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Thousands of ratings all include identical bad text: "I was waiting this app."

Educators in the US and worldwide are increasingly preoccupied with: 1) how children learn, 2) how best to prepare children for the future, and 3) what role digital technology plays in the classroom—all of which is controversial and widely debated. Various theories and models of education and intelligence have played a large role in shaping this discussion. Noted developmental psychologist, Howard Gardner of Harvard's Graduate School of Education, has been instrumental for many years.

Overseas hackers have conned three Auckland businesses out of tens of thousands of dollars in an elaborate email scam. The Albany and Devonport-based businesses fell victim to the ruse when placing email orders with Chinese suppliers.

A full review of Ubuntu Studio 13.10.

An updated libgcrypt package that fixes one security issue is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact.

The ODROID-XU is the latest exciting ARM development board. Rather than aiming for low-cost like the Raspberry Pi, the ODROID-XU currently offers maximum performance when it comes to open ARM development boards.

Máirín Duffy of Red Hat and the Fedora Project fame agreed to an email-based interview She is a graphic designer who has worked on many User Experiences (UX), User Interfaces (UI) and website designs. Máirín was the primary designer behind the somewhat recent Fedora Installer (Anaconda) redesign that originally landed in Fedora 18. She tells about her history with Fedora, her favorite hardware and graphics software, as well as the work she did on the Anaconda redesign, etc.

Via Technologies announced what it says is the industry’s first quad-core ARM-based Pico-ITX single board computer (SBC), featuring Android or Ubuntu Linux running on the 1GHz Freescale i.MX6Quad system-on-chip.

Telefonica announced the launch of Firefox OS 1.1 phones in Brazil, including the debut of LG’s first Firefox OS phone. The LG Fireweb offers a larger 4-inch screen and a more capable 5-megapixel camera than Telefonica’s current ZTE and Alcatel Firefox OS phones, but is limited to same 480 x 320 resolution.

The USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF), the organisation that oversees the USB standard, has apparently sent the director of a small British electronics firm away with a flea in his ear for daring to suggest how it could make the lives of open-source hardware developers easier and cheaper.

After just three years in the market, the open-source OpenStack cloud platform is already maturing rapidly and generating revenue for its backers. A new market sizing report from analyst firm 451 Research pegs the OpenStack market as being on track to generate $600 million in revenue in 2013, with more than $1 billion in revenue forecast by 2015.

It's funny, when your home office is your couch, you tend to forget how nice it can be when you dock a laptop and have all the extra screen real estate a monitor brings. For many years, I left my work laptop docked at work, and when I worked from home, I just VPNed in with a personal laptop.

Today in Open Source: Linus and SteamOS. Plus: The death of SolusOS, and a review of Ubuntu Studio 13.10

My routine in checking out any unfamiliar Linux distro is to see how quickly the live session boots on my standard equipment. Usually, the first sign of duress is the lack of a wireless connection. The next stumbling block is usually one or more snags while installing the new distro to the test computers. Linux Lite impressed me from the start.

As reported by Softpedia, the GNOME Project has announced last week the immediate availability for download of the first maintenance release of the GNOME Software application, followed a few days later by the second point release, which introduces more bugfixes.

You can run, but you can’t hide from Michael Larabel. If it’s electronic and has the potential to run Linux, chances are he’s put it through its paces with the Phoronix Test Suite.

Slackel is based on Slackware Linux and Salix. Includes Linux kernel 3.10.16 and latest updates from Slackware's 'Current' tree. The ncurses installer includes the option to install LILO or GRUB boot loader. After installation users can use the grubconfig utility to re-install GRUB or to change the boot loader from LILO to GRUB. Users can also use update-grub to update GRUB menus any time they upgrade their kernel or install other Linux distribution. The os-prober tool is used to probe for other operating systems and to update GRUB menus. Slackel 5.0 Openbox includes the Midori 0.5.5 web browser, Claws-Mail 3.9.2, Transmission, SpaceFM, OpenJRE 7u40, Rhino, icedtea-web, Pidgin 2.10.7, gFTP 2.0.19, wicd. AbiWord 2.8.6, Gnumeric 1.12.2 and ePDFviewer office applications are included.

If you're still questioning the viability of the cloud, consider that a new study by Cisco predicts that by 2017 more than 2/3 of all data center activity will be in the cloud. That means it's time to put aside questions of the cloud and prepare your company for the future or risk being left in the dust.

Explore, Expand, Exploit and Exterminate your way across a galaxy of Timothy Zahn's favorite aliens...and some of your own. I interviewed them on the project and here is the result!

Oracle is providing its Linux users with a new Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel (UEK) 3 release that enables new server capabilities.