• PHPMaster.com: Localizing PHP Applications "The Right Way", Part 1

    Updated: 2011-10-31 13:38:25
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  • Community News: Latest PEAR Releases for 10.31.2011

    Updated: 2011-10-31 12:08:54
    Latest PEAR Releases: Net_LDAP2 2.0.12 File_IMC 0.4.3

  • Droid Razr goes on sale as Mot unveils Fire XT smartphone

    Updated: 2011-10-28 23:59:11
    Motorola Mobility and Verizon Wireless began selling the Droid Razr Android smartphone on pre-order for $300, with shipments promised by Nov. 10. Meanwhile, a 3.5-inch Motorola Fire XT Android smartphone was announced in Italy; Motorola Mobility announced strong third-quarter earnings of $3.3 billion; and more evidence piled up regarding an imminent release of two Motorola Xoom 2 tablets....

  • Google TV 2.0 gains Honeycomb, Android Market

    Updated: 2011-10-28 20:19:56
    Google unveiled Google TV 2.0, which will roll out on Sony TVs and Logitech Revue boxes Oct. 30. Featuring Android 3.1 (& Honeycomb& ), the upgrade includes a revamped interface featuring a new customizable home screen and app shortcuts, provides hundreds of Android Market apps, and offers improved search for TV and YouTube, says the company....

  • Red Hat certifies RHEL for Facebook's Open Compute Project

    Updated: 2011-10-28 16:58:29
    Red Hat joined Facebook's Open Compute Project, intended to open source the design and development of second-generation data centers for powering web and cloud services. Red Hat has certified Red Hat Enterprise Linux on the Open Compute specs, and will test RHEL and other software on Open Compute servers -- whose hardware specs have been contributed by AMD, Asus, Dell, and Intel....

  • Intel's Dirk Hohndel on 20 Years of Linux

    Updated: 2011-10-28 16:23:19
    Intel's Dirk Hohndel presented a retrospective on the history of the Linux kernel Thursday at LinuxCon Europe in Prague. Although the 20-year anniversary of Linux has been addressed many times over the course of 2011, Hohndel took his own approach, a personal perspective from a developer present at the beginning of the process and has stayed involved, in one way or other, since.

  • Ibuildings techPortal: PHPNW11 Conference Report - Part II

    Updated: 2011-10-28 16:15:27
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  • Red Hat Certifies RHEL for Facebook's Open Compute Project

    Updated: 2011-10-28 15:58:29
    Red Hat joined Facebook's Open Compute Project, intended to open source the design and development of second-generation data centers for powering web and cloud services. Red Hat has certified Red Hat Enterprise Linux on the Open Compute specs, and will test RHEL and other software on Open Compute servers --...

  • XpertDeveloper.com: Abstract in PHP

    Updated: 2011-10-28 15:55:07
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  • Canonical and Dell Push Ubuntu PCs Into China

    Updated: 2011-10-28 15:13:20
    Ubuntu has found some new horizons in China. In a post on Canonical's blog, it was announced that Canonical and Dell will bring PCs loaded with Ubuntu to the Chinese market. 

  • First Commercial OpenStack-Based Cloud Compute Service Announced

    Updated: 2011-10-28 15:09:00
    IT infrastructure provider Internap, one of the first companies to join up to the OpenStack project, has become the first to produce a commercially available cloud compute service based on the open source platform...

  • Russian Supercomputer Vendor RSC Group Joins PROSPECT

    Updated: 2011-10-28 15:06:00
    This week Russian supercomputer vendor RSC Group announced that it has joined PROSPECT (Promotion of Supercomputing Partnerships for European Competitiveness and Technology). 

  • Demand for Ruby, Hadoop and HTML5 Rockets, C Devs Still Best Paid

    Updated: 2011-10-28 15:01:26
    Demand for Ruby, Hadoop and HTML5 developers jumped this year, with jobs requiring those skills increasing 70 per cent compared to the same period in 2010, according to a survey of the tech jobs in London by recruiters Azuna. Azuna collated every tech job advertised for...

  • To the Surface: Great Open Source Projects That Don't Make the Headlines

    Updated: 2011-10-28 14:59:47
    If you're looking to expand your open source arsenal with some tools you've never heard of, here are some good resources. To begin with, here are a few OStatic posts rounding up highly interesting open source projects that you may not be familiar with: Maxima: Open Source Algebra on Steroids  ria2: ..

  • DZone.com: Closure Object Binding in PHP 5.4

    Updated: 2011-10-28 14:43:26
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  • How To Make Your Own (Almost) Chromebook

    Updated: 2011-10-28 14:35:25
    This HowTo lays out how to convert a regular netbook/laptop/desktop into an almost Google Chromebook using Hexxeh's Chromium OS build. All you need is a 2GB USB stick and a bit of time.  It also makes a nice portable operating system as well.

  • Red Hat Certifies RHEL for Facebook's Open Compute Systems

    Updated: 2011-10-28 14:30:00
    Red Hat has joined Facebook's Open Compute Project, which develops specifications for efficient data centres. The company's first step has been to have its Enterprise Linux version certified for the new systems...

  • PRACE Awards 721 Million CPU-Hours to Advance Science

    Updated: 2011-10-28 14:18:12
    Today the PRACE supercomputing consortium announced a grant of 721 million compute hours on Tier-0 systems to twenty-four European research projects. As an international non-profit, PRACE’ mission is enable high impact European scientific discovery and engineering research and development for the benefit of...

  • Two UEFI Secure Boot White Papers

    Updated: 2011-10-28 13:47:56
    Two white papers have been published on the subject of how the UEFI secure boot specification can be made to work with free operating systems. The first is Making UEFI Secure Boot Work With Open Platforms by James Bottomley and Jonathan Corbet; it is published by the Linux Foundation. "Linux and other open operating systems will be...

  • 10 Ways to Craft a Career That Will Stand the Test of Time

    Updated: 2011-10-28 13:38:49
    What does it take to craft a career that is likely to stand the test of time? In my new book The Shift: the future of work is already here, I talk a great deal about the five forces that will shape work and careers: 

  • Site News: Popular Posts for the Week of 10.28.2011

    Updated: 2011-10-28 13:03:22
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  • Linux-based payment device features NFC, color touchscreen

    Updated: 2011-10-28 05:25:59
    VeriFone Systems announced an Linux-based Point of Sale (POS) payment device that integrates a near field communication (NFC) contactless reader. The H5000 runs Linux on an ARM11 processor, offers a 3.5-inch color touchscreen, and supports multiple payment types-- including legacy magnetic stripe, EMV smartcards, and contactless cards -- with a single hybrid card slot, says the company....

