Schooner Improves MySQL Replication
Updated: 2011-04-01 02:40:01
Schooner Active Cluster for MySQL promises fully synchronous replication for MySQL databases.
Desktop Synchronization Shootout: Comparing the Best Linux Backup Tools
Updated: 2011-04-01 01:09:02The Linux landscape is littered with backup tools for the desktop — but which is the best? Choosing a backup solution can be confusing, but don't sweat it — we've looked at the best Linux backup tools for the desktop to help you select the one that's right for you. We'll help you choose between Dropbox, SpiderOak, Déjà Dup, and the rest.Google AppEngine 1.4.3 Gets Prospective Search
Updated: 2011-03-31 22:10:01From the blogs: New release of Google's cloud application technology brings Java and Python closer together.Linux-based IP telephony server updated
Updated: 2011-03-31 20:44:10Mitel announced an updated version of its Linux-based Unified Communications server for the SMB market. The Mitel 5000 CP 5.0 adds support for up to 20 eight-party conferences, bidirectional synchronization of voice messages with email, dynamic extensions for up 10 associated devices, a new web portal, and a System Open Architecture Interface (OAI) Toolkit for third-party app integration....David Müller's Blog: Parallel processing in PHP
Updated: 2011-03-31 19:41:37: : News Feed Jobs Feed Sections Tutorials Books Events Talks Jobs Recent Jobs Kevin Schroeder's Blog : Added PHP 5.3 job queuing to my WordPress instance Job Posting : Jacob Group Recruiter Seeks Director of Software Development Lacrosse , WI Job Posting : Skillshare Seeks Senior Frontend Engineer New York , NY Job Posting : SoftLayer Seeks Software Engineer Interface Development Dallas , Tx Job Posting : Company Confidential Seeks Senior PHP Developer Montreal , Quebec , Canada Job Posting : SoftLayer Seeks Software Engineer Systems Development Dallas , Tx Job Posting : HowStuffWorks.com Seeks UI Developer Atlanta , GA Job Posting : Company52 Seeks Web Developer Telecommute Job Posting : Moontoast Seeks PHP Symfony Engineer , Contract Nashville , TN Job Posting : Moontoast Seeks SeniorFirefox for Android Gets it Mostly Right
Updated: 2011-03-31 19:21:13This is Mozilla's most far-reaching mobile move yet, and for the most part, the browser-maker does its Firefox brand proud.Google lowering boom on vendors over Android fragmentation, reports say
Updated: 2011-03-31 18:22:43Google is talking to ARM about the possibility of standardizing both Android 3.x and ARM processors to offer a more consistent experience, says an industry report. Meanwhile, another report says Android device vendors have complained to the U.S. Justice Department over Google's increasingly heavy-handed pressure discouraging UI customizations of Android....Federal IT Dashboard Goes Open Source
Updated: 2011-03-31 17:53:49Today, we're excited to announce that our Civic Commons team, working with the White House and the Federal CIO, has made the cost-saving IT Dashboard, the technology behind IT.USAspending.gov, freely available for any government entity to use and customize.NASA hosts its first open source summit
Updated: 2011-03-31 16:44:05With tight budgets ahead as far as the eye can see, NASA is increasingly looking toward open source technology and the help of a volunteer community to help out. The U.S. space agency hosted its first Open Source Summit this week to reach out to the open source community and explain its often confusing and incompatible open source license....PHPBuilder.com: PHP Framework Review: DooPHP
Updated: 2011-03-31 16:29:40: : : News Feed Jobs Feed Sections Tutorials Books Events Talks Jobs Recent Jobs Kevin Schroeder's Blog : Added PHP 5.3 job queuing to my WordPress instance Job Posting : Jacob Group Recruiter Seeks Director of Software Development Lacrosse , WI Job Posting : Skillshare Seeks Senior Frontend Engineer New York , NY Job Posting : SoftLayer Seeks Software Engineer Interface Development Dallas , Tx Job Posting : Company Confidential Seeks Senior PHP Developer Montreal , Quebec , Canada Job Posting : SoftLayer Seeks Software Engineer Systems Development Dallas , Tx Job Posting : HowStuffWorks.com Seeks UI Developer Atlanta , GA Job Posting : Company52 Seeks Web Developer Telecommute Job Posting : Moontoast Seeks PHP Symfony Engineer , Contract Nashville , TN Job Posting : Moontoast Seeks SeniorLikewise Open Sees 100,000 Downloads Thanks Open Source Community
Updated: 2011-03-31 16:28:11Likewise announced today that over 100,000 organizations have downloaded Likewise Open, its cross-platform integration software used for joining desktops and servers running Linux, Unix and Mac OS X to an organization's existing Active Directory environment.LearnComputer.com: Best PHP Books: My Top 5 Choices
Updated: 2011-03-31 15:57:32: : : News Feed Jobs Feed Sections Tutorials Books Events Talks Jobs Recent Jobs Kevin Schroeder's Blog : Added PHP 5.3 job queuing to my WordPress instance Job Posting : Jacob Group Recruiter Seeks Director of Software Development Lacrosse , WI Job Posting : Skillshare Seeks Senior Frontend Engineer New York , NY Job Posting : SoftLayer Seeks Software Engineer Interface Development Dallas , Tx Job Posting : Company Confidential Seeks Senior PHP Developer Montreal , Quebec , Canada Job Posting : SoftLayer Seeks Software Engineer Systems Development Dallas , Tx Job Posting : HowStuffWorks.com Seeks UI Developer Atlanta , GA Job Posting : Company52 Seeks Web Developer Telecommute Job Posting : Moontoast Seeks PHP Symfony Engineer , Contract Nashville , TN Job Posting : Moontoast Seeks SeniorNASA Hosts its First Open Source Summit
Updated: 2011-03-31 15:44:05With tight budgets ahead as far as the eye can see, NASA is increasingly looking toward open source technology and the help of a volunteer community to help out. The U.S. space agency hosted its first Open Source Summit this week to reach out to the open source community and...What Would Be Crazy For Linux Right Now
Updated: 2011-03-31 15:28:28There's already been some to think that Postal III being pushed back and its unknown Linux fate being some early April Fools' Day joke, but unfortunately that's not the case. You won't find any April Fools' news items on Phoronix, but if there were some "crazy" Linux announcements, what would...FIRST Open Source Robotics Competitions Teach Collaboration
Updated: 2011-03-31 15:00:33Among unsung open source collaboration efforts, the FIRST annual robotics competition deserves much more attention than it gets.NASA Concludes First Open Source Summit, Aims to Make Openness the Default
