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gzipped_tar sends in this excerpt from the Salt Lake Tribune: 'The embattled SCO Group Inc. is proposing to auction off its core products and use proceeds to continue its controversial lawsuits over the alleged violations of its copyrights in Linux open-source software. The Lindon company has filed a new reorganization plan with the federal court in Delaware where it sought bankruptcy protection from creditors after an adverse ruling in the Linux litigation. If approved by a bankruptcy judge, the plan could mean SCO's server software and mobile products lines are owned by other parties while SCO itself remained largely to pursue the lawsuits under the leadership of CEO Darl McBride. 'One goal of this approach is to separate the legal defence of its intellectual property from its core product business,' McBride said in a letter to customers, partners and shareholders. Jeff Hunsaker, president and COO of The SCO Group, said the litigation had been distracting to the company's efforts to

NewsFactor - Many observers of this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas are waiting to see what kind of presence the open-source Android mobile-phone platform will have among new smartphones. Some have speculated that HTC, which makes the pioneering T-Mobile G1 Android handset, might release its own Android model.

Extentech announces an open source Java Alternative to Sharepoint and Google Docs, the 1.0 version of ExtenXLS 360, a document collaboration server for agile businesses. ExtenXLS 360 was created for corporate and SMB developers that need the flexibility and choice of a standards-based open source document automation system that can run on any platform without vendor lock-in. E360 puts power and control developer's hands by offering an extensible and feature-rich web spreadsheet and CMS system. Built on the open sourceread more

The purchase is expected to equip IBM with automated process intelligence for its business process management products.

While the U.S. economy remains in a recession and the 2009 CES expo has been scaled back a bit, PC vendors such as Lenovo, Hewlett-Packard and others are using the show to highlight a new offering of laptops and mininotebooks that are thinner, lighter and much cheaper for consumers to buy. At the same time, AMD and Freescale Semiconductor are each launching new platforms that look to challenge the market that Intel has created with its Atom processor. - At the 2009 CES expo, its all about laptops, ultraportables and mininotebooks.When this years CES officially kicks off Jan. 7 in Las Vegas with microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer delivering the opening keynote address, PC makers such as Lenovo and Hewlett-Packard along with Intel, Advanced Micro Devices,...

While the U.S. economy remains in a recession and the 2009 CES expo has been scaled back a bit, PC vendors such as Lenovo, Hewlett-Packard and others are using the show to highlight a new offering of laptops and mininotebooks that are thinner, lighter and much cheaper for consumers to buy. At the same time, AMD and Freescale Semiconductor are each launching new platforms that look to challenge the market that Intel has created with its Atom processor. - At the 2009 CES expo, its all about laptops, ultraportablesand mininotebooks.When this years CES officially kicks off Jan. 7 in LasVegas with MicrosoftCEO Steve Ballmer delivering the openingkeynote address, PC makers such as Lenovoand Hewlett-Packard along with Intel, Advanced Micro Dev...

Micro Focus has announced the availability of Micro Focus COBOL for Eclipse, encompassing versions of Micro Focus' Net Express and Server Express solutions designed specifically for the Eclipse open source ecosystem. Micro Focus COBOL for Eclipse provides an integrated development environment across multiple platforms enabling organizations to save on development costs while increasing agility and productivity. Organizations are able to create the same development environment across Windows, Linux and UNIX, making it easier for programmers to move between languages read more

The first WiMax rollout since Clearwire and Sprint Nextel combined operations debuts in Portland. The open all-IP network provides customers with average download speeds initially of 2-4 megabits per second and peak rates that are considerably faster. Clearwire plans to provide WiMax service in most of the top 100 markets by no later than 2010, although the current economic conditions could put a crimp in those plans. - If not quite coast-to-coast, WiMax is now at least on eachcoast. Three months after Sprint Nextel debuted the nation's first WiMaxrollout in Baltimore, Clearwire ? the newly combined WiMax operations of Sprintand Clearwire ? flipped the switch Jan. 6 on a WiMax deployment in Portland,Ore.W...