  • All-in-one POS system has plenty of ports

    Updated: 2011-10-28 00:05:05
    Partner announced a POS (point of sale) system that incorporates a 15-inch resistive touchscreen and an Intel Atom D525 processor. The SP-800 offers an aluminum body, 4GB of RAM and a 2.5-inch drive bay, a bevy of ports, plus optional peripherals that include an MSR (magnetic stripe reader), 2 x 20 customer display, smart card reader, and more....

  • 64-bit ARMv8 architecture to debut in Applied Micro X Gene SoC

    Updated: 2011-10-27 23:48:11
    ARM has announced its ARMv8 architecture, featuring 64-bit instruction set support, extended virtual addressing, and backwards-compatible 32-bit support. Meanwhile, Applied Micro used the ARM TechCon event to demonstrate core functionality of its & world's first& ARMv8 implementation, the server-targeted X-Gene -- touted as featuring 28nm fabrication, up to 128 cores, 3GHz clock rates, 300mW standby consumption, and 64-bit Linux support....

  • Cortex-A9/FPGA combo SoC gains open source Linux platform

    Updated: 2011-10-27 20:49:19
    Xilinx launched an open source Linux platform and developer community for its Zynq-7000 Extensible Processing Platform (EPP), which combines a dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor and a 28nm FPGA. The Zynq-7000 EPP Linux Solution offers GNU toolchain, runtime libraries, and debuggers, plus options including a Virtual Platform hardware emulator based on Cadence VSP....

  • Long Term Kernel Support for Consumer Devices

    Updated: 2011-10-27 18:01:29
    Different devices have different needs. Development moves fast in the Linux kernel, but that rate of change isn't appropriate for shipping products. Enterprise distributions have solved the problem with stable kernels supported for a longer lifespan, but what about companies shipping consumer devices with Linux kernels? The Linux Foundation Consumer Electronics Workgroup now has those covered.

  • Padraic Brady's Blog: Interfacing The PHP World Would Be Good

    Updated: 2011-10-27 17:36:30
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  • Intel SNB RC6 On Linux 3.1 Is Both Good & Bad

    Updated: 2011-10-27 17:29:10
    As a follow-up to this morning's Linux 3.1 Enhances Sandy Bridge, Preps For Ivy Bridge article that looked at the Intel SNB graphics performance with the new Linux 3.1 kernel, here's a look at the power consumption when enabling RC6...

  • 'Bare Metal' Linux gains data plane chops

    Updated: 2011-10-27 16:39:27
    MontaVista Software has updated the MontaVista Linux & Bare Metal Engine& distribution with dynamically configurable data plane features. Bare Metal Engine (BME) offers a single development environment that can scale from high embedded Linux services down to the & near zero overhead& bare metal environments used in network packet processing, the company says....

  • PHP.net: PHP 5.4 beta2 released

    Updated: 2011-10-27 16:12:59
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  • Google Open Sources JavaScript Coverage Analysis Tool

    Updated: 2011-10-27 14:14:00
    Google has released ScriptCover, its JavaScript coverage analysis tool for Chrome, as open source under Apache Licence 2.0. The Chrome extension provides real-time line-by-line code coverage statistics for web pages...

  • Killing DRM Graphics Cruft With Fire

    Updated: 2011-10-27 11:40:29
    It seems to be a good time to clean-up the Linux graphics driver stack. After old hardware support was dropped in Mesa in August, more Mesa code was dropped, and most recently the classic ATI R300/R600 drivers are to be killed (this is set to happen this Friday). Now Intel's...

  • Mozilla Delivers Binged-up Firefox Browser

    Updated: 2011-10-27 11:29:04
    Mozilla has released a customised version of Firefox that defaults to Microsoft's Bing.…...

  • New on the Site: User-Influenced Home Page

    Updated: 2011-10-27 11:00:00
    We spend a lot of time seeking the open source stories that you enjoy—which doesn't leave much time for site enhancements. But we're always looking for ways to improve our communities' experience. And we're happy to provide a brief update on a few things recently implemented.

  • Video: Archaeologists Leveraging HPC to Preserve the Past

    Updated: 2011-10-27 10:53:09
    In this video, Adam Rabinowitz and his team work with supercomputer experts at TACC to develop high-tech, digital solutions to preserve ancient sites. Today, archaeologists are more likely to take hundreds of digital photos, notate the information in a spreadsheet on a laptop, and record careful geographically referenced information...

  • LinuxCon Europe: Live Video Streaming

    Updated: 2011-10-27 10:18:00
    For those not able to attend this year's LinuxCon Europe conference, currently taking place in Prague, the Linux Foundation is offering live video streaming of all the keynote sessions...

  • Linux 3.1 Enhances Sandy Bridge, Preps For Ivy Bridge

    Updated: 2011-10-27 08:00:01
    The Linux 3.1 kernel was released earlier this week and it further enhances the Intel Sandy Bridge graphics support while also prepping the open-source kernel driver for Intel's next-generation Ivy Bridge processors.

  • Joshua Thijssen's Blog: LAMP-stack? Forget it! It's a LAMPGMVNMCSTRAH-stack now...

    Updated: 2011-10-27 06:49:12
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  • HP will announce ARM-based servers next month, reports claim

    Updated: 2011-10-27 05:44:55
    HP plans to use ARM-based processors in some of its data center servers, according to a pair of Oct. 26 reports. The CPUs in question will apparently be quad-core Cortex-A9 SoCs (systems on chip), expected to be introduced by Calxeda on Nov. 1....

  • eWEEK goes 'all in' with digital

    Updated: 2011-10-27 02:10:27
    eWEEK magazine announced that its content will soon be available via apps written for Windows Phone 7, Android, and iOS phones, plus other devices including iPad and Android tablets. The move by our sister publication will coincide with the discontinuation of a print version as of January 2012, according to parent company Ziff Davis Enterprise (ZDE)....

  • The State Of OpenGL 3.0 Support In Mesa

    Updated: 2011-10-27 00:22:32
    Last month during XDC2011 Chicago it was publicly talked about how Intel wants OpenGL 3.0 support in Mesa and ideally before year's end. But how's that goal coming?..

