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Pentaho Corporation today announced that it has made freely available under open source all the big data capabilities in its Kettle v4.3 release, and has moved the entire Pentaho Kettle project to the Apache License Version 2.0.

It has been a long time coming but now subscribers in the US can sign-up for a 100-Mbps-broadband connection.

Comcast, the largest cable (and broadband) company today announced that it is launching Extreme 105, across its entire footprint, which covers 40 million homes.

OSForge: "Packt today announced that its donations to open source projects have surpassed the $300,000 mark. Following its first donation to the phpMyAdmin project in April 2004, the company has gone on to provide sustained support for over 70 different open source projects."

Microsoft today announced that the Standard version of Windows Small Business Server (SBS) 2011 has been rolled out to hardware manufacturers.

Microsoft today announced that the release candidate of Service Pack 1 for System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 is now available.

Microsoft today announced that it has completed integrating its Bing search engine technology into Yahoo's U.S. and Canadian Web portals.

The Linux Foundation: "The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced that its Open Accessibility Workgroup is releasing IAccessible2 for Windows under the BSD license."

Episodic, an online-video hosting company based in San Francisco, today announced that is has been aquired by Google.

The Microsoft-Yahoo search and advertising deal, first announced back in July, has just been finalized

Geeknet: "SourceForge, Inc. today announced that it has changed its name to Geeknet, Inc. to more accurately reflect the company’s business and the growing market it serves.

The name change also supports the company’s intention to expand the reach of its online advertising services into new categories."