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Advantech has launched a Linux- and Android-ready Qseven module called the ROM-7420 equipped with a Freescale i.MX6 SoC, capable of running on 3 Watts. The ARM Cortex-A9-based Freescale i.MX6 system-on-chip has been a popular choice among embedded board and module vendors over the last two years. In part, this is because you can select how […]

Mobile app downloads: 97%... 90%... 25%?! This Christmas was nothing but bad news for developers hoping to cash in on fast-selling tablets, if download and activation stats from the festive season are to be believed.…

Open source news for your reading pleasure. December 30-January 3, 2014 This week's edition of our open source news roundup features some New Year's-related tidbits to start your year off right. Here's what we found:

Acer began shipping the TA272 HUL, an Nvidia Tegra 4 powered, all-in-one Android 4.2 PC that doubles as a 27-inch, WQHD (2560 x 1440) touchscreen monitor. The TA272 HUL appears to be the first shipping Android device with WQHD resolution, which also makes it one of the highest resolution Android devices around, and the highest-res […]

In room-size metal boxes ­secure against electromagnetic leaks, the National Security Agency is racing to build a computer that could break nearly every kind of encryption used to protect banking, medical, business and government records around the world.

OSSCube has a strict open source software only policy for everything they do. CEO Lavanya Rastogi and VP of Enterprise Marketing John Bernard share with me how they use only open source software internally and externally to keep up with the pace of business while simultaneously maintaining a quality product for their clients. They say it's the only way to do business. this interview.

For open source projects to survive and thrive, it takes all sorts of different people contributing in various ways. We hope you are already participating in the open source community, but if you’re not, 2014 is going to be a great year to start! Already an open source convert? Why not consider giving back in a new way this year? Here are seven roles you might consider taking on in the new year.

Several days ago I had written about GNU Octave 3.8, the latest major update to the open-source high-level numerical computational language commonly used in replacement of MATLAB. Back then I wrote about the features and that the official release was available from the FTP server, while a few hours ago the official release finally took place...

A Russian firm has produced a Linux-based WiFi controller board for remote control and video observation, and has demonstrated its use in a remote controlled car. Two-year-old Virt2real Ltd is still something of an after-hours project run by several Russian techies, but has become well known in the Russian hacker community, according to co-founder Eugene […]

Not everyone buys into the whole "New Year's resolution" thing. But we know some of you have a personal to-do list that you hope to tackle in 2014. And we can't help but wonder if any of your resolutions have something to do with open source?

I'm always amazed to hear about the death of the publishing industry. True, books and (gulp) magazines are often fighting for their lives, and the state of journalism is in tatters.

Can Korean chaebol succeed where Palm and HP failed? South Korean electronics giant LG plans to debut its first smart TV based on the webOS operating system next week, industry insiders claim.…

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Consumer Linux efforts are alive and growing in 2013

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Amazon's preliminary Christmas sales information is in and Linux-powered gear was a holiday-season winner.

Fast and furious firms battle to design dashboard of the future CES 2014 Apple and Google are preparing to compete on yet another front. They reportedly plan to race each other to design the world's most powerful smart car dashboard.…

As an extra holiday present for Linux and open-source fans, Intel has quietly released a large batch of new programming documentation that covers their latest-generation Haswell graphics cores. The new "programmer's reference manuals" cover the 2013 Haswell HD Graphics, Iris Graphics, and Iris Pro Graphics. This massive batch of documentation is spread across twelve volumes and does document their hardware registers...

Over the last five years, e-learning platforms have gained popularity and notoriety for alleviating some of the strain caused by our education problems. Namely, for helping bring resources and materials to classrooms and countries that can't afford the proprietary and closed options.

Why don't academics discuss research before starting the work? In a recent blog post, Jack Kelly asked this simple question, and it is a striking one for those of us who are familiar with collaborating at high levels as part of an open source community. One of the pillars of the open source way is rapid prototyping and the idea of: release early, release often. In the scientific research community, however, the history of and current state of affairs is closed and secretive. Jack Kelly even began his post with: Warning: this is a hopelessly idealistic proposal...