  • Oracle-Google Trial Postponed Until 2012

    Updated: 2011-10-27 00:05:00
    The responsible federal judge has divided the proposed trial into three phases: to deal first with the copyright claims, then with the patent claims and finally with all remaining aspects such as damages and wilfulness...

  • How Sweet Is Ice Cream Sandwich?

    Updated: 2011-10-27 00:00:00
    It's no secret that Linux fans tend to be fiercely proud of Android, representing as it does Linux's biggest consumer-focused success so far. Excitement over the newly unveiled version 4.0 of Google's wildly popular mobile platform, however, just may be setting a new record. Buzz over the latest iteration is...

  • Walmart sells Samsung 4G phone for $30 plus contract, $200 without

    Updated: 2011-10-26 23:08:25
    T-Mobile announced the Samsung Exhibit II 4G, a 3.7-inch Android 2.3 smartphone selling for just $30 with a two-year contract or $200 without, making it the first no-contract 4G smartphone to be sold at most Walmart stores. Meanwhile, eWEEK reviewed T-Mobile's version of the Samsung Galaxy S II, finding it to be on par with the Sprint and AT T versions but priced $30 higher....

  • Oracle Debuts NoSQL Database

    Updated: 2011-10-26 22:40:54
    Developers can now download Oracle's first NoSQL offering.

  • The Kernel Panel at LinuxCon Europe

    Updated: 2011-10-26 22:31:03
    Linux users got a rare opportunity to hear directly from the hackers at the core of the Linux kernel on Wednesday at LinuxCon Europe. Read on for more on the state of ARM in the Linux kernel, the need for new kernel contributors, and the death of the Big Kernel Lock (BKL).

  • $179 Android tablet features full-sized USB port, microSD slot

    Updated: 2011-10-26 21:30:57
    Leader International announced two Android tablets, both with full-sized USB ports and microSD slots. The $179 Impression 7 (I7) runs Android 2.2 on a 1GHz processor, and provides a seven-inch 800 x 480 resistive touchscreen, while the $349 Impression 10 (I10) runs Android 2.3 on a 1GHz Samsung Hummingbird, adding a 9.7-inch, 1024 x 768 capacitive IPS touchscreen, an HDMI port, and a two-megapixel camera....

  • Yocto 1.1 embedded Linux stack adds GUI builder

    Updated: 2011-10-26 18:00:07
    The Linux Foundation announced Yocto Project Release 1.1, adding that it will host the Embedded GNU C Library (EGLIBC) and integrate it with Yocto. Based on Linux 3.0, Yocto 1.1 adds a GUI-based, customized image builder called & Hob,& plus layer tooling features, 3G cellular support, and small footprint, fast-boot layers....

  • Latest Neo4j NoSQL Release Takes Oracle Head-on

    Updated: 2011-10-26 18:00:00
    The open source NoSQL graph database that has perhaps attracted the most attention in recent months has been Neo4j, a Java-based DBMS with a RESTful API that supports multiple languages.  The open source NoSQL graph database that has perhaps attracted the most attention in recent months has been Neo4j, a Java-based DBMS with a RESTful API that supports multiple languages.  Read more at ReadWriteWeb Hack

  • LinuxCon Europe: Yocto Project Release 1.1 Announced

    Updated: 2011-10-26 17:09:00
    The latest version of the Yocto Project brings Hob, a graphical tool to aid the new-to-Linux embedded developer create the Linux platform they need...

  • Yocto 1.1 Embedded Linux Stack Adds GUI Builder

    Updated: 2011-10-26 17:00:07
    The Linux Foundation announced Yocto Project Release 1.1, adding that it will host the Embedded GNU C Library (EGLIBC) and integrate it with Yocto. Based on Linux 3.0, Yocto 1.1 adds a GUI-based, customized image builder called & Hob,& plus layer tooling features, 3G cellular support, and small footprint, fast-boot...

  • IBM Names First Female CEO

    Updated: 2011-10-26 16:53:59
    Nokia shows off its first Windows Phone handsets, Amazon's Kindle Fire is in hot demand, and Big Blue appoints Virginia Rometty as its new CEO.

  • Consumer electronics manufacturers agree on long-term Linux kernel

    Updated: 2011-10-26 16:36:57
    The Linux Foundation announced a Long Term Support Initiative (LTSI) project created by its Consumer Electronics (CE) workgroup, intended to reduce duplication of effort in maintaining private industry kernel trees. The LTSI project intends to deliver an annual release of a Linux kernel suitable for supporting the lifespan of consumer electronics products and regular updates of those releases for two to three years....

  • Six Essential Drupal Modules for Business

    Updated: 2011-10-26 16:07:09
    Drupal, one of the most popular open source content management systems (CMS) in the market, powers all kinds of wesbites, from personal blogs to message boards to corporate portals that cater to thousands of users. 

  • jEdit: a Text Editor and More

    Updated: 2011-10-26 15:56:36
    jEdit is a cross-platform text editor written in Java. 

  • LinuxCon Europe Debuts to Standing Room Only Crowd

    Updated: 2011-10-26 15:45:59
    With flashing cameras and a crowd that flowed into the lobby where attendees could watch the keynotes on large screens, LinuxCon Europe debuted with an appearance by Linux creator Linus Torvalds and hundreds of Linux community members...

  • Consumer Electronics Manufacturers Agree on Long-Term Linux Kernel

    Updated: 2011-10-26 15:36:57
    The Linux Foundation announced a Long Term Support Initiative (LTSI) project created by its Consumer Electronics (CE) workgroup, intended to reduce duplication of effort in maintaining private industry kernel trees. The LTSI project intends to deliver an annual release of a Linux kernel suitable for supporting the lifespan of consumer...

  • Ubuntu Community Survey Next Steps: Enhancing Recognition and Credit

    Updated: 2011-10-26 15:34:36
    Sorry folks, this is a little longer than I would like, but it covers some important points which I am keen to hear your views and ideas on. One pattern of feedback outlined in the survey was a desire by some respondents to see better recognition and credit for the contributions that they make to the community. 

  • On Governing Open Source, and Staying on the Right Side of the Law

    Updated: 2011-10-26 15:07:20
    Two years ago at the Open Source Business Conference (OSBC) Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst predicted that in only a few years, 100 percent of major business software platforms and applications would incorporate open source components.

