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A robotics company in California showed the pair of robots James and Rosie, who can make an excellent breakfast. They do all the preparation of pancakes, from finding the ingredients to turn them in the skillet. The group of experts in robotics Willow Garage presented James, the robot PR2 Beta Program that opens and closes doors and drawers, looking [...]

Microsoft is opening the Outlook code as open source, under the terms of the license open source Apache to allow access to tools to e-mail of the Office suite. With this, developers outside the company can create applications to read and extract emails, contacts and calendar data file format .PST. According to the website The Register, Microsoft’s [...]

Circulating on the Internet rumors that Google will soon release the video codec VP8 under an Open Source license. Originally created by a company called On2 VP8 fell into the hands of Google when the company acquired last year On2. The idea is using the VP8 to encourage the adoption of HTML5 video format as a replacement for popular videos in Flash. [...]

The White House website has undergone by a subtle reform this weekend. Nothing happened in the visual area of the site, however, the system of content management has changed: for the open source Drupal. The move was made thanks to the Barack Obama team’s media, who wanted a development environment more flexible for the White House on the Internet. [...]

It is almost always prohibited to copy, to distribute, to reproduce or to modify most of the products that has as raw material the information, the technology or the knowledge. Now, there are proliferated in the world whole movements that defend the flag of the collaborative system of knowledge production (such as Open Source Software), creating tangible [...]

Another change is about to happen on Wikipedia, which now wants to popularize the concept of “open video”. The Internet users, in two or three months, may use the button “Add Media” to add videos to the articles of Wikipedia, according to information from Technology Review, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. When [...]