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In light of the blah-fest that will surely be Android 4.4 Kit Kat, we’re already looking forward to next year’s version of the OS with all the patience of a child on Christmas Eve. We’re due for a major version update, and we want it to be something that makes everyone sit up and take notice.

I've been doing professional Android development for more than four years. At the risk of receiving a plethora of scathing emails and possibly having my Android developer card revoked, I also admit to dabbling in iOS. A big difference I noted right away when I started looking at the Xcode documentation is that during normal iOS development the application runs on a simulator, not a true emulator. While this may sound like merely semantics, it's actually a distinction.

Austria’s Big Brother Awards has picked Ubuntu’s founder Mark Shuttleworth for the coveted Big Brother Award for their online extension to local searches.

Koush found a way to smoothly mirror the screen of an Android device in a browser window, a feature that could come in very handy for many users. The feature may be useful for playing games or consuming media on a large screen, provided the FPS rate is good enough. Koush didn’t provide any details on how he developed this presumably native functionality.

The browser-based version of Windows 1.01 is powered by PCjs, an IBM PC XT (Model 5160) emulator written in JavaScript. All major browsers support the emulator, including Safari on iOS and Chrome on Android. PCjs essentially emulates in software the entirety of the IBM PC ROM BIOS and MDA font ROM. The hardware of the emulated machine is highly configurable via XML — in the case of the Windows 1.01 machine, PCjs emulates the Intel 8088 CPU at 4.77MHz, 256KB of RAM, and CGA graphics. Rather than emulating the specific hardware features of the IBM PC XT, it seems that PCjs is mainly interested in emulating all of the features in IBM PC BIOS that Windows 1.01 makes calls to.

New software tools and a developer confab highlight Samsung's push to offer something different from all the other Android device makers. Think multiscreen.

It is fair to say that the Raspberry Pi is a success. I love them, you love them, the whole world loves them. It has reminded the rest of the computing world that the UK - and Cambridge especially - has a proud computing heritage.

A free, open-source, image editor, the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) has been a go-to tool for Linux users for years, but has a reputation for being hard to use and lacking many of Photoshop’s features. The reality has changed dramatically over the last couple years. GIMP now has a very competent user interface, as well as an extensive and powerful set of features.

Monday's update brings Android 4.3 Jelly Bean to the game device, and a new "console mode" turns Shield into a portable living-room game console.

Navigate the galaxy of apps in Google Play with this handy, carefully selected list of the 100 best Android apps.

The Wall Street Journal has done an in-depth preview of Samsung’s big developer conference that kicks off in San Francisco this week and has found that the company is encouraging developers to make apps that are “more than just Android” as it seeks to create a hefty suite of Samsung-centric software that rival Android manufacturers won’t be able to top.

This update on a popular list reveals a changing relationship between proprietary and open source software, due to cloud computing's influence.

Learn to write bash scripts in Linux which support multitasking asynchronous execution, and running PHP scripts from the terminal.

So you’ve got an idea for an app? For those aspiring to occupy a small portion of digital real estate in the pockets of countless smartphone users, this is an important step. But before the first line of code can be written or the IPO is filled, there is another equally important consideration which must be made. “Which platform do I develop for?” While the answer seems fairly obvious to those of us who frequent this particular online destination, the decision to develop for one platform over another can weigh on more than just your heartstrings. So why do developers choose Android?

Greetings fellow Linux users, and welcome to the second part of our glorious OpenVPN series. When last we met we learned how to set up a simple OpenVPN encrypted tunnel between a home server and a remote node, such as a laptop. Today we're adding refinements such as how to daemonize OpenVPN so we don't have to start it manually, use Network Manager for easy connecting to our remote server, and access services.

Gartner forecast that Android tablets of all brands will exceed iPads for all of 2013 for the first time, with 91.5 million (49.6 percent) Android tablets shipped compared with 89.6 million (48.6 percent) Apple iPads. Gartner said just over 3 million (1.7 percent) Windows tablets will ship.

Over the last five years, Android has grown into a pretty versatile operating system. Because of its versatility (and the fact that it’s free, open source), developers have created a lot of nifty features to the OS. But even if you’ve seen it all, Android always holds a few surprises. We’ve found five really cool things we bet you never knew your Android device could do before. Check ‘em out.

Nowadays where almost everyone is certainly tracking and watching your data, it's refreshing to be the one doing all the watching.

There are so many online word processors, including Google Docs, Office 365, iWorks and many others. Do we need any more? I think we do.

Thorsten Stettin has created a new PPA for Ubuntu / Linux Mint users who want to use the latest GIMP 2.9 development builds.