Updated: 2011-03-31 15:00:00NASA has been implementing an Open Government Plan for nearly a year, and this week they held the first NASA Open Source Summit in Mountain View, CA. But the roots of open source at NASA go back much further, to its founding legislation in 1958, which designed NASA as a...Mozilla's Do Not Track Header Gaining Ad Industry Support
Updated: 2011-03-31 15:00:00One of the new features that Mozilla introduced in Firefox 4 is a Do Not Track (DNT) setting. When the user enables the DNT option in the browser's preference dialog, Firefox will transmit a custom header in HTTP requests that will inform servers that the user wants to opt out of Internet tracking.NetBeans 7.0's First Release Candidate Appears
Updated: 2011-03-31 15:00:00As the release of JDK 7 nears, Project Coin and other Java 7 support is added to NetBeans 7.0's first release candidate, but there are also enhancements for HTML5 editing, Maven 3 support and improved Glassfish handling...Spotlight on Linux: Supergamer Supreme 2.5
Updated: 2011-03-31 15:00:00Supergamer is, as you might guess, a Linux distribution whose main focus is on gaming. It's based on a lighter distributions, features a light desktop, and is chocked full of games and demos. It began life in the Spring of 2006 and was received with great enthusiasm.Site News: Blast from the Past - One Year Ago in PHP
Updated: 2011-03-31 13:00:49: : News Feed Jobs Feed Sections Tutorials Books Events Talks Jobs Recent Jobs Kevin Schroeder's Blog : Added PHP 5.3 job queuing to my WordPress instance Job Posting : Jacob Group Recruiter Seeks Director of Software Development Lacrosse , WI Job Posting : Skillshare Seeks Senior Frontend Engineer New York , NY Job Posting : SoftLayer Seeks Software Engineer Interface Development Dallas , Tx Job Posting : Company Confidential Seeks Senior PHP Developer Montreal , Quebec , Canada Job Posting : SoftLayer Seeks Software Engineer Systems Development Dallas , Tx Job Posting : HowStuffWorks.com Seeks UI Developer Atlanta , GA Job Posting : Company52 Seeks Web Developer Telecommute Job Posting : Moontoast Seeks PHP Symfony Engineer , Contract Nashville , TN Job Posting : Moontoast Seeks SeniorCamp KDE Preview: All About Mobile
Updated: 2011-03-31 00:53:48Camp KDE, taking place April 4-5, 2011, is co-located this year with The Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit. It's worth hitting Hotel Kabuki a little early next week to see what the KDE community is doing with the mobile desktop. I talked to Camp KDE organizer Jeff Mitchell to learn more...Expandable PC's meant for power substations
Updated: 2011-03-30 23:27:13Moxa announced a device for power automation applications it's calling & the world's most precise timekeeping computer.& The DA-683 includes a dual-core Intel Atom D510 CPU, two SATA connectors, a CompactFlash slot, six gigabit Ethernet connectors, dual bays for PCI-based expansion modules, and configurations sporting dual power inputs, the company says....Kernel Log: First Release Candidate for Linux 2.6.39
Updated: 2011-03-30 23:18:41Torvalds said that he considers 2.6.39 more of a solid version with a boring amount of progress – however, with ipset, the Xen network backend, as well as many new and improved drivers, the new kernel, which is expected to be released in late May or early June, does offer numerous improvements which matter to end users.Fanless industrial PC can take the heat
Updated: 2011-03-30 20:23:54Aaeon announced a fanless embedded controller that has an operating range from -4 to 140 deg. F. The AEC-6625 has a 1.86GHz Intel Celeron P4500 processor, room for one or two 2.5-inch hard disk drives, six USB 2.0 ports, up to three serial ports, and an optional PCI-104 expansion slot, according to the company....Box PC gains dual-core Atom option, PCIe
Updated: 2011-03-30 20:19:18Axiomtek launched a fanless industrial box computer with an Intel Atom N450 or dual-core Atom D510 processor, each clocked at 1.66GHz. The eBOX620-800-FL supports up to 2GB DDR2 memory, provides PCI Express expansion, offers a variety of connectivity including gigabit Ethernet, and supports a wide temperature range, says the company....Community News: Lone Star PHP Conference Announced
Updated: 2011-03-30 19:42:16: : News Feed Jobs Feed Sections Tutorials Books Events Talks Jobs Recent Jobs Kevin Schroeder's Blog : Added PHP 5.3 job queuing to my WordPress instance Job Posting : Jacob Group Recruiter Seeks Director of Software Development Lacrosse , WI Job Posting : Skillshare Seeks Senior Frontend Engineer New York , NY Job Posting : SoftLayer Seeks Software Engineer Interface Development Dallas , Tx Job Posting : Company Confidential Seeks Senior PHP Developer Montreal , Quebec , Canada Job Posting : SoftLayer Seeks Software Engineer Systems Development Dallas , Tx Job Posting : HowStuffWorks.com Seeks UI Developer Atlanta , GA Job Posting : Company52 Seeks Web Developer Telecommute Job Posting : Moontoast Seeks PHP Symfony Engineer , Contract Nashville , TN Job Posting : Moontoast Seeks SeniorAMD joins open source embedded group
Updated: 2011-03-30 16:50:06OSADL (Open Source Automation Development Lab) announced four new members, including new & silver& member AMD. OSADL, which has begun testing real-time Linux on AMD's G-Series processors, also announced & bronze& memberships for Spanish software engineering firm DSM4, German automotive technology manufacturer Eberspacher, and Austrian industrial research firm OpenTech EDV....Greplin Open-Sources Asynchronous Python Tools
Updated: 2011-03-30 15:57:00Greplin, the company behind the universal search tool we covered last year, has open-sourced several tools for Tornado and Twisted, such as Tornado clients for sending e-mail with Amazon SES and SendGrid. Tornado is the non-blocking Web server built with Python by FriendFeed, and Twited is a Python-based event-driven networking...Here's The Special AMD Present For Ubuntu Users
Updated: 2011-03-30 15:00:00As talked about at length yesterday, the Catalyst 11.3 driver that was just released is not compatible with the X.Org Server 1.10 final ABI. What this means is that this proprietary Linux driver update will not work on Ubuntu 11.04, Fedora 15, and other Linux distributions experiencing major updates. AMD...Using Gallium3D On AMD FirePro Workstation GPUs
Updated: 2011-03-30 15:00:00How well do AMD's FireGL/FirePro workstation graphics cards work with the open-source graphics drivers for Linux? It's something we never have really focused on up to this point, since after all, most workstation users are satisfied with using proprietary display drivers on Linux. It is the workstation market that drives...Celebrate Document Freedom Day!
