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In today's data driven world, the need for accurate data and informed analysis is paramount for innovation and progress. Data and statistics that are collected and aggregated have a huge impact on a country's education initiatives which can reform a country's polices and decision-making. However, accurate data can be hard to find in undeveloped countries where education measures can suffer from limitations in collection and reporting mechanisms, or can even be skewed to meet political needs. This data is vital in determining the allocation of resources to schools that are in dire need for the right teachers and school supplies. This situation is particularly true in Haiti, where data collection systems are weak. A new data collection system called PhiCollect is working to solve this problem by creating a comprehensive assessment system that can evaluate a student's intellectual growth. Developed by WebFirst, Inc. in partnership with HavServe Volunteer Network, a non-profit organization that aims to empower rural villages in undeveloped countries—together they hope to break the cycle of extreme poverty, hunger, diseases, and child mortality in small villages through education.

Today I would like to take a moment to discuss a topic that has received much attention on Linux blogs/news sites in recent weeks – Ubuntu’s concept for the Mir display server. I would like to start by pointing out I’ve said the concept of Mir. That is right folks – at this point it is just a concept, nothing more...

Intellectual property and DRM firm Intertrust Technologies has set its sights on Apple. The company has a new patent suit that targets the entirety of Apple's product line: iOS devices, Macs, Apple TVs, iTunes, iCloud, and even the App Store. Intertrust announced on Wednesday that it had filed suit against Apple in the Northern District of California for allegedly violating 15 of Intertrust's patents on security and "distributed trusted computing" (in other words, its DRM tech).

openSUSE 12.3 was released last week and it continues to keep the desktop what it should be – a powerful 'computer'. openSUSE is while known for its professional design and polish there are certain things that you may want to do to get the best of of this great open source operating system.

Is the Tux3 file-system alive and well for Linux or will it face a fate like Reiser4 where it may never see a mainline state? Tux3 is the file-system that warranted attention a few years prior as an open-source versioning file-system to succeed the Tux2 file-system that was challenged by licensing issues. While promising at first, Tux3 virtually disappeared for a few years time.

Part two of the Mastering the Linux Shell series. Looking at how the shell interacts with files and directories. Also includes a look an introduction to metacharacters.

gnome 3.8 is on track to be released on time as usual (the release candidate will be out later today): it’s a great incremental release with improvements all over the place, but I’ll let the release notes speak.

For my own part, I put my fingers here and there either making patches or trying to help (annoy?) people doing the real hard work with reviews and suggestions.

Riak CS offers a highly available, fault-tolerant storage, with support for large objects (up to 5 GB) and multipart uploading, an API and authentication system that is S3-compatible, multi-tenancy and per-user reporting.

Sunglass, a platform for collaborating on 3D projects in real time, and DIYRockets, a global space company helping humanity establish a civilazation in space by building an open space frontier, are partnering in an effort to build rocket engines.

Thanks to Yulike for tweeting to the developers, we now know Hotline Miami should be heading to Linux

In this guest column, Kamran Shah, director of marketing at Mentor Graphics, examines the tradeoffs between embedded Linux and Android for automotive systems including in-vehicle “infotainment” (IVI) devices. Is one better suited than the other, or does each have a distinct role to play? Making use of Android in automotive systems including infotainment by Kamran [...]

Steve Jobs' death clears way for hiring of Macromedia man Long-standing chief technology officer Kevin Lynch has left Adobe, but why?…

So it seems that Steam is now doing something similair to Desura's Alpha Fund program with their new section called Early Access.

It's not hard to create functions to ensure that your script doesn't run forever. But what if you want portions to be timed while others can take as long as they need? Not so fast, Dave explains in his latest Work the Shell.

Full and cut-down Windows for dumber devices Microsoft has announced the general availability of two flavors of Windows 8 for embedded systems; the Standard and Pro editions.…

Crudebyte has released an SDK for the JACK Audio Connection Kit for iOS developers. JACK, which is already available for Linux, Unix, Windows and Mac OS X, can route audio streams between applications and different audio hardware. To do this, JACK synchronises applications that read and write audio data at certain intervals with low latency.

In the latest evidence of the growing recognition that our patent system needs reform, last week the House Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet held an informative and well- attended hearing on "Abusive Patent Litigation".

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is opening up geographic availability of the Acer, Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) and Samsung Chromebooks to Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland and the Netherlands to consumers, businesses and schools, according to a company blog post.

Open Xchange has announced that the major new feature of its OX App Suite will be OX Text, a web-based collaborative word processor which handles DOCX and ODT documents natively, without conversion to an intermediate format. DOCX is Microsoft Office's native XML format and ODT is the document format of OpenOffice and LibreOffice; both are ISO standard document formats.

It seems like every time Ubuntu makes any sort of change, the Linux community finds itself up in arms as if the world is about to end. First, they expressed concern over Unity, then the Amazon search results inclusion and now Mir vs Wayland. Admittedly, I don't personally use Unity as my default desktop these days, as I don't use any of its features. That said, however, I'm a big fan of the Ubuntu base that I run with XFCE. This desktop environment serves me well, and my experience with the Ubuntu base has never given me any serious problems. In this article, I'll examine some of the most common fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD) surrounding Ubuntu, areas where Ubuntu has accomplished seemingly impossible feats and some other important considerations.