Hildon vs. QT: Developers at Ubuntu Mobile consider Change to KDE
Jan 22, 2009Since November 2008 it's been popular knowledge that Ubuntu has been working on a version of its operating system for the mobile ARMv7 architecture, especially for Cortex A8/A9 processors. Now it seems that Ubuntu mobile might drop Gnome Mobile Hildon framework in favor of Qt.
more »Asus Kickoff: Eee Videophone with 7-Inch Display
Jan 22, 2009The kickoff session at the CeBIT 2009 show in Munich included a presentation of the new Asus Eee Videophone with Skype certification.
more »Sun Open Sources Web Server
Jan 20, 2009Core components of the Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 are now available as open source. Re-named Open Web Server 1.0, Sun Microsystems has released the server under the BSD license.
more »Google Sets Jaiku Free
Jan 16, 2009Google will close the microblog project Jaiku and publish the source code under an Apache license.
more »Conceptual 1.0 with GUI and Eclipse Plug-in
Jan 16, 2009The Conceptual domain-specific language generates programs that measure the performance and test the correctness of networks and their protocol layers. The newest version 1.0 of the product provides a graphical user interface (GUI) to facilitate generating these programs.
more »Qt 4.5 Under Lesser GPL
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more »Quo Vadis, Mozilla?: 3-Point Plan for World Domination
Jan 14, 2009Mitchell Baker, chairperson of the Mozilla Foundation, has presented a plan in her blog whereby Mozilla will have Web world domination by 2010.
more »Tor Software Down to Zero Bugs
Jan 13, 2009The Tor Project announces that it has removed all bugs that Coverity Scan had found in its software.
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