Updated: 2011-03-30 15:00:00Today marks the annual observance of Document Freedom Day (DFD), a global day for document liberation.UK ICT Strategy Offers "Level Playing Field" to FOSS Again
Updated: 2011-03-30 15:00:00Although a "level playing field" for open source has been offered before, this time it is backed up by mandatory open standards and a new procurement structure...How To Set Up Kippo SSH Honeypot On CentOS 5.5
Updated: 2011-03-30 15:00:00Kippo is a medium interaction SSH honeypot designed to log brute force attacks and, most importantly, the entire shell interaction performed by the attacker. Kippo is inspired, but not based on Kojoney. This tutorial shows how you can compile and...LinuxCon North America 2011: Call For Participation Announced
Updated: 2011-03-30 15:00:00The Linux Foundation has announced that it is now accepting submissions for its LinuxCon North America 2011 technical conference, which will take place from 17 to 19 August 2011 at the Hyatt Regency in Vancouver, Canada...Mozilla Releases Firefox 4 for Mobile
Updated: 2011-03-30 15:00:00After more than a year of development, the Mozilla mobile project has announced the release of the final version of Firefox 4 for Mobile, also known as "Fennec", for the Maemo-powered Nokia N900 and various Android devices...Work Smarter, Not Harder: Tips for Linux Administration Done Right
Updated: 2011-03-30 15:00:00Interrupt driven. That's how a lot of sysadmins define their jobs, and it's absolutely true. We spend a good portion of every day running from problem to problem. Whether it be a user who can't get their email, to a jammed printer, to a server that's got a failed disk, we friendly neighborhood system administrators have plenty to do on a daily basis. However, we're also some of the most resourceful people in any given organization. It's time we used that resourcefulness to make our lives easier. I'm going to run through some techniques and ways of thinking that will help you better manage your workload and increase the overall quality of the services you provide to your organization.Particularly Exciting Week in Linux
Updated: 2011-03-30 15:00:00Linux is usually exciting, but this past week brought several nice developments. Slackware announced another developmental milestone for their next version. Bodhi Linux reached 1.0. Foresight announced their first release in two years. Zenwalk developers released version 7.0. And SimplyMepis gets a release candidate.Introducing /run
Updated: 2011-03-30 15:00:00Lennart Poettering has sent out a note warning Fedora users that they will see a new top-level /run directory soon. "In the past weeks key people from the Debian, Suse, Ubuntu and Fedora camps (and others, too) discussed the whole issue forth and back, to find a solution to stop...Debian Welcomes Student Applications for Google Summer of Code 2011
Updated: 2011-03-30 15:00:00Debian is now inviting students to apply for Google Summer of Code 2011 with Debian. This will be the sixth consecutive participation of Debian and as each year, the developer...Amazon music service embraces Android, ignores iOS
Updated: 2011-03-30 05:04:06Amazon.com beat Apple and Google to launching a cloud-based music service, offering 5GB of free music storage accessible via PC, Macs, and Android phones and tablets. The Amazon Cloud Drive service and Cloud Player for Android app, however, could face a legal challenge from the recording industry....India's HCL launches trio of Android tablets
Updated: 2011-03-29 23:24:00HCL Infosystems announced three Android 2.2 tablets for the Indian market, featuring one-button access to HCL's India-focused Touch online service. The & ME& tablets include the seven-inch ME AE7 and ME AM7, both with 800MHz processors, as well as the 10-inch, 1GHz ME AP10, says the company....Geode processor sips power on pico-ITX board
Updated: 2011-03-29 21:25:35Kontron announced a pico-ITX SBC (single board computer) featuring AMD's 500MHz Geode LX800 processor. The KTLX800/pITX includes up to 1GB of RAM, a microSD slot, 10/100 Ethernet, four USB 2.0 ports, two RS232 ports, and an SATA II interface, the company says....Tuxified base station juggles WiMAX and LTE with in-memory database
Updated: 2011-03-29 21:12:13McObject announced a design win for its in-memory ExtremeDB database, built into a new Linux-based 4G base station from Airspan Networks. The compact Air4G device uses ExtremeDB to help it simultaneously support WiMAX and LTE 4G networks, says the company....Signage-oriented Cortex-A8 SoC supports Linux, Android
Updated: 2011-03-29 18:12:15Fabless semiconductor vendor Conexant announced a digital signage-oriented system-on-chip (SoC) with Linux and Android development support. Built using an ARM Cortex-A8 core, the CX92755 supports HD video encoding and decoding, video/graphics overlay, image processing, plus integrated audio and power supply control, says the company....A Proposal For Compiling Direct3D HLSL With LLVM
Updated: 2011-03-29 16:51:57Lately we have been talking a lot about this year's Google Summer of Code whereby Google pays student developers to work on various free software projects over the summer. While GSoC has been taking place for several years, this year there's been several interesting proposals expressed. Among the proposals to...Android will lead smartphone market this year, says IDC
Updated: 2011-03-29 16:48:31Android will surge to a dominant 39.5 percent share of the fast-growing global smartphone market this year, then further climb slowly to a 45.4 percent share by 2015, says IDC. Meanwhile, Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 will see the fastest growth as it supplants Symbian to reach a second-place 20.9 percent share by 2015, the research firm projects....Intel Advances Solid State Storage
Updated: 2011-03-29 15:00:00Third generation of Intel SSDs debut with larger capacities and better performance.OpenFlow: The NoSQL of Network Protocols
Updated: 2011-03-29 15:00:00In the early 1960s, Paul Baran invented packet switching. Packet switching became the foundation ARPANET, which later gave way to the Internet. Baran died at the age of 84 last Saturday.Amazon Debuts Cloud Storage and Player
Updated: 2011-03-29 15:00:00Amazon launches new Cloud Player for streaming and storing music and delivers Cloud Storage for consumers.What is the Value of Red Hat's Patents?
