Vodafone opens Wayfinder code

Mobile network operator Vodafone is opening up the source code to its Wayfinder location-based services in a bid to drive development, writes the Inquirer.

The Wayfinder source code will be released to app developers through github, and Vodafone says it is liberating it for altruistic reasons as opposed to just chucking the tech it had spent so much time and money on in the bin.

In a statement, the firm says it was giving other companies the opportunity to use a code base that had seen more than a decade of development. It explained that these firms can then use its code to create new and innovative navigation tools.

Adobe has partnered with Sourceforge to expand its open source offerings and have more flexibility with the related programs, Softpedia reports.

All of Adobe's open source and standards efforts will be hosted and managed on Sourceforge through the site's new developer platform.

Adobe is the first customer of the new platform.

After nine months of development, the Novell-backed openSUSE Linux distribution has released version 11.3, which adds support for netbooks, touchscreen interfaces and a cloud-based backup and synchronisation services, states CIO.

At its core, openSUSE ships with kernel 2.6.34 with support for the next-generation Btrfs file system and the display and graphics drivers have been updated. Kernel Mode Setting (KMS) is enabled for ATI, Intel and Nvidia graphics processors and the open source Nouveau is the default Nvidia driver.

Version 11.3 includes three virtualisation hypervisors Xen, KVM and VirtualBox which have all numerous updates.