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Broadcom announced four "5G WiFi" chips, which implement the 802.11ac draft specification to provide wireless networking at speeds up to 1.3Gbps. The BCM4360, BCM4352, BCM43526, and BCM43516 operate at 5GHz, employ 80MHz channel bandwidth, and use a "beamforming" feature to increase signal strength, the company says....

The boot sequence today is far more complex than it was even a decade ago. Here's a detailed, low-level, step-by-step walkthrough of the boot up.

Apple Inc. was handed a legal victory that is bad news for rival Google Inc., as a U.S. trade agency ruled that some HTC Corp. smartphones that use the Internet company's Android software infringe an Apple patent.

'XSS on steroids' attacks to highlight web security holes A hacker has published code for potent cross-site scripting attacks that he claims go beyond the usual cookie stealing and phishing for users' private details.…

Senator Franken issued this press release making public the responses from carriers (AT&T, and Sprint) and manufacturers (Samsung and HTC) regarding the Carrier IQ privacy issue. No response yet from T-Mobile and Motorola.

While CentOS, Scientific Linux, and Oracle Linux Server are all derived from the same upstream source (Red Hat Enterprise Linux), how does the system performance compare between these RHEL derivatives? Here are some benchmarks of each of the 6.1 releases for Oracle Server, CentOS, and Scientific Linux, as they all do not perform the same.

Would you like to know whether or not CarrierIQ – the dialer-and-location sniffing software installed in many mobile devices – is being used by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for law enforcement purposes? They won’t reveal much about the controversial application to the concerned general public. Why not? Because, they claim doing so might interfere with ongoing cases or investigations.

The libbluray project put out its first official release a few weeks ago. This open-source (GNU GPLv2) library is intended to support Blu-Ray disc playback by media players such as VLC and MPlayer. The libbluray 0.21 release is the first from the project and it happened on the 30th of November. This release hasn't been widely publicized and I just happened to know about it this morning from an indirectly-related message on another mailing list. This project was born out of the Doom9 community and has been under development since 2009.

If you have been wanting to dabble with Arch Linux but don't want to jump directly into this leading rolling-release Linux distribution, you may want to give KahelOS a shot...

HP today announced it will contribute the webOS software to the open source community.

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest, Boudewijn Rempt writes about the 2.4 version of Krita. In addition, the usual list of updates: Progress in the work to separate QGraphicsView from libplasma Calligra sees work on docx support and autocolor Telepathy sees UI refactoring; there is now extended away support and dialog-less setup for link-local XMPP read more

In a YouTube video posted on Monday, Trevor Eckhart showed how software from a Silicon Valley company known as Carrier IQ recorded in real time the keys he pressed into a stock EVO handset, which he had reset to factory settings just prior to the demonstration.

IQnection Internet Services, Inc, an Internet Hosting company in Doylestown, PA, today has announced its acquisition of LinuxForum.com, a popular Internet forum providing Linux discussion, articles, news and more.

Google’s complaints about patent-based attacks against Android don’t seem to be doing the company any good. We all know Steve Jobs pledged to destroy Android, claiming it stole its ideas from Apple’s iOS. Yet what is likely an even bigger threat comes from Microsoft, which claims that more than half of all Android devices are now subject to patent licensing agreements.

Clang, the C/C++ compiler for LLVM, can now build a patched version of LibreOffice...

Speaking at this week's AsiaD conference in Hong Kong, Andy Rubin, Google Senior VP of Mobile and the man in charge of Android development, confirmed that the source code for the next major update to Android, version 4.0, will be available as open source "a couple of weeks" after the recently announced Galaxy Nexus smartphone ships next month.

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.

Code release by end of the year? Google's Ice Cream Sandwich has been served, and it looks destined to give live-free-or-die open sourcers continued indigestion for now at least.…

Tim Cook, Scott Forestall and Phil Schiller spoke today before a group of eager onlookers at Apple's Cupertino headquarters to announce the iPhone 4S GSM/CDMA smartphone, to be available Oct 14 through AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint.

Amazon is rumored to be negotiating with HP to buy its Palm division, including its WebOS assets -- either to create an update to the Kindle Fire tablet, or just to gain patents. Meanwhile, an IHD iSuppli analysis suggests Amazon is selling each Quanta-manufactured Fire for $10 less than it costs to build....