  • Some Analysts Still Don't Get It

    Updated: 2011-10-26 15:06:09
    In the early days of Linux, analysts were spouting all kinds of nonsense about Linux. It was pretty clear that folks from firms like Forrester and Gartner weren't clued in entirely about what Linux is, how open source works, nor did they have any vision for the future.

  • Panel PC adds webcam, dual expansion slots

    Updated: 2011-10-25 22:54:57
    IEI announced an Intel Atom-powered panel PC that includes two expansion slots and a & burglar-proof& internal USB 2.0 port. The PPC-5152-D525 has a 15-inch screen, a 1.3-megapixel webcam, a 2.5-inch drive bay and a CompactFlash slot, dual gigabit Ethernet ports, plus five serial ports, according to the company....

  • Android leads iOS in app downloads and ad impressions, say studies

    Updated: 2011-10-25 22:52:37
    Android is beating Apple's iOS in app downloads by 44 percent to 31 percent, according to ABI Research. Meanwhile, Millenial Media's latest figures show Android with 56 percent of total mobile ad impressions compared to 28 percent for iOS, and a trio of tablet studies finds that while the iPad's still dominating, Android's on the rise....

  • Rugged computers feature three or five gigabit ports

    Updated: 2011-10-25 20:48:00
    Logic Supply announced two fanless, barebone & Neousys& industrial computers with extended temperature support, shock/vibration resistance, and support for Intel Core i5/i7 or Celeron processors. The Nuvo-1003B offers three gigabit Ethernet ports while the Nuvo-1005 supplies five, and both provide a variety of I/O, including six USB 2.0 ports, the company says....

  • SoC teams Cortex-A5 app processor with Cortex-M4 MCU

    Updated: 2011-10-25 18:34:11
    Freescale Semiconductor announced a system on chip (SoC) platform, combining a Linux-ready ARM Cortex-A5 application processor with a Cortex-M4 microcontroller intended to run a real-time operating system (RTOS). The company's unnamed & asymmetrical-multiprocessing-architecture& SoC features a wide range of peripherals, and is designed to enable simultaneous real-time control and graphics-rich application processing, primarily in industrial applications....

  • Marc Hamilton’s Unofficial Guide to SC11

    Updated: 2011-10-25 15:28:43
    Marc Hamilton has posted an Unofficial Guide to SC11 with registration links for the following events

  • Martha Kanter and Jim Shelton of the US Department of Education open the 2011 Open Education ...

    Updated: 2011-10-25 15:24:41
    Martha Kanter, Undersecretary of Education in the US Department of Education, gave today's opening keynote at the 2011 Open Education Conference in Park City, UT, followed by Jim Shelton, the Assistant Deputy Secretary for Innovation and Improvement.

  • Big-Box Science

    Updated: 2011-10-25 15:22:12
    A few months ago, I wrote a piece about how you can use MPI to run a parallel program over a number of machines that are networked together. But more and more often, your plain-old desktop has more than one CPU. How best can you take advantage of the amount...

  • Canonical Bringing New Digital Media Offerings to Ubuntu

    Updated: 2011-10-25 15:10:23
    More changes are afoot for Ubuntu. This week, we covered how the next version of Ubuntu due in April, will have many features designed to appeal to IT administrators, including beefed up cloud capabilities.

  • The Staging Merge For Linux 3.2 Kernel Is Huge

    Updated: 2011-10-25 15:10:16
    Linus Torvalds was worried that the Linux 3.2 kernel might be of a worrying size due to the belated release of Linux 3.1. Merge requests are now starting to come in for the Linux 3.2 kernel and the staging merge alone touches several hundred thousand lines of code...

  • TYPO3 4.6 Adds Form Editor and XLIFF Support

    Updated: 2011-10-25 15:04:00
    Version 4.6 of the open source content management system adds native support for the XLIFF localisation format and a new Form content element for generating forms, as well as performance improvements in the Caching Framework introduced in Typo3 4.3...

  • Linux Desktop Faceoff: GNOME 3 vs Ubuntu Unity

    Updated: 2011-10-25 15:00:00
    The popular Linux distribution Ubuntu recently finalized its move to the new Unity interface, while other Linux distributions are moving to the new GNOME 3 shell. Both interfaces are remarkably different than the Linux environments you're used to, but remarkably similar to one another. So which one is better for...

  • ARM will detail Cortex-A7 at this week's TechCon

    Updated: 2011-10-25 14:58:09
    ARM is set to provide an in-depth look at its recently announced Cortex-A7 processor this week at a Santa Clara, Calif.-based event. Other highlights of ARM TechCon 2011, scheduled for Oct. 25 to 27, will include a keynote by ARM CTO Mike Muller, and a demonstration of a $25 ARM11-based Ubuntu Linux computer from Raspberry Pi....

  • How To Migrate Mailboxes Between IMAP Servers With IMAP TOOLS

    Updated: 2011-10-25 14:20:57
    This guide explains how you can migrate mailboxes between IMAP servers with IMAP TOOLS. IMAP TOOLS is a collection of Perl scripts that allow you to do various tasks with IMAP servers and also POP3 servers. In this article I...

  • Puppy Linux 5.3 "Slacko" based on Slackware 13.37

    Updated: 2011-10-25 14:20:00
    The Puppy Linux developers have released the first version of a new edition of their Linux distribution. Based on Slackware 13.37, Slacko Puppy is the project's "new flagship Puppy Linux" and the recommended version for all newcomers...

  • ARM Will Detail Cortex-A7 at This Week's TechCon

    Updated: 2011-10-25 13:58:09
    ARM is set to provide an in-depth look at its recently announced Cortex-A7 processor this week at a Santa Clara, Calif.-based event. Other highlights of ARM TechCon 2011, scheduled for Oct. 25 to 27, will include a keynote by ARM CTO Mike Muller, and a demonstration of a $25 ARM11-based...

  • $200 Android tablet offers dual cameras, micro-HDMI

    Updated: 2011-10-24 23:26:32
    ViewSonic has begun selling a $200, seven-inch tablet that runs Android 2.3. The ViewPad 7e is equipped with a 1GHz Cortex-A8 processor, 4GB internal storage, 800 x 600 pixel screen resolution, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, dual cameras, and a micro-HDMI port, says the company....

