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XBRL: An Agent of Financial Reform? November 05, 2008 
Simplify. That, at its heart, is the purpose of XBRL -- extensible business reporting language. XBRL employs a common set of tags for financial terms, making reports more searchable and transparent to everyone who uses them. Designed to provide information to investors and anyone else researching financial markets, it is an open standard that is operating system agnostic.
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Innovating Up the Mobile Linux Stack October 28, 2008 
In the past five years, the mettle of mobile Linux has been tested -- and it has deservedly earned a shining new reputation as a real technology of choice -- an embedded operating system and a flexible platform for truly open innovation. Linux has even gained the status of the de facto operating system for the growing Mobile Internet Device market.
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Economic Gloom, Presidential Politics Collide With Tech October 17, 2008 
eBay came through with a profitable third quarter, but don't expect such good news in the coming months. Its earnings were almost 1 and a half billion dollars better than Q3 of last year, but the total sum of all transactions on the auction site actually went down one percent. That's a first.
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Devs Test Drive Firefox 3.1 Beta October 16, 2008 
Mozilla on Tuesday released the first beta of the next version of its browser, Firefox 3.1. The beta includes an enhanced Smart Location Bar, a new tab interface and what should be a faster JavaScript engine, dubbed "TraceMonkey." Developers also included improved Web standards in the Gecko layout engine.
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Geekonomics Author David Rice: 'They're Not Trying to Make Bad Software' October 15, 2008 
"Geekonomics is really about the economics of a technology ... and the positive and negative impact on us." That's according to David Rice, author of "Geekonomics: The Real Cost of Insecure Software." In his book, Rice discusses how software defects severely impact the U.S. economy and national security.
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Can Android Blow Wireless Industry Wide Open? October 13, 2008 
A research report is throwing more fuel on the prerelease fire surrounding T-Mobile's G1 phone using Google's Android open source operating system. "Success for Android has Little to Do with User Acceptance," claims the ABI Research headline, and director Kevin Burden writes that Android can help sell a lot of smartphones only if carriers and manufacturers recognize the business value of using standard platforms.
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Cloud Computing: Perilous Pitfall or Panacea? October 06, 2008 
There's never a dull moment for those of us lucky enough to be part of the technology industry, and we here at LinuxInsider are just as prone as the next tech enthusiasts to get caught up in the excitement of new innovations and ideas. Take cloud computing. It's a concept that has been grabbing an increasing portion of the digital ink on our pages and elsewhere.
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IBM Nixes Standards Shenanigans; Plus: Flying Lipstick-Wearing Pigs! September 26, 2008 
IBM has had enough of the silliness that goes on at some of the standards bodies it belongs to. So Big Blue now has a new policy: No shenanigans. Setting standards for hardware, software, communications protocols, document formats -- is a job that's way too important to be done in the dark, says IBM.
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Big Blue Adopts Anti-Shenanigans Standards Policy September 24, 2008 
IBM has announced a new corporate strategy regarding its participation in the hundreds of standard-setting organizations relevant to its products. Simply put, it only wants to work within an environment that is open and transparent. "There is simply no justification for standards to be created in nontransparent ways," said Bob Sutor, IBM's vice president of open source and standards.
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Google Burnishes Chrome for Browser Battle September 02, 2008 
Google is getting into the browser game with its first beta release of Chrome. The long-rumored open source project is scheduled to become available to users in 100 countries Tuesday, starting a new battle for loyalty within the Internet Explorer and Firefox user bases. Chrome boasts a slew of features designed to improve stability and speed.
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Reasons to Be Cheerful or Angry - Your Choice September 02, 2008 
Well Labor Day is here and gone again, and the footloose, fancy-free days of summer are over for another year. It may warrant the shedding of a small tear or two, but we here in the Linux community are fortunate to have so much uplifting and entertaining news these days to keep our spirits up.
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Data Portability: Carefully Chipping Away at the Garden Walls August 21, 2008 
A lot of effort in recent months has been expended toward something people are calling "data portability." Just about everywhere you look; you'll bump into people pontificating about it. In case you've been out of the loop -- perhaps hiking in the Himalayas -- you can run the term through your favorite search engine to pull back numerous articles and blog posts on the subject.
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If You Love Your Data, Set It Free August 14, 2008 
In the past, data was structured, secure and tightly controlled. The bad news is that the data was limited by the firewall of personnel, technologies, and process rigidity. Today, however, the demand is for just-in-time and inclusive data, moving away from a monolithic data system mentality to multiple sources of data that provide real-time inferences on consumers, activities, events and transactions.
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Yahoo's Fire Eagle Soars Out of Beta August 13, 2008 
Yahoo is helping make location more global with the launch of its new Fire Eagle platform. Fire Eagle lets users update their location in one centralized place, then have that data broadcast to a number of services. The launch opens up new possibilities for developers. Because the platform is open, any service can put the data to use -- and plenty already are.
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Citrix Systems' Simon Crosby: Xen and the Art of Cloud Computing August 12, 2008 
In his keynote speech at LinuxWorld Expo in San Francisco, Simon Crosby, Chief Technology Officer for Citrix Systems, announced the company's plan to open source Project Kensho, a set of tools that will help migrate virtual machines between different hypervisors and virtualization platforms. I sat down with Crosby, who joined Citrix from XenSource, where he had been chief technology officer.
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Firefox Wraps Tail Around Ogg Video Format August 04, 2008 
Mozilla is making a move toward open Web standards with its upcoming Firefox 3.1 release. The software -- now available in test builds -- will support the Ogg Theora video codec, the company revealed at its summit in British Columbia last week. The inclusion of the Ogg Theora codec means users will no longer have to download plug-ins or use JavaScript to play Theora video content.
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