Updated: 2011-03-29 15:00:00Linux leader Red Hat has now been recognized for the strength of its patents, what is it doing with all that intellectual property?Open Source GCC 4.6 Compiler Gets Faster
Updated: 2011-03-29 15:00:00From the blogs: Leading open source compiler adds support for Google's Go language and speeds up in new release.Droid X and Droid 2 get Unofficial Android Gingerbread 2.3
Updated: 2011-03-29 15:00:00Is your Motorola Droidphone hungry for some Gingerbread? Well, the lucky little guy can now get its taste with the recently released Android 2.3 builds for Droid X and Droid 2 from My Droid World. Droid Life's got all the details, including a hands-on video (provided after the break) and...Distribution Release: Zenwalk Linux 7.0 "Openbox"
Updated: 2011-03-29 15:00:00Markus Muttilainen has announced the release of Zenwalk Linux 7.0 "Openbox" edition, a Slackware-based distribution featuring the lightweight Openbox window manager: "Zenwalk Openbox 7.0 is ready. I am happy to bring you the Openbox spin of Zenwalk Linux. This release focuses on being more beginner-friendly by providing an....LibreOffice Celebrates Six Months
Updated: 2011-03-29 15:00:00The LibreOffice project is celebrating its six-month birthday. "What we have seen now is just the beginning of something very big. The Document Foundation has a vision, and the creation of the foundation in Germany is about to happen soon. LibreOffice has been downloaded over 350,000 times within the first...Development Release: SimplyMEPIS 11.0 RC1
Updated: 2011-03-29 15:00:00The first release candidate of SimplyMEPIS 11.0, a user-friendly, Debian-based distribution with KDE, is ready for testing: "Warren Woodford has uploaded SimplyMEPIS 10.9.94, the first release candidate of MEPIS 11.0. This RC is available from MEPIS and public mirrors. MEPIS 11.0 RC1 is build from a Debian 'Squeeze'....Clearing the way for white space networks
Updated: 2011-03-28 23:42:03Microsoft researchers have come up with a way to better utilize & white space& networks, which would tap into unused TV spectrum to deliver broadband services. & SpecNet& would create a network of spectrum analyzers, allowing remote detection of frequencies that could be used for transmission, according to a paper that will be presented next week....Top Five 2011 Linux Gurus announced
Updated: 2011-03-28 23:28:36The Linux Foundation announced the Top Five 2011 Linux Gurus -- the members who contributed the most to the Linux.com community over the last year. This year's winner is Matthew Fillpot, who will receive a & Dream Linux Machine& and, like the other winners, an invitation to next week's Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit....Linux distros build on Conary package system
Updated: 2011-03-28 22:01:43The Foresight Linux project released Foresight Linux 2.5, the first major release of this rolling-release Linux distro in two years, featuring Linux 2.6.35, GNOME 2.32.1, KDE 4.6.1, and Xfce 4.8. Meanwhile, rPath released rPath X6, a specialized Linux distro and appliance-building system that, like Foresight, is based on the Conary package manager....Intel offers 25nm-fabbed SSDs with up to 600GB
Updated: 2011-03-28 22:01:02Mechanical hard disk drives took another step toward obsolescence via Intel's announcement of its & third-generation& solid state disks (SSDs). Now offered in capacities as high as 300 or 600GB, the SSD320 series offers lower pricing, sequential write speeds that have doubled in speed, plus new encryption and data protection features, the company says....Announcing the 2011 Linux.com Gurus
Updated: 2011-03-28 19:14:51Today is one of my favorite days of the year: the day we reveal the annual Linux.com Gurus. The 2011 Linux.com Gurus represent the most active members of the Linux.com community and through their contributions the site, they help other Linux users to locate and share valuable information and they are able to market their skills and position themselves for potential job opportunities.Two Years in the Making: Foresight Linux 2.5.0
Updated: 2011-03-28 19:14:50While most of us were taking it easy this weekend, the Foresight Linux folks were pushing out the 2.5.0 release with a whole host of goodies — including updated KDE, Xfce, and GNOME.Five Best Linux Office Tools
Updated: 2011-03-28 19:14:37
The business office is where the Linux desktop should reign. Why? Linux is a reliable, stable, secure solution that would have any business user working day-in and day-out without fail. With an unheard of resistance to viruses, trojans, and worms, the office user enjoying the Linux desktop would have no concerns about down time as does the average Windows user. But what tools are there available for the usual office worker? Plenty!
Google planning NFC deal with Citi, MasterCard, says report
Updated: 2011-03-28 18:35:11Google is working with MasterCard and Citigroup on a mobile payment service designed for NFC-enabled Android phones like the Nexus S, says an industry report. Meanwhile, Google is planning a Nexus-branded reference tablet built by LG, and might block tablets equipped with Android 2.x from upgrading to Android 3.0, says another report....Gallium3D's LLVMpipe Under LLVM 2.9
Updated: 2011-03-28 11:14:16Version 2.9 of the Low-Level Virtual Machine is set to be released in a little more than a week, but what will it mean much for users in terms of performance? We will be looking at the LLVM 2.9 and Clang performance in the coming days (along with GCC 4.6,...Gallium3D OpenCL May Finally Get Some Needed Love
Updated: 2011-03-28 11:14:15It was in early 2009 when we heard that OpenCL and OpenGL 3.1 state trackers would be here hopefully soon for Gallium3D. Well, nearly two years later, neither state tracker has yet to emerge. There's no OpenGL 3.x state tracker in development and core Mesa only has limited support for...GCC 4.6 Brings Intel Optimizations, AVX, Improvements
Updated: 2011-03-28 11:14:14While no release announcement has yet to hit the wire, GCC 4.6.0 is now available. Uploaded to the GCC mirrors yesterday afternoon was the GCC 4.6.0 final source packages, right ahead of their planned release which is/was expected to be around Monday. It was only earlier this month that the...GCC 4.6.0 Released
Updated: 2011-03-28 11:14:13The GCC 4.6.0 release announcement has gone out. There is a long list of changes for this release, including support for the Go language, improved C++0x support, many optimization improvements including a "scalable whole program optimizer" which is said to be stable enough to use, a new -Ofast option, and...7 of the Best Free Linux e-book Tools
Updated: 2011-03-28 11:14:11To provide an insight into the free software that is available, we have compiled a list of 7 of our favorite e-book software. Hopefully, there will be something of interest here for anyone who wants to read, organise and create electronic books. We give our highest recommendation to Calibre.Development Release: Slackware Linux 13.37 RC 3.1415926535897932384626433832
Updated: 2011-03-28 11:14:10More fun with Slackware's version numbers as Patrick Volkerding announces the latest release candidate for the upcoming Slackware Linux 13.37: "There have been quite a few changes so we will have one more release candidate: Slackware 13.37 RC 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716. Very close now! But we'll likely hold out for....Kleckner: Unladen Swallow Retrospective
Updated: 2011-03-28 11:14:09Unladen Swallow developer Reid Kleckner has posted a look back at the project (which was working on an LLVM-accelerated Python implementation) and why it ended up so fiercely pining for the fjords. "Finally, the signals we were getting from python-dev were not good. There was an assumption that if Unladen...The AMD "Radeon HD 8000" Open-Source Milestone
Updated: 2011-03-28 11:14:08The discussion surrounding issues with the Linux kernel DRM code has been quite interesting. From the 40+ comments so far, there's been some interesting feedback from some of the key open-source driver developers along with AMD. In particular, the generation to succeed the next-generation of AMD graphics processors (what will...Enabling Compiz Fusion On A Debian Squeeze Desktop (Nvidia GeForce 8200)
