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Made in IBM Labs: IBM Donates Cooperative Web Technology That Enables Life Changing Healthcare Solutions

IBM announced that the company is donating new software code to help health care and other industries work on shared content in real-time, on the Web. The code is from IBM Project Blue Spruce and will be donated to the Dojo Foundation's Open Cooperative Web Framework (OpenCoweb).

HTC today launched HTCdev, a program designed to support mobile developers through tools, resources and community and it also announced the HTC OpenSense SDK, which will allow developers to harness software and hardware innovations on HTC phones to develop more richly integrated mobile applications and experiences.

NVIDIA announced that YouTube is for the first time giving users the ability to view thousands of 3D videos in rich, high-quality stereoscopic 3D on their NVIDIA® 3D Vision™ PCs and notebooks when using the latest version of the Mozilla Firefox Web browser.

Xi3 Corporation announced its ChromiumPC modular computer, the world's first desktop computer designed to run Google's Chrome operating system.

Based upon the Xi3 Computer Architecture, the ChromiumPC computer is a cube-like, small form factor, low-power (20Watts) dual-core modular computer that can be adapted to run other operating systems or to perform specialized functions. Xi3 Corp. has been developing the ChromiumPC since 2009. Pricing will be disclosed later this year, with General Availability expected in the second half of 2011.

Some of IT biggest companies are standing up to VMware, creating the Open Virtualization Alliance, an industry group meant to accelerate the adoption of an open-source virtualization stack built atop the KVM hypervisor.

BMC Software, Eucalyptus Systems, HP, IBM, Intel, Red Hat and SUSE announced the formation of the Open Virtualization Alliance, a consortium committed to fostering the adoption of open virtualization technologies including Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM).

A UK-based nonprofit revealed a fully-configured PC which is about the size of a USB key, and is designed to plug into a TV or be combined with a touch screen for a low cost tablet. The expected price is $25 (18JD) for a fully-configured system.

Raspberry Pi which plans to produce this low cost PC that "fits in your keychain", is led by the game developer David Braben and his Cambridge colleagues.

Black Duck Software, a global provider of products and services for automating the management, governance and secure use of open source software, today announced trends in mobile open source development platform choices that show Android leading the pack but Apple iOS still in the game.

W3C unveiled today an HTML5 logo, a striking visual identity for the open web platform. W3C encourages early adopters to use HTML5 and to provide feedback to the W3C HTML Working Group as part of the standardization process.

Electrolux introduced Infinity I-Fridge, an innovative 'smart fridge' running the open source operating system Linux and produced in cooperation with ProFusion embedded systems.