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Google provided some tips to help developers of Android 3.x (& Honeycomb& ) tablet applications prepare for its upcoming & Ice Cream Sandwich& (ICS) build. Tips and techniques include how to block Honeycomb apps from being used on small screens, as well as optimizing the apps for ICS handsets by creatively using modular & fragments.& ...

Bing, Microsoft's two-year old search engine, is losing nearly a $1 billion a quarter, with no sign of letting up. Microsoft (MSFT, Fortune 500) has lost $5.5 billion on Bing since the search service launched in June 2009, but the company's search losses actually pre-date that. In fact, the software giant has never made money in its online services division. Since Microsoft began breaking out that unit's finances in 2007, the company has lost a total of $9 billion.

Not FOSS related but of interest to our readers I think - Scott

The Windows version of Firefox comes with a fancy menu button in the title bar. Linux doesn't have that exact feature, but you can come close. Shawn Powers shows us how.

what is the best favourite KDE-based Linux distribution, voted by visitors of blog Linux notes from DarkDuck?

Just over a year ago I wrote the first review of Salix OS for Distrowatch. I found that the desktop-oriented Slackware-based distro met the goals of the developers: maintaining all the positive attributes of the parent distribution while offering additional tools and functionality to provide a friendlier system for users who don't want to get under the hood of their operating system.

This week we interviewed Ken Elkabany, CEO of another company with a business model on top of scientific open source software: PiCloud. PiCloud allows running any Python code on an auto-scaling, high-performance cluster in a server-less cloud. That includes SciPy code. We hope this kind of interview inspires scientist and developers to turn into FLOSS entrepreneurs.

Google Wallet has launched on time in New York and San Francisco, letting consumers pay via short-range NFC technology on Sprint's Samsung Nexus S 4G Android smartphone. In a surprising turn, Visa, American Express, and Discover have joined Citi and MasterCard as credit card partners in the venture....

Richard Stallman took time out of his busy schedule to answer the burning question of whether Android is free software. Brian Proffitt says Stallman's 1,439-word Guardian article is one of the longest ways he has seen lately to deliver what should have been an obvious (and 1,438-word shorter) answer: No. However, Proffitt points out that lately that the Free Software Foundation and free software leadership have taken great pains to level broadsides against open source projects and, by extension, open source software in general.

Is Microsoft finally resigned to the fact that Windows can never again be the dominant operating system on our planet? Or is the behemoth planning to make one final attempt to control what you use?

EML files are a problem for some of my users on Ubuntu. They receive these as Email attachments but can only view them as text (usually in gedit) even if they contain pictures. The senders are probably using Outlook Express or a related mail application to attach them. While some non-Microsoft mail clients can open them properly this is a hassle for my users as they all use web mail.

The Open Virtualization Alliance is continuing to grow with membership now exceeding 200 companies all pushing KVM and associated open-source virtualization solutions. Should VMware worry? Here's the update.

Go penguin, you're often paying Redmond In the latest news from the tech world's ongoing global hunt to find someone to sue over/deal with on patents, Microsoft has signed a licensing agreement with Casio.…

In this tutorial I will show you how to do continuous deployment with Jenkins as a ci tool and Rex as a deployment tool. Together, we will set up Jenkins, the build and test process, a Subversion repository and our example Perl App. This tutorial can be used with Java-, PHP-, Rails-, ... projects as well. But for simplicity I've chosen Perl. This howto focuses on Ubuntu 11.04 but it can also be done with other Linux Distributions.

The advent of radio didn't mean the death of live theater, as conventional wisdom at the time predicted. Televisions in every household didn't exactly ring a death knell for movie theaters, despite pundits' predictions. So Larry the Free Software Guy points out to those risking injury jumping on the Linux-desktop-is-dead bandwagon that you're on the wrong side of history.

Pardus 2011.2, code-named Cervus elaphus, is the latest version of the Linux desktop distribution developed by the Turkish National Research Institute of Electronics and Cryptology (UEKAE), an arm of the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜB?TAK).

The UEFI secure boot protocol is part of recent UEFI specification releases. It permits one or more signing keys to be installed into a system firmware. Once enabled, secure boot prevents executables or drivers from being loaded unless they're signed by one of these keys. Another set of keys (Pkek) permits communication between an OS and the firmware. An OS with a Pkek matching that installed in the firmware may add additional keys to the whitelist. Alternatively, it may add keys to a blacklist. Binaries signed with a blacklisted key will not load.

New free app provides Moodle course management system access for Moodlers on the go.

All file managers provide basic file management operations such as create, open, view, edit, move and delete files. However, many Android file managers also offer additional functionality such as network connectivity, application management, archive and compression handling, searching, and more.

Those of us who enjoy open source software often forget that the vast majority of open source developers do this on their own time and their own dime. For some that’s not a problem … a precious few some. For many these projects are headed up by younger developers, students, and people in less fortunate situations (for whatever reason). So every five dollar donation can go a long way to keeping a project running.

SUSE Linux, now owned by Attachmate, is preparing customer and partner surprises that will likely involve public cloud and private cloud initiatives. Details will surface at Novell BrainShare in October. Here's an early preview of the strategy.