Updated: 2011-03-28 11:14:07This tutorial shows how you can enable Compiz Fusion on a Debian Squeeze desktop (the system must have a 3D-capable graphics card - I'm using an Nvidia GeForce 8200 here). With Compiz Fusion you can use beautiful 3D effects...Amazon.com Lets You Play With an Android Virtual Machine, Try Apps Before You Buy Them
Updated: 2011-03-28 11:14:06When Amazon's Appstore rolled out last week, we glossed over one detail that merely seemed neat. Today, we're inclined to saythat Amazon's Test Drive may be the most significant piece of the whole thing.Weekend Project: Learn VimOutliner on Linux
Updated: 2011-03-25 23:39:35Remember when you were a student, and teachers were always telling you to start with an outline? Turns out, that's actually a pretty good idea. Not just for writing, which many people don't do in great amounts after getting out of school, but for putting together ideas, planning your week, and so forth. If you want a no-frills, but efficient and useful, way to manage your outlines it's time to embrace VimOutliner. So this weekend, your project is to get started with VimOutliner.Customizable tablets and panel PCs run Linux, Android
Updated: 2011-03-25 22:11:02Sparkpad has begun selling customizable display computers at sizes ranging from eight to 15 inches, complete with a touch-ready, Lua-based Linux SDK and promised Android support. Sparkpad's Wi-Fi enabled tablets and panel PCs run on ARM11-based Telechips 8902 processors, and are touted as enabling customers to develop and deploy their own touch panels, digital signage systems, and tablets quickly....Asus 10.1-inch Honeycomb Tablet Features Keyboard Dock
Updated: 2011-03-25 19:25:35Asus is taking pre-orders in Taiwan for a 10.1-inch, Android 3.0-based Eee Pad Transformer tablet that plugs into an optional keyboard docking station. The Eee Pad Transformer TF101 offers a 1GHz Nvidia Tegra 2 processor, a 10.1-inch, 1280 x 800 touchscreen, 1GB of RAM, 16GB of flash memory, plus both...Nicaragua to host Debian Developer Conference 2012
Updated: 2011-03-25 19:09:05On March 22, 2011, the DebConf committee decided that DebConf12, the Debian developer conference of 2012, will take place in Managua, Nicaragua. This...SeaMonkey 2.0.13 Security Update
Updated: 2011-03-25 18:26:58SeaMonkey 2.0.13 has been released. This version includes an update to the HTTPS certificate blacklist. "We strongly recommend that all SeaMonkey and old suite users upgrade to this latest release."...Cisco Debuts OfficeExtend Access Points
Updated: 2011-03-25 13:54:46Consumer-grade Wi-Fi access points aren't always enough, are they?How to Sync Firefox 4 to Android
Updated: 2011-03-25 13:54:45Android users, Firefox is making a major play to be your go-to browser. You can now sync all kinds of settings, open tabs, bookmarks, and passwords between Firefox 4 on your PC and Firefox 4 on your Android. Here's how it's done.Distribution Release: Trisquel GNU/Linux 4.5
Updated: 2011-03-25 13:54:44Rubén Rodríguez has announced the release of Trisquel GNU/Linux 4.5, an Ubuntu-based desktop distribution built from free (as defined by Free Software Foundation) components only: "Our latest version is ready for download. It includes a lot of updates, along with an overhaul of the development process which was....The Nook Color is Getting an Android App Store in April
Updated: 2011-03-25 13:54:43Have you faithfully refused to jailbreak your Nook Color, never mind that you couldn't access those handy apps from the Android Market? Stick to your guns awhile longer: Barnes & Noble is launching their version of a Nook Android app store this April, along with Flash support for the device.Strong Software Sales Drive Oracle’s Profit Up 78%
Updated: 2011-03-25 13:54:42Sales rose 37 percent as demand for corporate software and a more robust economy helped all sectors of the company.LF Collaboration Summit Preview: QuIC's Mark Charlebois
Updated: 2011-03-25 05:12:58: Skip to content Skip to main navigation Skip to 1st column Skip to 2nd column Linux Foundation Training Events Video More Linux.com Try our NEW BETA Search Home News Software Applications Multimedia Linux Kernel Development Developer Hardware Desktops Laptops Peripherals Servers Drivers Embedded Mobile Mobile Linux Netbooks MIDs Phones Business of Open Source Governance Legal Enterprise Computing Enterprise Business Cloud Computing Clustering Linux Storage High Performance Networking Systems Management Case Studies Featured Blogs Technology Feature Security RSS Feeds Linux Community Community Blogs Groups Events Forums Linux Guru Rankings Top Linux.com Gurus Contests and Polls Contests T-Shirt Design Contest Polls and Surveys Join the Linux Foundation Carry the Linux Credit CardGoogle to delay open source Honeycomb release
Updated: 2011-03-25 04:45:00Google said it will delay the release of open source code for its tablet-oriented Android 3.0 & Honeycomb& OS due to concerns that developers will try to port it to smartphones and other devices prematurely. The revelation, which has already riled up the open source community, might be a tacit admission that Honeycomb was released too soon....RIM confirms Android compatibility for PlayBook tablet
Updated: 2011-03-25 04:04:04Research in Motion will release two app players this summer that allow running Android 2.3 and Blackberry Java apps on its upcoming PlayBook tablet. The 1GHz, seven-inch tablet will run the apps in a secure virtual & sandbox,& giving PlayBook users access to a potentially huge number of applications....Foremay ships world's smallest solid state disk
Updated: 2011-03-24 22:20:00Foremay is shipping a NAND solid state drive (SSD) claimed to be the world's smallest SSD & disk-on-chip.& Its OC177 DOC chip measures only 0.87 x 0.87 x 0.07 inches (22 x 22 x 1.8mm), supports standard IDE or SATA host interfaces, and is available in 32GB capacities, with a read/write speed of up to 70/40MB/sec, says the company....Using Google's WebP Image Format with Open Tools on Linux
Updated: 2011-03-24 21:52:57Google's WebM project, the free and open video codec based on VP8, offers tantalizing benefits for fans of Linux and open source: better quality, plus full support in the browser and other applications, thanks to the lack of royalty-demanding patent holders. Often overlooked in the WebM story is the other media format unveiled by Google at the same time: WebP, a lossy still-image format said to provide better-than-JPEG quality at substantially slimmer file sizes. Is WebP poised to displace the stodgy old photo format? Let's take a look at the free tools available for writing, converting, and displaying WebP files to find out.Fanless industrial PCs have CompactFlash, Mini PCI Express expansion
Updated: 2011-03-24 21:04:51Kontron announced two fanless box PCs that offer a range of industrial interfaces. The CB 511 includes a 1.6GHz Intel Atom processor, CompactFlash storage, and a Mini PCI Express expansion slot, while the CB 753 offers a 2.26GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, two 2.5-inch drive bays, plus both a Mini PCI Express slot and another slot that can support either PCI Express x16 or PCI slots, according to the company....Aircell unveils Android in-flight phone
Updated: 2011-03-24 21:02:44Inflight telephony vendor Aircell announced its first Android-based phone, designed specifically for business aircraft. Due later this year, the Aircell Smartphone offers a 3.8-inch screen, said to be the largest available in the aviation telephony market....Embedded Linux and Android conferences announce speakers
Updated: 2011-03-24 19:16:17The Linux Foundation has announced keynote speakers for the Embedded Linux Conference (ELC) 2011, running April 11-13 in San Francisco, and the co-located Android Builders Summit on April 13-14. The Android Builders Summit features a keynote from Motorola's Christy Wyatt, who will no doubt be grilled about the rumor that Motorola is building its own mobile operating system....Students in Open Source: How Do I Get Started?
