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Gregory Ray, lead organizer of LivingArcana.com announced today that he has hired the Brazilian programmer, Gutemberg Ribeiro, of “Conceptus” an open source game engine, to port his engine over to…

Funambol today announced it has released an open source native app for iPhone contact synchronization. The Funambol plug-in for iPhone synchronizes the iPhone's address book with contacts from…

In a purely technical sense, news that Apple will offer an iPhone software development kit and allow third-party applications is not an open source story.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source…

As recently reported on Slashdot, Apple, in its infinite wisdom, has added a checksum to the iPod database apparently to restrict non-iTunes products (like Amarok via libgpod) from having the…

"I have the urge to commit my 24" Core 2 Duo iMac to a single Linux operating system, thus giving up the goodness of my beloved Mac OS X. I am not a stranger to Linux, but I am a stranger to…

gtkpod is a platform independent GUI for Apple's iPod using GTK2. It allows you to import your existing iTunes database, to add songs, podcasts, video and cover art and to edit ID3 tags. gtkpod…

Apple Inc. acquired ownership the CUPS source code and hired the creator of CUPS (Michael R Sweet).

CUPS will still be released under the existing GPL2/LGPL2 licensing terms, with continued…

The Neuros people are looking to grab the attention of AppleTV Hackers:

"I am writing to introduce you to Neuros, and to solicit your help in building the next generation open set-top box,…

An interesting debate has started in The VAR Guy’s home. His old Windows XP PC is running out of gas. He was leaning toward a Mac Mini as a replacement. But now, Dell just complicated things.…

That's the question that occurs to me as I read this piece in Roughly Drafted. It's about how Apple is kicking Microsoft's butt at the high end of the desktop market, and how Microsoft seems to be…