) Open Libraries. The product is available for download at https://code.ros.org/gf/project/karto/. SRI's Karto(TM) Open Libraries 2.0 has been released under the Lesser General Public License (LGPL). "Karto enables software developers of mobile robot solutions to integrate navigation and mapping intelligence into their designs," said Regis Vincent, Ph.D., program manager, SRI Artificial Intelligence Center. "This updated version includes significant new features, such as allowing developers to work directly with Karto's core technology by providing open-source access to its mapping library." SRI's Karto(TM) Open Libraries 2.0 will be followed by the release of the full Karto(TM) Software Development Kit (SDK) 2.0 expected in June 2010.

Karto Open Libraries 2.0

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS adds new tools

Via Bloomberg, details of the latest in Ubuntu... the server version has almost 100 open-source and proprietary application providers certifying their programs on Ubuntu Server Edition. That version will include Alfresco, Ingres, IBM, VMware, Yahoo and Zimbra. It also includes improved installation and management tools for Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC) and Amazon EC2.You can get Ubuntu at http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS adds new tools

Openbravo Takes Small and Mid-Sized Businesses to the Cloud with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

Openbravo is the leading developer of web-based open source Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions for small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs), while Canonical is the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, which is rapidly becoming a very popular server platform choice for businesses of all sizes across the globe.

Openbravo ERP 2.50 Professional Subscription for Ubuntu now provides support for the Amazon Cloud through Canonical's Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Amazon Machine Images (AMIs), delivering its web-based ERP in a form factor that is convenient and easy for SMBs to deploy and maintain. By combining the cost and scalability benefits of public cloud computing with the proven security, stability, and flexibility of Ubuntu, Openbravo and Canonical are bringing enterprise computing into the mainstream. Find out how to install Openbravo ERP Professional Subscription for Ubuntu by at: http://wiki.openbravo.com/wiki/ERP/2.50/Ubuntu_Installation

Openbravo Takes Small and Mid-Sized Businesses to the Cloud with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

Open Your World, Online Forum to Discuss Open Source Principles

Red Hat, Inc. the world's leading provider of open source solutions, sponsors "Open Your World," an online virtual forum highlighting the open source ideals of participation, collaboration, community, transparency and meritocracy as they are applied beyond the technology industry. "Open Your World" will be held on Thursday, May 27, 2010 and will be accessible via webcast. The forum is presented by opensource.com, a website launched by Red Hat in January 2010 as a place to explore and share what happens when the open source way is applied to the world at large. To register for this free event, please visit http://www.redhat.com/openyourworld/.

Open Your World, Online Forum to Discuss Open Source Principles

Event of Interest - Open Science Summit 2010 #OSS2010

The objective of this event according to the website, to Create an annual flagship event and news hub to build and maintain the identity of the international Open Science Movement. Organize the various sub-communities into an effective, global, socio-technological force for rapid change in science/innovation policy. See more http://opensciencesummit.com/
See also http://twitter.com/OpenScience2010

Event of Interest - Open Science Summit 2010 #OSS2010

OpenID Integration for Seamless Login with Google, Yahoo or AOL OpenID

Twiki Inc. announces availability of OpenID for the Twiki Enterprise Agility platform. Twiki Inc. is always looking for ways to make it easier for users to login and collaborate on the platform. Twiki administrators, managing existing installations can choose to install the OpenID library which is available for download immediately on twiki.org. The integration of OpenID 2.0 with the existing installation enables users with OpenID accounts on AOL, Google, Hyves, MyID.net, MyOpenID, MySpace, NTT MyDocomo, Verisign, Yahoo or any other Open ID provider to log into Twiki seamlessly. See www.twiki.net and the open source community can be found at www.twiki.org.

OpenID Integration for Seamless Login with Google, Yahoo or AOL OpenID

gvSIG Mini open source project (GNU/GPL) for Android

Something for Android mobile enthusiasts… gvSIG Mini is a free viewer of free access tile-based maps (OpenStreetMap, YahooMaps, Microsoft Bing, …), with WMS client, address search, POIs search, routes, etc.

Main latest featrues of 0.2.0 version are the following ones:
* Support for WMS and WMTS layers
* Compass support
* GPS, Cell and Network GeoLocation positioning
* Precission of the position displayed on the map
* Navigation Mode
* Share your location: Twitter, SMS, Email, Facebook…
* Compatible with Low and High Screen Resolutions
* Speed download improvements
* Street View integration
* New layers added by default
* Layer configuration downloader
* QuickZoom: SlideBar or DoubleTap
* Enable/disable GPS

See http://www.gvsigmini.org

gvSIG Mini open source project (GNU/GPL) for Android

The New Twitter for Android via QR code

Twitter for Android is now available and users can install by scanning the QR code here with the camera in their Android smartphone. Via eWeek, here's some additional info on the app: Google is expected to release its Android 2.2 Froyo build at Google I/O May 19. However, phones running that software may be a ways away...The theme for this release is sharing. Users of the app will be able to tweet and share links and photos from the Share button.

The New Twitter for Android via QR code

Welcome to The Open Lab

Welcome... obviously, we're very early in the planning stages here, however, stay tuned for TheOpenLab as we explore and report on open source, open initiatives, open government, and basically... anything "Open" - You can also find us via TheOpenLab.com

Welcome to The Open Lab