Updated: 2011-03-24 14:00:00The Palmetto Open Source Conference (POSSCON), currently happening in Columbia, SC, has a large number of students and people new to open source attending. Leslie Hawthorn of the OSU Open Source Lab gave them an introduction yesterday afternoon for how students can get started in open source. Why open source?A Generational Look at Open Management
Updated: 2011-03-24 14:00:00Whether you’e a newly appointed manager or a weathered veteran, one thing’ for certain: when it comes to leading the workforce of the future, the times they are a-changin’ The ability (and willingness) to understand and adapt to the new paradigms of working will separate the good managers from the...Moonlight Gains Hardware Accelerated Video Playback
Updated: 2011-03-24 14:00:00The Novell-sponsored Mono Project has announced that it has completed a series of optimisations in the Moonlight engine, allowing it to take advantage of a user's graphics card processor (GPU) for data intensive video rendering operations...Red Hat is on its Way to $1 Billion in Sales
Updated: 2011-03-24 14:00:00Sales in the last quarter for the Linux distributor have increased by 25 per cent, bringing the company closer to $1 billion per year...FFmpeg Integrates Multi-Threading Support
Updated: 2011-03-24 14:00:00After nearly three years of development, the FFmpeg project developers have announced that they have merged FFmpeg-mt, the project's formerly-experimental multi-threaded decoding branch, into the main FFmpeg trunk code-base...Ardour 3 is Taking Shape
Updated: 2011-03-24 14:00:00The lead developer of Ardour, Paul Davis, has released the first version 3.0 alpha of the multi-track recorder and digital audio workstation. The most important new feature is the addition of MIDI support...Black Duck Studio 6 Debuts
Updated: 2011-03-24 14:00:00Black Duck Software announces Black Duck Studio 6, the latest version of its code management and governance solution. - Black Duck Software has announced the availability of the Black Duck Suite 6. The latest release of the companys enterprise-class management and governance platform for open source software increases developer productivity...GParted Live Partition Editor Updated
Updated: 2011-03-24 14:00:00The GParted developers have released version 0.8.0-5 of GParted Live, a small bootable Linux distribution that contains the GParted partition editor application...Bechtolsheim: Open Source to Spark Big Data Innovation
Updated: 2011-03-24 14:00:00Katie Fehrenbacher from GigaOM writes that Andy Bechtolsheim believes Open Source is the way to go for solving Big Data problems: “Bechtolsheim said that Moore’ Law has shown progress unequaled in the history of mankind, he expects that transistors will improve in the same fashion for another 10 or 20...List of Accepted Organizations Released for Google Summer of Code 2011
Updated: 2011-03-24 14:00:00Google as released the list of organisations that are accepted into this year's Google Summer of Code.3.5-inch SBC can take the heat
Updated: 2011-03-24 04:03:41Axiomtek announced a 3.5-inch single board computer equipped with a 1.1GHz Intel Atom Z510PT processor and an operating range of -40 to 185 deg. F. The SBC84826 can use up to 2GB DDR2 memory, and offers Mini PCI Express expansion, gigabit and fast Ethernet, four USB 2.0 ports, and four serial ports, says the company....Android GPL infringement allegations questioned
Updated: 2011-03-23 23:18:40A growing number of Linux insiders have said that allegations about Google violating GPL licensing related to its use of Linux header files in Android are incorrect, with Linus Torvalds saying the claims & seem bogus.& Meanwhile, it has been reported that the chief legal scholar making the claims had formerly represented Microsoft, leading some to hint at a Redmond FUD ploy....Transparent solar charger to be built into touchscreen displays
Updated: 2011-03-23 22:10:02French technology firm Wysips has developed a prototype of a smartphone display that doubles as solar charger, says an industry report. Due to arrive in phones and tablets as early as 2012, the technology adds a thin, transparent photovoltaic film on top of a mobile display, and can fully charge a cellphone battery in six hours of outdoor light, claims the company....MeeGo Smart TV group launched
Updated: 2011-03-23 20:28:11The Linux Foundation launched a MeeGo Smart TV Working Group with partners including Intel, MIPS, Sigma Designs, Nokia, Amino, MIPS, and Nokia. Meanwhile, Amino, the maker of the first MeeGo IPTV set-top box, has published a white paper on MeeGo IPTV security, and Linpus says it developed a MeeGo stack for the new Fujitsu LifeBook MH330 netbook....Amazon launches Android Appstore as Apple sues
Updated: 2011-03-23 15:50:41Amazon.com opened its Appstore for Android, providing a service not offered by Google's Android Market: allowing users to sample apps before they pay for them. The Appstore launches with exclusive free downloads of & Angry Birds Rio,& and offers additional benefits such as its recommendation engine, but it already faces a lawsuit from Apple over its name....Flexibility and the Evolution of GPU Applications and Systems
Updated: 2011-03-23 15:06:43Dell’ Dr. Jeff Layton writes about the need for flexibility in the evolution of GPU applications and systems: “In my interactions with a great number of HPC customers, I’e found one thing to be true: writing code for GPUs is an evolutionary process. Actually writing any code follows an evolutionary process, but it is more pronounced with GPU applications because small changes can have a...Amazon launches Android Appstore as Apple sues
Updated: 2011-03-23 14:50:41Amazon.com opened its Appstore for Android, providing a service not offered by Google's Android Market: allowing users to sample apps before they pay for them. The Appstore launches with exclusive free downloads of & Angry Birds Rio,& and offers additional benefits such as its recommendation engine, but it already faces...Wayland, Dumb Frame-Buffers & Embedded SoCs
Updated: 2011-03-23 14:47:31If you're not following the many Linux development mailing lists out there, the latest major discussion surrounding the Wayland Display Server that's spanned the Wayland, DRI/DRM, and Fbdev mailing lists has been about using Wayland on "dumb frame-buffers", KMS vs. fbdev, and DRM drivers on embedded SoCs...Page Speed for Chrome
Updated: 2011-03-23 14:44:00Web developers using Chrome can now test the performance of their sites with a version of Google's Page Speed web page performance analyser for Chrome...Firefox 4 Downloads Are Already Eclipsing Internet Explorer 9's
Updated: 2011-03-23 14:00:00Yesterday, Mozilla delivered the much awaited version 4 of its Firefox browser, after numerous delays. If you've taken to using other browsers or have otherwise come to doubt the momentum and influence that Firefox still has, it's worth considering some of the numbers and statistics that are coming out regarding enthusiasm for Firefox's new version. Mozilla itself is supplying some eye-popping numbers. According to the live counter on Mozilla's Firefox 4 download site, in the first 24 hours of the browser's availability there have been nearly 7 million downloads. To put that in perspective, PC Mag reported on the number...Firefox 4 Downloads Approach 7 Million, After Less Than 24 Hours
