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Open phones are more vulnerable
The opening up of the mobile industry is great news for application developers but not so good for IT security professionals who want to sleep at night, executives from the security industry said Thursday.

Simplexo launches open-source enterprise search tool
A U.K. start-up called Simplexo has launched an open-source enterprise search engine, joining a small but growing group of vendors hoping to crack the crowded technology space through that development model.

Red Hat to demo heavy Oracle processing
Red Hat is set to demonstrate heavy Oracle applications running on a virtualized environment at next week's VMWorld. The company also aims to perform a live migration during the demo, claiming to complete the migration much quicker than can any of its competitors.

OpenMoko users open up about their phones
What you need is a smartphone that's free.

Lenovo halts online sales of Linux-based PCs
Lenovo is cutting back on sales of desktops and laptop systems with the Linux operating systems pre-installed.

Sub-Saharan universities train in Web 2.0 tools
Representatives from 12 universities in eight sub-Saharan countries are meeting in Uganda to train in the use of Web 2.0 tools and open-source software.

Mobile health to expand to 22 sub-Saharan countries
The United Nations Foundation and Vodafone Foundation's Technology Partnership is expanding its mobile health (mHealth) program to 22 countries in sub-Saharan Africa.

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