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Google To Pay For Open-Source Code Security Fixes

Jeremy Kirk | Computerworld | October 10, 2013

Awards program aims to improve critical open-source tools widely used across the Internet Read More »

Healthcare.gov Borrows Code, Leaves Out Copyright Notice

Sterling Beard | National Review Online | October 17, 2013

The newest coding problem with Healthcare,gov, the website for the federal Obamacare exchanges, isn’t exactly a glitch. Read More »

HealthCare.Gov Was Originally Built In A Garage

Sarah Kliff | The Washington Post | October 9, 2013

You  may be surprised to learn that when you arrive at HealthCare.Gov the first page you see on the Web site was not built in a bland office park somewhere in Virginia. It was built in the District of Columbia. By a team of 12 engineers. Their offices are in a garage, and they wanted to use the site to buy themselves health insurance in 2014. Read More »

Help A US Gov't Agency Switch To Open Source, Win $3 Million

Neil McAllister | The Register | January 11, 2013

The US Department of Veterans Affairs is looking to upgrade the 25-year-old software that powers its nationwide health care system, and it's betting real money that open source is the way to do it. Read More »

Hiring Managers Advise Job Seekers To Contribute To Open-Source Projects

Fred O'Connor | PCWorld | February 11, 2014

Contributing to open-source projects can give software developers an edge over other applicants in the competitive IT job market, say hiring professionals. Read More »

How Healthcare.gov Could Be Hacked

Dana Liebelson | Mother Jones | October 24, 2013

Security experts say the federal health insurance website is vulnerable to a common technique that hackers use to steal personal information. Read More »

How HP and Open Source Can Save WebOS

Neil McAllister | InfoWorld | December 15, 2011

Hewlett-Packard's announcement last week that it plans to release the source code to WebOS under an open source license could be the former Palm platform's last, best hope of gaining a meaningful foothold in the mobile market -- but only if HP handles the transition to open source the right way.

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HP TouchPad Enables Doctors to Control MRI Scanners

Brian T. Horowitz | eWeek | December 29, 2011

Although Hewlett-Packard announced that the TouchPad tablet will soon meet its demise, it still has a job at California's Stanford University, where researchers are using the device to control a Magnetic Resonance Imaging scanner. MRIs collect detailed 3-D images of the body without the radiation exposure levels of X-rays. Read More »

Indian Govt Takes The Open Source Route

Diksha P. Gupta | EFY Times | July 8, 2011

According to the latest draft policy on e-governance, all new projects must work on open source operating systems only. The draft Policy On Device Drivers For Procurement Of Hardware For e-governance says, “Government of India (GOI) endeavours to provide e-governance services, which are technology-neutral, cost effective, interoperable and vendor-neutral. Read More »

Inner-Sourcing: Adopting Open Source Development Processes In Corporate IT

Tim Yeaton | OpenSourceDelivers | August 29, 2012

Today, we are hearing from customers more and more frequently that they want to gain the benefits of open source community-style collaborative development inside their corporate development organizations – what Tim O’Reilly has called “inner-sourcing.” Read More »

Kaiser Permanente Invites Software Developers To Build Apps

Zina Moukheiber | Forbes | June 3, 2013

Health care giant Kaiser Permanente took small steps today allowing developers to access code to public information residing on its website, through an application programming interface (API). Read More »

Libelium Launches New Generation of Waspmote Sensor Nodes

Press Release | Libelium | February 26, 2013

Libelium, a wireless sensor networks platform provider for Smart Cities solutions, today released a new version of Waspmote, its open source wireless sensor platform, designed with input from a community of more than 2,000 developers. Read More »

Linux Foundation's Jim Zemlin on another great year

Glyn Moody | Computerworld | November 12, 2012

Last year, I interviewed the head of the Linux Foundation, Jim Zemlin, about his own career, and about his organisation. That interview took place at the first European LinuxCon, which was held in Prague. This year, it took place in Barcelona, and I took the opportunity to catch up with Zemlin on what had happened in the intervening time (disclosure: the Linux Foundation paid for my travelling and accommodation while I was there.) Read More »

MI-Squared Dev Talks: How To Develop And Submit Changes To The OpenEMR Project

Ken Chapple | MI-Squared | April 8, 2013

“I want to develop for the OpenEMR project, how do I get started?” [...] Whether you’re a novice or an expert, we welcome your participation in the OpenEMR project. This MI-Squared “Dev Talk” is the first in a series of OpenEMR-related lessons, created by one of our senior developers, Ken Chappell. Ken will walk you through the entire life cycle of contributing a code change you develop to the OpenEMR  open source project. Read More »

More Symantec Woes: Software Update Shuts Down Military EHR

Gienna Shaw | Fierce Health IT | January 26, 2012

A software update was to blame for the shutdown of active-duty and retired military personnel and their families, according to Nextgov. The Department of Defense shut down its electronic health record system, the Armed Forces Health Longitudinal Technology Application (AHLTA) on Jan. Read More »