Updated: 2011-03-23 14:00:00According to Mozilla's Firefox 4 Download Stats page, in just under 24 hours after it was released, the number of downloads for Firefox 4 have exceeded 6.96 million...Django 1.3 Released
Updated: 2011-03-23 14:00:00Version 1.3 of the Django web framework has been released. New features include class-based views ("This means you can compose a view out of a collection of methods that can be subclassed and overridden to provide common views of data without having to write too much code"), better logging, better...The Five Best Linux BitTorrent Clients
Updated: 2011-03-23 14:00:00If you're new to Linux and looking for a great BitTorrent client, you're in luck. Linux has a fantastic variety of BitTorrent clients and we've picked out five of the best Linux BitTorrent clients you'll find today.Installing Firefox 4.0 (.deb Package) On Ubuntu 10.10
Updated: 2011-03-23 14:00:00In this short guide I will show you how you can install the new Mozilla Firefox 4.0 browser (released March 22, 2011) on an Ubuntu 10.10 desktop. Fortunately, there's a Launchpad PPA repository that has Firefox 4.0 .deb packages, so we can...2010 Free Software Awards announced
Updated: 2011-03-23 14:00:00The FSF has announced the winners of its 2010 awards. The award for the advancement of free software went to Rob Savoye, currently the maintainer of the Gnash project. The award for "projects of social benefit" was given to the Tor project.Introducing the OER University: 5 Questions with Wayne Mackintosh
Updated: 2011-03-23 13:23:37I first learned of the idea of OERu from a webinar coordinated by Steve Hargadon at FutureofEducation.com's lecture series. Read more... read more...Acer's 10.1-inch Honeycomb tablet gains a carrier
Updated: 2011-03-23 04:30:05AT T announced it will offer the 10-inch Acer Iconia Tab A501 tablet beginning this summer, featuring Android 3.0 running on a dual-core 1GHz Nvidia Tegra 2 processor. The Iconia Tab A501 will provide 4G cellular networking, offer five- and two-megapixel cameras, plus Android Market support, says AT T....LiMo 4 spec adds support for Linux tablets
Updated: 2011-03-22 17:16:49The LiMo Foundation says it has approved four mobile device class specifications for the LiMo 4 mobile Linux stack. Citing first-time tablet support plus three different smartphone specs, the Foundation projects commercial releases within multiple LiMo classes starting in the second half of this year....Open Source Flash Improves with Gnash
Updated: 2011-03-22 11:54:05From the blogs:Latest Gnash 0.8.9 platform improves stability and interactivity for open source Flash player...Google Summer of Code 2011 - Mentoring Organizations Announced
Updated: 2011-03-22 11:54:04Google has finalized the list of organizations participating in the 2011 Google Summer of Code. The list includes GNOME, KDE, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Blender Foundation, Inkscape, and very many more. The student application period opens on March 28. See the timeline for other dates of interest.Microsoft sues Barnes and Noble over Android
Updated: 2011-03-22 11:54:02Microsoft has announced the filing of a lawsuit against Barnes & Noble, Foxconn, and Inventec, alleging patent infringement in the Android-based Nook ebook reader. "The patents at issue cover a range of functionality embodied in Android devices that are essential to the user experience, including: natural ways of interacting with...Practical Tips for Open Source License Compliance
Updated: 2011-03-22 11:54:01Jilayne Lovejoy, OpenLogic’ Corporate Counsel, and Eric Weidner, OpenLogic’ Co-Founder and Senior Development Manager, recently sat down for an informative discussion on practical tips for open source license compliance.Eclipse sings open-web tune: No framework, no problem
Updated: 2011-03-22 11:54:00Project Orion is a browser-based development effort run by the Eclipse Foundation, but it does something very different from the Eclipse Framework, a workbench favored by enterprise Java developers for connecting lots of different third party tools into a common and open framework.Stable Kernel 2.6.33.8 Released
Updated: 2011-03-22 11:53:59Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of 2.6.33.8. "This is primarily for the use of those people who are stuck using the .33-rt kernel. Anyone else who really wants to use the .33 kernel tree is welcome to use this one as well. I'll be maintaining it for a while...Hands on with Firefox 4 for Android (RC)
Updated: 2011-03-22 11:53:58Firefox for Android is almost here! CNET sat down with the Mozilla team for an up-close-and-personal look at the mobile browser.Open Source ALM Set to Take Off in 2011
Updated: 2011-03-22 11:53:57The Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) space has evolved rapidly as open source ALM tools continue to mature. In fact, open source ALM is poised for wide adoption in 2011.Non-Oracle MySQL Fork Deemed Ready for Prime Time
Updated: 2011-03-22 11:53:56Drizzle debuts its first general availability (GA) release.Cray to Build Huge, Grunting 20-Petaflop ‘Titan’ for US Gov Labs
Updated: 2011-03-22 11:53:55Oak Ridge National Laboratory, one of the big supercomputer centers funded by the US Department of Energy, has tapped Cray to build a monster cluster that will weigh in at 20 petaflops when it is completed next year.Whirlwind Intro to Audacity on Linux: From Recording to CD in One Lesson
Updated: 2011-03-22 11:53:53Audacity, the popular cross-platform software audio recorder and editor, is easy-to-learn yet very capable. To get started, I'll show you how you can create your own CD in Audacity on Linux. From simple recording all the way to mastering the CD, you'll learn the basics of doing audio production in Audacity.T-Mobile offers dual-core Android phone, prices G-Slate tablet
Updated: 2011-03-22 04:07:35T-Mobile and LG announced a HSPA+ 4G smartphone running a stock version of Android 2.2, and also tipped a $530 price for LG's Honeycomb-based G-Slate tablet, said to be & coming soon.& The & T-Mobile G2x with Google by LG& includes a dual-core Nvidia Tegra 2 processor, a four-inch display, an eight-megapixel camera, and a front-facing 1.3-megapixel camera, says the company....Using Conditional Statements in LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org Calc on Linux
Updated: 2011-03-21 23:16:11
Just under the surface of LibreOffice or OpenOffice.org Calc, you'll find a ton of powerful features — many of which are often overlooked. In particular, Linux users are often unaware that they can use conditional statements to make life much easier. If you're using Calc in LibreOffice or OpenOffice.org, read on to learn how to use IF/ELSE statements in your spreadsheets.
