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Submission + - Ryu Sunt-tae Creator Of UIzard (opensourcereleasefeed.com)

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volume4

on Friday May 15, 2009 @02:20PM

volume4 writes: "A couple of days ago the folks over at Ajaxian introduced the world to UIzard, an awesome creation by a Korean developer using YUI. There is actually a heck of a lot more about it and the excitement about the app caused the UIzard website to go down and most people could not interact with the app or learn more. A day or so later the website was back but I could still not access the app. I went on a search to find the creator of UIzard to learn more about it and finally through Jinho.Jung on Flickr I go hold of his email address and hooked up with Ryu Sunt-tae to learn more."

Submission + - South Africa rolls out biometric passports (vnunet.com)

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on Saturday April 18, 2009 @04:55AM

volume4 writes: "The South African Department of Home Affairs has begun rolling out security enhanced passports to new applicants from this week. A facility in Pretoria which prints the new passports was officially opened last week by the minister of home affairs, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula. The new passports have an embedded RFID chip which stores the owner's biometric information, including personal details, a high-resolution colour photograph and fingerprint information."

Submission + - JaikuEngine In Our Hands - Now Open Sourced (blogspot.com)

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on Saturday March 14, 2009 @11:04PM

volume4 writes: "The switch has been flipped and Jaiku has been moved to App Engine. Google will no longer be developing Jaiku and the source and the future of Jaiku is in the hands of the open source community. From the Jaiku blog: "So, developers, start your JaikuEngines. As Google will no longer be actively developing jaiku.com, the future of Jaiku is in your hands. Point your browser to the project and join the jaikuengine-discuss group to learn more and get started.""

Submission + - Symbian Introduces OpenSource Release Plan (symbian.org)

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volume4

on Saturday March 14, 2009 @06:01AM

volume4 writes: "There's a lot of activity underway, throughout the software development teams for all the different packages that make up the Symbian Platform. These packages are finding their way into platform releases. Seems like a 'hardened' release could see the light of day early 2010."

Submission + - Five Questions With Michael Widenius (opensourcereleasefeed.com) 3

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on Monday February 09, 2009 @06:13AM

volume4 writes: "With two MySQL execs leaving Sun in the last week the internet is a buzz about what is going on at Sun, what is the future of MySQL and what lies ahead for Michael Widenius. Over at Open Source Release Feed, Michael Widenius spoke candidly regarding his split from Sun, the future of MySQL, Monty Program AB and the open source ecosystem in general."

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