  • OCZ unveils 'first' 2.5-inch SSD with 1TB, plus PCI Express-based hybrid

    Updated: 2011-10-24 23:24:53
    OCZ Technology announced what it claims is the first 2.5-inch SSD (solid state drive) to include up to 1TB of storage, with a SATA 3.0 version delivering reads at up to 560MB/sec. Also released was a PCI Express-based hard disk/SSD combo that also packs 1TB, but revs performance to 910MB/sec., according to the company....

  • Microsoft signs up Compal in patent deal, claims to get cut from half of all Android devices

    Updated: 2011-10-24 21:30:01
    Microsoft has signed a patent agreement with $28 billion Taiwanese original device manufacturer (ODM) Compal Electronics. With this tenth Android agreement, over half of all Android devices are now being made by companies that have signed Android-related licensing pacts with Microsoft, claims the company....

  • Low-profile PC runs OS from CompactFlash

    Updated: 2011-10-24 21:15:45
    Contec announced a fanless box PC intended for embedded applications, with a height of just 1.4 inches. The BX-956 includes an Intel Atom D510 processor, two CompactFlash slots, two gigabit Ethernet ports, four USB 2.0 ports, plus a VGA port and a serial port, according to the company....

  • Linux 3.1 released with NFC support

    Updated: 2011-10-24 18:15:11
    Released several weeks late due to malware attacks on kernel.org in August, the Linux 3.1 kernel is out now, with a variety of enhancements to performance, virtualization, and power management. It also includes support for near field communication (NFC), the OpenRISC open source CPU, Nintendo's Wii controller, and 3D acceleration with Nvidia GEForce graphics processor units (GPUs)....

  • A Look at Linux 3.1

    Updated: 2011-10-24 18:14:46
    Just three months after the Linux kernel pushed the odometer past the 3.0 milestone, Linus Torvalds has pushed out another stable kernel. The 3.1 Linux kernel has several new features, additional hardware support, and a little help for programs that were hard-wired for the 2.6.x numbering scheme.

  • Casio brings Android to Point-of-Sale terminals

    Updated: 2011-10-24 16:42:58
    Casio Computer announced an Android 2.2-based Point-of-Sale (POS) terminal built around a 533MHz dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor. The VX-100 business support terminal offers a 10.4-inch, 800 x 600 touchscreen, a secondary 2 x 20 subdisplay, a thermal printer, a sales management application, and the ability to be remotely controlled via email....

  • Guest Blog: On the Lighter Side – Help Disguise the Pengroid

    Updated: 2011-10-24 15:18:38
      We want to share with the Linux.com community and members of the wider Linux community a fun little contest we’e created that will hopefully get your creative juices flowing and give you an opportunity to step away, unplug and have some fun over the next 30 days or so. The contest is designed around something we call the “Pengroid.”

  • Git Tutorial: Branching and Merging

    Updated: 2011-10-24 15:05:10
    One of the most compelling features of the Git version control system (VCS) is its ability to create highly usable and lightweight branches, and the ease of merging those branches later. Branching creates multiple “copies” of the same repository and allows you to separate out a set of changes while you experiment with them, or to create different versions of a project, without affecting the main tree.

  • The Belated Linux 3.1 Kernel Is Released

    Updated: 2011-10-24 11:04:02
    In the early hours of the morning, Linus Torvalds tagged the Linux 3.1 kernel final...

  • The 3.1 Kernel is Out

    Updated: 2011-10-24 10:51:59
    Linus released the 3.1 kernel while sitting in the security session at the Kernel Summit; he has not yet gotten around to sending an announcement, though. Headline features in this somewhat delayed release include improved Xen memory management, enhancements to process tracing (the PTRACE_SEIZE command), enhancements to lseek() to ease...

  • Intel Publishes New Wayland Documents

    Updated: 2011-10-24 10:50:06
    Intel's Juan Zhao has written and published some new documents on Wayland. In particular, a step-by-step guide for building and setting up Wayland under Ubuntu 11.04 and also a document briefly going over the Wayland architecture and API...

  • New Roadmap for Mageia 2 Published

    Updated: 2011-10-24 09:19:00
    Version 2.0 of the Mandriva Linux community fork will be "delayed a bit" so that the project can include the most current stable versions of other major projects, such as GNOME and KDE...

  • Video: The Data and Computer-Driven Transformation of Modern Science

    Updated: 2011-10-24 07:11:59
    In this video, Edward Seidel, assistant director for mathematics and physical sciences at the National Science Foundation describes how information technology is transforming research. Presented at Georgia State on Oct. 14, 2011, Seidel’ presentation covers the evolution of supercomputing, high-speed networking, data storage and software development on a national level.

  • Ubuntu Community Survey Results

    Updated: 2011-10-24 06:24:29
    Earlier this month some concerns were expressed in a Community Council meeting about some aspects of the Ubuntu community experience. 

  • Oracle to Acquire RightNow for $1.5 billion

    Updated: 2011-10-24 00:58:31
    The database giant is jumping into the cloud customer service game via its acquisition of RightNow. The deal is aimed at the heart of Salesforce.com.

  • Linux 3.1 is Here

    Updated: 2011-10-24 00:57:00
    After a longer than usual gestation time, due to the compromise of kernel.org, Linux 3.1 has been released. Support for new NVIDIA chips and enhanced KVM and Xen virtualisation are among the prominent improvements.

  • First Release Candidate for FreeBSD 9.0 Arrives

    Updated: 2011-10-24 00:54:00
    Following several delays, the FreeBSD project has published the first release candidate for version 9.0 of its operating system. Aimed at testers, developers and early adopters, the developers ask users to test the new installer by doing fresh installations...

  • Oracle Buys Cloud-based Customer Service Company RightNow For $1.5 Billion

    Updated: 2011-10-24 00:08:54
    Oracle this morning announced that it has acquired RightNow – both companies are listed on NASDAQ – for $43 per share or roughly $1.5 billion net of RightNow’ cash and debt. With the acquisition, Oracle is adding a robust cloud-based customer service offering to its own Public Cloud solution. 

  • Qt spins off as open source project

    Updated: 2011-10-21 23:39:08
    Nokia is re-spinning its Qt project as an independent open source project, promising that cross-platform development framework code will be simultaneously available to Nokia and to the open source community. More details on the new project will emerge at the Qt Developer Days events, scheduled for Oct. 24-26 in Munich and Nov. 29 to Dec. 1 in San Francisco....