Google Voice to roll out free to Sprint customers
Updated: 2011-03-21 22:41:46Sprint's Nexus S 4G Android phone will offer the first pre-installed access to the Google Voice VoIP service -- which will soon be available for download onto any CDMA-based Sprint smartphone. Sprint customers can use their existing numbers as Google Voice numbers, and have access to cheap international calls, call screening and routing, and personalized greetings features, says the carrier....Microsoft sues Nook partners over Android-based UI
Updated: 2011-03-21 21:43:36Microsoft has filed a lawsuit against Barnes Noble with the ITC and the U.S. District Court of the Western District of Washington over Android-based UI techniques used in the Nook-e-reader claimed to be covered under Microsoft patents. The lawsuit also targets Nook device manufacturing partners Foxconn International and Inventec, says the company....Android smartphone offers 4.3-inch 3D display, stereoscopic cameras
Updated: 2011-03-21 19:25:19AT T announced a version of the LG Optimus 3D & glasses-free 3D& Android 2.2 phone optimized for its HSPA+ & 4G& network. The LG Thrill 4G features a dual-core 1GHz processor, a 4.3-inch display, a five-megapixel stereoscopic camera, 16GB of flash memory, HDMI output, and access to an & LG 3D Space& content repository, says the carrier....Seats Are Still Available for the Open Compliance Training Class Offered in Conjunction with ...
Updated: 2011-03-21 15:32:30Did you know that we’e hosting an onsite open compliance training course directly after the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit next month at Hotel Kabuki in San Francisco? It’ important to The Linux Foundation to provide every opportunity to the community for learning and exchanging ideas. By hosting this one-day training course in conjunction with the Summit, we hope to increase access to this important content on open compliance and to provide a classroom environment for...Rubyvis: A Ruby Port of the Protovis Library
Updated: 2011-03-21 14:00:00
Protovis is a data visualization tool from the Stanford Visualization Group. We mentioned it last month when we covered the group's Data Wrangler project. Rubyvis is a port of Protovis, which uses JavaScript, to Ruby. Both use SVG for output. Here's a simple example from the Rubyvis site: Rubyvis is...
webOS 2.1 SDK Now Available to all Comers, Teases 'Big Push' for Veer Launch
Updated: 2011-03-21 14:00:00Though webOS 2.1 has already gone out to Pre 2s (and a handful of Pre Pluses) around the globe, developers not included in HP's NDA-protected Early Access Program have been shut out of the latest version of the SDK -- until now.COM Express module supports latest Intel Core processors
Updated: 2011-03-18 22:04:16Portwell announced a COM Express Type II module that supports Intel's latest & Sandy Bridge& quad-core and dual-core Core i7/i5 processors. The PCOM-B217VG supports up to 16GB DDR3 SDRAM via dual sockets, and offers multiple PCIe lanes, four SATA ports, a gigabit Ethernet port, and eight USB ports, says the company....Linux-based VPN router offers wide temperature range
Updated: 2011-03-18 19:20:49Korenix is readying the JetBox 9435-w, a Linux-based industrial embedded Layer 3 VPN routing computer with an Intel Xscale IXP435 667MHz RISC processor, eight 10/100 Ethernet ports, and extended temperature support. The company also has begun touting its JetBox 9400- and 9500-series as suitable platforms for network video recording (NVR) applications....Apple questions benchmarks claiming Android faster than iPhone 4
Updated: 2011-03-18 15:55:56Apple has questioned Blaze Software smartphone browser benchmarks claiming that the Google's Android-based Nexus S ran 52 percent faster than the iPhone 4. Meanwhile, Android continued to lead iOS in Millennial Media's February smartphone ad impression stats, but has leveled off to 51 percent, dropping three points....Little signage PC offers dual-core CPU, HD video
Updated: 2011-03-18 13:06:09Ibase announced a compact digital signage PC with a dual-core AMD G-Series processor and a DVI-I output. Providing hardware video acceleration, the SI-18 has a 1.6GHz T56N processor, up to 2GB of RAM and 1TB of disk storage, gigabit Ethernet and a serial port, and a Mini PCI slot for optional Wi-Fi or Bluetooth, the company says....Stat dashboard shows app performance on Android Market
Updated: 2011-03-18 04:54:05Google released a new application-status dashboard for Android Market developers that charts program download numbers across various Android versions and devices. Meanwhile, Google released the latest stats from its previously released device dashboard, showing that Android 2.2 now represents 61 percent of all active Android devices....Retrieving the Collection of Enabled Grouped Products in Magento
Updated: 2011-03-11 15:15:37Retrieving the collection of enabled grouped products in Magento, programmatically. Also note that various options available.Bulk Copying Product Attributes in Magento
Updated: 2011-03-11 01:11:13This static method can copy attributes between products in Magento very fast and relatively secure. We are bypassing the main Magento architecture and accessing the Database directly, but notice we are using the Zend framework for the db query and we still use DB transactions. It accepts the source product ID (not SKU), destination product ID, the array of attribute codes ('size', 'color', 'name', etc.), and the attribute type ('varchar', 'int', etc.).