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The latest Aurora and Beta releases of the open source Firefox browser show privacy features are at the top of the feature list for the browser. Currently in Beta, Firefox 21 now includes a new user interface for the Do Not Track (DNT) system and Firefox 22, available in the Aurora test channel, has the new cookie policy, announced in February, implemented.

In today’s fast paced world, we don’t have time for anything to slow us down. We constantly rely on our technology to help us get through the day. Whether it’s a way to get directions, emergency, mobile games or just a plain old phone call, smartphones are one of the leading and most developed tech we have. Unfortunately smartphones constantly get bogged down by old apps that continue to run in the background, which slows your device way down.

The other day I reported an issue concerning no audio in Fuduntu 2013.2. In truth, the issue was not Fuduntu's fault at all.

A user on Facebook asked Age of Wonders developers if they are planning on supporting Linux for AoW3 and they answered that they would consider it if there was enough audience. This sounds like a good opportunity to let them know that there is a Linux market they can tap into.

When I first started aggressively using open source code , freshmeat and sourceforge.net were typically the first places I'd go to look. In 2006, Google shook up the open source code repository market with Google Code and I started to find great stuff there. Today, the VAST majority of all open source code that I seek, use and play with is all found on GitHub.

The ailing personal computer market is getting weaker, and it's starting to look as if it will never fully recover as a new generation of mobile devices reshapes the way people use technology. The latest evidence of the PC's infirmity emerged Wednesday with the release of two somber reports showing unprecedented declines in sales of desktop and laptop machines during the first three months of the year.

Management is moved around as the non-profit foundation and its corporation start a search for a new CEO to take it into the next phase, delivering a mobile Firefox experience on phones around the world    

Meet Kris Trujillo, Senior Software Architect at Accela. I met Trujillo at last year's CityCamp Colorado and was curious about how Accela is advancing the open government movement with their software. I was impressed to learn about some of their solutions aimed at government agencies and how those solutions help to provide transparency into government processes and civic information.

For seeing whether NVIDIA's new 319.12 Beta Linux graphics driver that introduces many new features has any impact on the OpenGL performance for many common Linux games, here are some Phoronix test results when comparing the NVIDIA 304.xx, 310.xx, 313.xx, and 319.xx graphics driver series on GeForce GTX 550 Ti "Fermi" and GeForce GTX 680 "Kepler" graphics cards...

Independent developer Larian Studios created a Kickstarter campaign for their open-world, traditional RPG Divinity: Original Sin, and it raised over $400,000 in less than two weeks. That guarantees OS X and Linux versions, which the developers hope to ship simultaneously with the PC version, currently estimated for July 2013.

This tutorial describes the installation of LinOTP on OpenSUSE 12.3 using PostgreSQL as a token database. LinOTP is a two factor authentication solution with One Time Passwords. In the following Howto we are showing how to enable SSH authentication with LinOTP.

The Google Authenticator project includes implementations of one-time passcode generators for several mobile platforms, as well as a pluggable authentication module (PAM). One-time passcodes are generated using open standards developed by the Initiative for Open Authentication (OATH).

SDN decouples control from network hardware. The result could be easier-to-manage networks built on lower-cost hardware. But dozens of vendors claim to have SDN solutions, and each is slightly different from the other. That chaos threatens to stall overall market innovation, partner training and customer adoption.

Terasology is an open-source survival and discovery game with influences from Minecraft, Dwarf Fortress, and Dungeon Keeper. The game is in a pre-alpha state, but it's already fun to play! Build #24 has been released!

By providing a stable, virus-resistant platform for BSE’s core business systems, the deployment of Linux has offered BSE better availability and reliability as compared to what it was using previously for business.

The graphics card manufacturer NVIDIA has released a new beta version 319.12 of it's graphics driver. The new version includes a lot of new features and improvements. Probably the biggest feature is the initial support of the Optimus technology, which allows dynamic switching between a mobile NVIDIA graphics card and an integrated graphics chip, like one from Intel.

In a post on the company’s blog today, Roku founder and CEO Anthony Wood announced that more than 5 million of the company’s iconic Roku players have now shipped. Wood provides a brief history of the Roku player, from its modest 2008 launch as “the Netflix player,” to the point where it offers “about 750 [...]

Today we are announcing changes to our executive leadership team as we build up our pivot to mobile and build upon the foundation that’s now in place to accelerate into the opportunities in front of us.

The newly rebooted Xen Orchestra project aims at developing a simple, scalable, Open Source web interface for Xen.

ABI Research projects that by the end of 2013, about 1.4 billion devices in the wild will be equipped with HTML5-compatible browsers. Despite this tantalizing opportunity for new HTML-enabled web apps, however, the “vast majority” of developers continue to create “native model” apps rather than web apps, reports the analyst firm. “While some two years [...]