  • Google reveals development hiccups in transitioning to 'Ice Cream Sandwich'

    Updated: 2011-10-21 22:46:13
    Google announced that ongoing changes to some undocumented aspects of the Android 4.0 (& Ice Cream Sandwich& ) build -- related to calendar and text-to-speech functions -- could cause some problems for developers. Meanwhile, several smartphone vendors have promised support for Android 4.0, while analysts explore the release in greater detail....

  • Compact PC sports three Mini PCI slots

    Updated: 2011-10-21 22:10:48
    Norco announced a fanless, ultra-compact PC that can simultaneously support Wi-Fi and dual 3G cellular modems. The BIS-6625 includes a choice of Intel Atom E6xx processors, dual Ethernet ports, five USB ports, and room for an SATA-interfaced hard disk drive or SSD (solid state disk), according to the company....

  • Via's Nano leaps to the Qseven format

    Updated: 2011-10-21 19:10:41
    Arbor announced a Qseven module that employs Via's 1.0GHz Nano U3500 processor. The Emq-v900 has 1GB of soldered-on DDR3 memory, two SATA ports, eight USB 2.0 ports, gigabit Ethernet, and multiple video outputs, the company says....

  • Google Reveals New Android ICS APIs

    Updated: 2011-10-21 11:33:00
    Unofficial APIs and techniques for accessing Calendars and Text-to-Speech are being replaced in the new Android release with official, supported APIs...

  • Is it Time to Rethink Power and Efficiency for Exascale?

    Updated: 2011-10-21 11:00:35
    Intel’ Winston Saunders writes that it may be time to rethink supercomputing metrics for Exascale.

  • GNOME 3.2.1 Carries First 3.2 Bug Fixes

    Updated: 2011-10-21 09:37:00
    The first bug fix update for GNOME 3.2 is now available, while the GNOME developers are creating their plans for GNOME 3.4...

  • OpenELEC 1.0: Fast-Booting XBMC Media Centre OS

    Updated: 2011-10-21 09:22:00
    OpenELEC is a fast-booting, self-updating embedded Linux operating system "built from scratch" to run the open source XBMC Media Center. It requires less than 130 MB of space to install and can fully boot in less than 10 seconds...

  • NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti

    Updated: 2011-10-21 08:10:01
    For those Linux gamers and other desktop users currently looking for a new mid-range (sub-$150 USD) graphics card, up for review today is a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti. The GF116 Fermi graphics processor for the GTX 550 Ti has 192 CUDA cores, 900MHz core clock, 24 ROPs, 32 texture...

  • Moving Files Between Linux Systems With SCP

    Updated: 2011-10-21 07:36:02
    This article is about how to move files between servers using the scp (secure copy) command. To show how it works, I will move files from my HDD to a virtual machine running on VirtualBox. There is Linux Mint 11 installed on both...

  • Video: How to Use a Supercomputer

    Updated: 2011-10-21 07:16:35
    In this video, Mike Pingleton and Andrew Tudor answer the question: How do researchers from across the country use NCSA’ supercomputers for astronomy, biology, chemistry, physics, and a host of other challenges?

  • Mandriva 2011 Powerpack is Coming

    Updated: 2011-10-21 06:00:00
    With Mandriva's new management and focus and considering their last release versions, one might have wondered if Mandriva Powerpacks would continue to be offered.

  • XBMC-based embedded Linux distro debuts on HTPC mini-PC

    Updated: 2011-10-21 05:49:53
    The OpenELEC project released an embedded Linux OS designed to run the open source XBMC Media Center home theater PC (HTPC) software on x86 PCs. OpenELEC 1.0 offers a footprint of just 80-130 MB, boots in less than 10 seconds, and is available pre-installed on the Xtreamer Ultra -- a mini-PC based on an Intel Atom D525 and Nvidia Ion GPU....

  • PICMG 1.3 card supports Intel's Sandy Bridge range

    Updated: 2011-10-21 05:49:22
    IEI announced a full-size PICMG CPU card that supports Intel's & Sandy Bridge& Core i7, i5, i3, Pentium, and Celeron processors. The PCIE-Q670 offers up to 16GB of RAM, a Mini PCI Express slot, dual 6Gbit/sec. and quad 3.Gbit/sec. SATA ports with RAID support, and optional support for dual displays....

  • The Qt Project Is Now Live

    Updated: 2011-10-21 00:45:02
    Nokia has announced this morning that the Qt Project is now live, which means as of today Qt will be governed as a "true open-source project."..

  • Community Spotlight: Scott Nesbitt, Contributor to FLOSS Manuals

    Updated: 2011-10-21 00:00:00
    Meet Scott Nesbitt. He's a freelance writer and consultant in Toronto, Canada. He uses open source tools for more than 85 percent of the work he does. He's idealistic about more getting more open data from our governments. Nesbitt also contributes to FLOSS Manuals (FLOSS stands for Free/Libre open source...

  • Sprint debuts $100 Android phones from Motorola and HTC

    Updated: 2011-10-20 23:21:38
    Sprint unveiled two $100 Android 2.3 smartphones with 1.2GHz processors. The rugged Motorola Admiral offers a 3.1-inch screen and exposed keyboard, and operates on Sprint's Direct Connect push-to-talk network, and the HTC Evo Design 4G is a four-inch & worldphone& that supports Sprint's 4G WiMAX network....

  • Pico-ITX board has Module I/O expansion interface

    Updated: 2011-10-20 22:45:19
    Advantech announced a Pico-ITX board that sports the company's own MIO (Module I/O) expansion interface as well as a half-size Mini PCI Express slot. The MIO-2260 has a 1.66GHz Intel Atom N455 processor, up to 2GB of RAM, a CompactFlash slot, and the ability to drive both VGA and LVDS displays, according to the company....

  • Quad-core automotive SoC adds real-time engine for augmented reality

    Updated: 2011-10-20 21:09:47
    Renesas announced a new member of its R-Car series of automotive systems on chip (SoCs). The R-Car H1 has four ARM Cortex-A9 cores clocked at 1GHz, offering up to 11,650 Dhrystone MIPS (DMIPS) performance, plus a Imagination Technologies' SGX-543-MP2 graphics processing unit (GPU) and an optional real-time multimedia engine (MME) based on Renesas' SH4A core....

  • High-end thin clients run SUSE Linux on AMD processors

    Updated: 2011-10-20 19:59:21
    Wyse announced what it claims to be the industry's fastest thin clients using SUSE Linux. Using AMD's single-core T52R clocked at 1.5GHz or dual-core T56N clocked at 1.6GHz, the Z50 is a desktop device whose features include DVI-I and DisplayPort video outputs, while the X50m is a mobile thin client that apparently combines an AMD CPU with a 14-inch display....

