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The Open Usability Season of Usability will be supporting 10 students to work on 10 open source projects . The Season of Usability is a series of sponsored student projects to encourage students of usability, user-interface design, and interaction design to get involved with Free/Libre/Open-Source Software (FLOSS) projects.

Google Chrome OS is an open source operating system for people who spend most of their time on the web built around the core tenets.

Google India says it has no control over blogspot or blogger or Google, its parent company. Google is the top search engine, biggest online advertising company and provider of hosts of other online facilities.

Google wants to create a VAR channel for Google Apps and is taking steps to make that a more widely known reality with initiatives such as "Going Google". Click on the link to read the story.
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Acer is fixing to be the first manufacturer to offer a Google Chrome OS netbook, according to chairman JT Wang.The word is that Wang wants to offer an Acer netbook with the open-source web-based operating system some time in the second half of next year

To put a chrome application shortcut to Gmail, Google Reader, Twitter, Facebook, or any other webapp you want to keep open in a separate window, open the site in chrome.

MySQL is one of the most popular open source database management system for the development of interactive Websites.If your site stores its sensitive data in a MySQL database, you will most definitely want to backup that information so that it can be restored in case of any disaster.

Mumbai-born actress Freida Pinto, star of "Slumdog Millionaire," could soon be the next female star of a James Bond movie, a source says.An unidentified source said Pinto has been asked by Barbara Broccoli, who produces the James Bond spy films, about serving as the next Bond girl, People.com reported Sunday.