Splashtop 2.0 Does UMTS and Touchscreen
Jan 11, 2010The Linux-based instant-on operating system for fast access to the Web and chat adds more functions in version 2.0.
more »License Change at Novell Adds Confusion
Jan 08, 2010The recent mail from Novell titled "Upcoming maintenance requirement to access patches and service packs for select Novell products" only adds confusion for Linux customers. As it turns out, nothing much has changed.
more »Fedora Project Board Starts into 2010
Jan 08, 2010The project chair has appointed Red Hat employee Colin Walters to the board. John Poelstra begins the year with open feedback to the board's work.
more »First RC for Mobile Firefox Fennec
Jan 04, 2010Stuart Parmenter, responsible for Mozilla's mobile realm, has announced at the start of the new year in the Mozilla blog the first release candidate for the mobile Firefox.
more »26C3: WikiLeaks to Conquer Iceland
Dec 30, 2009The whistleblower project, protected by a cascade of tor servers, over the last months has made public a series of explosive documents. Now it wants to take a step further and plans a technical data model state in the north Atlantic.
more »Series 60 Remote 0.4.0 Beta 1 Released
Dec 28, 2009Just in time for the holidays, a new beta version of the mobile telephone software for the S60 operating system has been released. It includes, for example, support for N class smart phones from Nokia and the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic.
more »Wordpress 2.9 with Undo and Media Editor
Dec 22, 2009The free content management system, Wordpress, now available in version 2.9, (codename Carmen), comes with some major changes.
more »Qt Applications as Browser Applets
Dec 21, 2009"Qt Everywhere" is the motto of Nokia's GUI toolkit smiths. Now developer Morten Sorvig has transplanted Qt apps into the Firefox browser.
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Advanced Video Coding Still Under Patent
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Linux Exempt from California’s Age Verification Law
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