  • 7 Years of Ubuntu: Ubuntu Then and Now

    Updated: 2011-10-20 17:38:55
    Today marks seven years since Mark Shuttleworth announced Ubuntu 4.10. Dubbed "Warty Warthog," Ubuntu 4.10 was a major departure from other Linux distros at the time. Seven years, and 15 releases, has brought a lot of change. Let's take a look at how Ubuntu has grown from the new kid on the block to one of the most popular Linux distributions ever.

  • Ubuntu-based netbook hits South Africa at $188

    Updated: 2011-10-20 16:36:15
    Vodacom announced an Ubuntu Linux-based netbook for the developing world, to be initially be launched in South Africa for $188. The Vodafone Webbook offers a 10-inch screen, 512MB of RAM and 4GB of storage, a Vodacom SIM card slot, and a weight less than 2.2 pounds, says the mobile provider....

  • Seven Years Old

    Updated: 2011-10-20 16:15:31
    Seven years ago Ubuntu 4.10, the Warty Warthog, was released. It was the very first Ubuntu release. I remember when it came out, feeling like this was the right step forward for Linux and Free Software. While the technology looked awesome (removable USB with automatic mounting, woo!), and it was...

  • Serving CGI Scripts With Nginx On CentOS 6.0

    Updated: 2011-10-20 16:06:53
    This tutorial shows how you can serve CGI scripts (Perl scripts) with nginx on CentOS 6.0. While nginx itself does not serve CGI, there are several ways to work around this. I will outline two solutions: the first is to proxy requests...

  • IcedTea 2.0 Based on JDK7 – Without CACAO

    Updated: 2011-10-20 15:37:00
    Version 2.0 of the JDK build environment, IcedTea, has been published. It is based on JDK7 but (temporarily) has to do without the CACAO virtual machine...

  • Ubuntu-Based Netbook Hits South Africa at $188

    Updated: 2011-10-20 15:36:15
    Vodacom announced an Ubuntu Linux-based netbook for the developing world, to be initially be launched in South Africa for $188. The Vodafone Webbook offers a 10-inch screen, 512MB of RAM and 4GB of storage, a Vodacom SIM card slot, and a weight less than 2.2 pounds, says the mobile provider....

  • Ubuntu Celebrates its Seventh Birthday

    Updated: 2011-10-20 15:29:00
    Seven years ago, Mark Shuttleworth mailed the ubuntu-announce mailing list to tell the world the first edition of Ubuntu Linux was ready...

  • Is It Okay for Android to Be "Almost" Open Source?

    Updated: 2011-10-20 14:54:40
    This week marked the arrival of the "Ice Cream Sandwich" latest version of the Android mobile operating system on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus phone, which looks great and is getting great reviews.

  • Jump-Starting Open Source Participation

    Updated: 2011-10-20 14:49:44
    One of the great things about being The Linux Foundation is that we get to work with the foremost open source contributors in the world on a regular basis. What's just as exciting, though, is watching companies evolve from traditional, closed source development organizations into full-fledged open source contributors. This is happening every day, and the pace is astounding.

  • Ubuntu Daddy Bets on Desktop Polish, ARM Clouds

    Updated: 2011-10-20 14:01:10
    Ubuntu fans are being coaxed into accepting a new emphasis on design in the next desktop release and breaking the umbilical link to old server hardware for the cloud.…...

  • Android Trending Up in Enterprises

    Updated: 2011-10-20 14:00:00
    The folks at Good Technology have released their latest report analyzing the trends in tablet and smartphone activations using their software, and the results show a trend towards greater Android adoption in corporations, although a still overwhelming use of Apple devices. We last covered these reports from Good here earlier...

  • XBMC-Focused OpenELEC 1.0 Released

    Updated: 2011-10-20 11:36:15
    After reportedly being in development for two years, OpenELEC 1.0 has been officially released...

  • Kobo spins its first color Android e-reader

    Updated: 2011-10-20 05:35:54
    Kobo announced a $200 Android 2.3 tablet with a seven-inch, 1024 x 600 pixel AFFS+ anti-glare display. The Kobo Vox eReader features an 800MHz processor, 512MB of RAM, 8GB of internal storage, a microSD slot, Wi-Fi, and access to the Kobo eBook Store, says the company....

  • Sabayon Linux 7 "Core" Editions Released

    Updated: 2011-10-20 00:23:00
    The Sabayon project has released four new "Core" editions of version 7 of its Linux distribution: SpinBase, CoreCDX, ServerBase and OpenVZ. The Core releases are aimed at advanced users who want to have full control over the features and packages they install...

  • Credit-card-sized module allows choice of I/O controller

    Updated: 2011-10-19 20:21:09
    Advantech announced a COM Express Ultra module that employs Intel Atom E6xx processors and is able to work with third-party I/O controllers. The SOM-7564 has 1GB of soldered on memory, is offered with clock speeds ranging from 600MHz to 1.6GHz, supports dual displays, and has three PCI Express x1 expansion interfaces, according to the company....

  • Galaxy Nexus boasts Android 4.0, 1280 x 720 resolution

    Updated: 2011-10-19 19:00:25
    Samsung announced the first device equipped with Android 4.0 (& Ice Cream Sandwich& ). The & Galaxy Nexus& offers a 1.2GHz dual-core processor, a 4.65-inch display with an impressive resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels, an NFC (near field communication) chip, and compatibility with 4G LTE and HSPA+ networks....

  • Containers on Linux (Wim Coekaerts)

    Updated: 2011-10-19 17:49:55
    At Oracle OpenWorld we talked about Linux Containers. Here is an example of getting a Linux container going with Oracle Linux 6.1, UEK2 beta and btrfs. This is just an example, not released, production, bug-free... for those that don't read README files ;-)

  • Android 4.0 unveiled with new unified UI, face recognition

    Updated: 2011-10-19 16:56:10
    Google announced Android 4.0 (& Ice Cream Sandwich& ), a version of the mobile operating system that for the first time is optimized for both smartphones and tablets. Unveiled with a preliminary software development kit -- and due to appear first on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus -- it sports a revamped user interface, a faster browser, an improved camera interface, plus facial recognition and text-to-speech features....

