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HP has announced that webOS will be donated to the open source community as a “pure open source project,” with HP as an “active participant and investor.” Back in August 19 2011, I suggested that HP should make webOS “a free, Linux distribution, such that the relationship between it (HP) and webOS would be akin [...]
To all Mageia fans, the first alpha release of Mageia 2 is ready for download. Torrent and direct download links of 32- and 64-bit images are available here. Happy testing.
In Ribbon In The Sky, Stevie Wonder sang, “This is not a coincidence, And for more than a lucky chance …” That is what I’m thinking right now after learning that Google and Research In Motion (RIM) have announced new versions of their mobile operating systems, on the same day. I do not think it [...]
The 2011 edition of the Open Source Software World Challenge, an annual contest hosted by Ministry of Knowledge and Economy of Korea, will be sponsored by bada, the mobile platform division of Samsung. Any coder 12 years or older from any part of the globe, is eligible to enter the contest. The contest’s objective is [...]
If you use an Android-powered device, you should take note. Lookout, a mobile security outfit based in California, USA, is reporting that GGTracker, a new Android Trojan, can be automatically downloaded to your phone after a visit to a fake Android Market. According to Lookout: The Trojan targets users in the United States by interacting [...]
Think that cloud service is save? Think again. According to a study conducted by Scientists from the Darmstadt Research Center for Advanced Security (CASED), and report by ScienceDaily: Among 1100 public Amazon Machine Images (AMIs), which are used to provide cloud services, about 30 percent are vulnerable, allowing attackers to manipulate or compromise web services [...]
There is ongoing battle between two German firms that involves the Linux kernel. The companies are AVM Computersysteme Vertriebs GmbH (AVM), and Cybits AG (Cybits). According to a report by the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE): The case was brought to court by AVM with the aim of preventing Cybits from changing any parts of [...]
XBMC is a media center application for Linux and BSD desktop distributions. It comes pre-installed on a handful of distributions, but is available in the repositories of many. The project has a logo, but not a mascot, so the developers started a mascot contest about a month ago. Yesterday, the result was announced and the [...]
The Calligra project has announced the second snapshot release of Calligra, a cross-platform Office productivity suite forked from KOffice, the office suite for the K Desktop Environment (KDE). The Calligra Office Suite includes Words, Kexi, Plan, Flow, Tables, Karbon, Krita, and Stage. According to the release notes: While most work has gone into the layout [...]
FreeSWITCH has released mod_rtmp, a RTMP solution for open source VoIP and telephony. FreeSWITCH is a “scalable open source cross-platform telephony platform designed to route and interconnect popular communication protocols using audio, video, text or any other form of media.” From the announcement: The FreeSWITCH team is pleased to announce that we have officially released [...]
The KDE project has announced a new Kontact Suite for desktop computers and mobile devices. Kontact Suite is a set of Personal Information Management (PIM) applications for KDE, and is built on the Akonadi framework. From the news release: The new Kontact Suite 4.6 is a major milestone for KDE software to provide outstanding features [...]
The Free software Foundation has published a commentary on OpenOffice.org’s move to the Apache Foundation. OpenOffice.org is the office suite that was recently donated by Oracle Corporation to the Apache Foundation, months after the core developers left to form the Open Documentation Foundation and LibreOffice, a fork of OpenOffice.org. Part of the commentary reads: Oracle, [...]
This is not a rumor, just news from the horses mouth: HP TouchPad will be available in the US starting July 1, 2011. There will be a 16 GB version for $499.99 and a 32 GB version for $599.99. From the official Palm blog: The Wi-Fi version of HP’s first webOS tablet will be available [...]
BlueStacks, a startup software development outfit based in San Francisco, USA, is offering to make it possible for you to run Android applications on a Windows computer. That is, download, install and run your Android apps on Windows. I know I will never use the services, but it could prove very useful for a lot [...]