  • Zend Floats PHP Cloud Development Platform

    Updated: 2011-10-19 11:34:05
    Zend has announced a cloud for building and deploying PHP apps on other clouds – but without the management hassle.…...

  • Canonical, Vodafone Bring ARM-based Ubuntu Netbook to South Africa

    Updated: 2011-10-19 11:00:00
    Canonical and Vodacom, the South African subsidiary of Vodafone, have announced the launch of the Vodafone WebBook, an ARM-based netbook running the Ubuntu Linux operating system, in South Africa...

  • Piwik 1.6 Fixes Security Vulnerability and Adds Enhanced Shop Analysis

    Updated: 2011-10-19 10:59:00
    Version 1.6 of the web analytics tool fixes a critical security vulnerability and adds price and product category analysis for shops...

  • Blender 2.60 Final Is Ready With Many Changes

    Updated: 2011-10-19 10:50:42
    The major Blender 2.60 release is ready to go and has been uploaded to the project's file server...

  • ScaleMP Delivers Record SPEC Cpu Results for AMD Opteron 6100 Series

    Updated: 2011-10-19 07:29:04
    This week ScaleMP announced that the company’ VSMP Foundation software delivers record SPEC benchmark performance for shared memory systems based on AMD processors.

  • Google Wallet expands discount and rewards program

    Updated: 2011-10-19 01:06:27
    Google has opened up the SingleTap payment system in its Google Wallet service, allowing consumers to pay for goods and redeem discounts and rewards in a single near field communication (NFC) transaction. Meanwhile, ABI Research forecasts that 78 percent of NFC-enabled handsets will ship with an embedded secure solution in 2016, and almost half will offer multiple secure elements....

  • Free Software Foundation: Windows 8 secure boot requirement could lock out Linux

    Updated: 2011-10-19 00:55:33
    The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has launched a campaign claiming that Windows 8-certified PCs might prevent users from booting into Linux. The mandatory & secure boot& facility in the systems' Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) might better be called & restricted boot,& the organization claims....

  • The Android 4.0 SDK Available

    Updated: 2011-10-19 00:35:19
    The Android 4.0 software development kit is now available for download; source code will seemingly have to wait for a while longer yet. The Android 4.0 platform highlights page has an overview of what's in this release for those who are interested. "Android 4.0 introduces a completely new approach to...

  • MeeGo Community Investigates Tizen Alternatives

    Updated: 2011-10-19 00:05:22
    Last month the Tizen project was announced with Intel and the Linux Foundation transitioning their support from MeeGo to Tizen. The LiMo Foundation and Samsung are also joining the new mobile open-source OS project. However, many in the MeeGo community remain less than enthusiastic about this new Linux OS that...

  • SC11 Video Preview: Scaling Lattice QCD beyond 100 GPUs

    Updated: 2011-10-19 00:00:59
    In this video, Guochun Shi of NCSA’ Innovative Systems Laboratory previews his session at SC11: Scaling Lattice QCD beyond 100 GPUs.

  • MultiCopy for Firefox Copies Multiple Snippets of Text At Once

    Updated: 2011-10-19 00:00:00
    Firefox: If you've ever had to copy and paste parts of the same page into a new document, you know it can be annoying to copy once, paste, go back, copy again, paste, and repeat the process several times when you should be able to do it all once. That's...

  • Mini-ITX board offers G-Series chips, multiple ports

    Updated: 2011-10-18 23:11:02
    Advantech announced an industrial-grade Mini-ITX motherboard supporting AMD G-Series processors including the dual-core 1.65GHz T56N. The AIMB-223 board is equipped with up to 4GB of DDR3 SDRAM, plus PCI and PCI Express expansion, four SATA III interfaces with RAID support, and the usual mix of I/O including gigabit Ethernet, USB 2.0, and serial connections....

  • Atom-powered LAN appliance has ten ports

    Updated: 2011-10-18 21:56:17
    Axiomtek announced a rackmountable, 1U network appliance that uses Intel Atom D425 or D525 processors and provides ten gigabit Ethernet ports. The NA-330 includes both hard disk and CompactFlash storage, accepts up to 4GB of RAM, and has a PCI Express Mini Card expansion slot, the company says....

  • Conducting Clouds the Ubuntu Way: An Introduction to juju

    Updated: 2011-10-18 20:16:47
    Conducting Clouds the Ubuntu way Ubuntu 11.10 is an important step forward in cloud computing for the Ubuntu Project. With this release, we've introduced some new features that will help our users set up and manage cloud services. One of the most important features in this release is juju. Formally known as Ensemble, juju packages the intelligence of installing, configuring, and managing services. Let's take a look at what juju is, and what it can do for you.

  • Open Source Jobs: What's Hot, Where to Look, What to Learn

    Updated: 2011-10-18 18:51:50
    What does the future hold for eager, talented software developers, and people with related essential skill sets? The overriding trend, as in all industries, is you're on your own, chum. But free/open source software (FOSS) offers considerably more richness of opportunity than anything else. Let's peer into the crystal ball and see what the future holds.

  • openSUSE 12.1 Running Late

    Updated: 2011-10-18 18:51:04
    Originally scheduled to arrive today, 18 October, the first release candidate (RC1) for openSUSE 12.1 – the project's next major release – has been pushed back until Friday 21 October.

  • How Linuxy Is Android?

    Updated: 2011-10-18 18:50:19
    The world of Android is growing increasingly complicated. Soon Amazon will begin shipping its Fire, which includes a highly modified version of an old Android release. How free is the heart of Android? How much does its share with its free-spirited cousin Linux?

  • HTC Amaze 4G on T-Mobile: Great camera, but a battery vampire

    Updated: 2011-10-18 00:41:37
    T-Mobile's HTC Amaze 4G is worth considering by serious shutterbugs who want a phone that can replace their everyday point-and-shoot, according to this eWEEK review. But, reviewer Nicholas Kolawkowski adds, don't expect its battery to hold out all day....

  • 18.5-inch panel PC offers capacitive multitouch

    Updated: 2011-10-17 23:27:55
    Avalue announced an 18.5-inch panel PC with capacitive multitouch capabilities and a dual-core, 1.8GHz Intel Atom D525 processor. The APC-18W5 is equipped with 1 to 4GB of DDR3 SDRAM, features IP55 liquid protection plus a operating range, and offers SATA, CompactFlash, mini-PCIe, gigabit Ethernet, USB 2.0, and serial connectivity, says the company....

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