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A decade of real choice - there's no app for that Open ... and Shut It's hard to believe it now, but not too long ago the web was dangerously close to being owned by one vendor: Microsoft.…

AMD released a new development tool suite this week called CodeXL that focuses upon heterogeneous compute support across GPUs, CPUs, and APUs...

Gigolo -- Xfce's "mounts anything" file-manager-helper utility -- has an unfortunate moniker. But what's really annoying is continually losing my ftp bookmarks in Nautilus. This never happens in Gigolo. It may be awkward, poorly designed and cringe-inducingly named, but it does what it says.

Smartphones from nearly every manufacturer are exposed to an Android control code vulnerability which can kill a phone's SIM card. The causes of the problem have now been identified

This week we look at 2013 CIO priorities, how some companies are missing the mark with Agile and bringing Android mobile apps to Windows.

MartUX is a new OpenIndiana/Illumos-based Solaris distribution for reviving SPARC hardware support. MartUX_OpenIndiana is based upon OpenIndiana oi_151a, which was released for x86 hardware one year ago, but this LiveDVD distribution release is focusing upon SPARC hardware support. This is the first SPARC release of an OpenIndiana / Illumos distribution.

The Parallella is a new pocket sized computer based on the Epiphany multicore chips developed by semiconductor start-up Adapteva.

There's new improvements within the wonderful open-source APITrace utility for better profiling OpenGL games/applications...

Semiconductor start-up Adapteva has announced its kickstarter plan to create an open-source experimentation board with a massive amount of parallel processing power.

While the new AMD Trinity APUs are what's exciting and being benchmarked at the moment, here are some updated compiler tests from earlier this month on an AMD FX-8150 Bulldozer system...

In this tutorial I will show you how to set up pfSense 2.0.1 up as an Internet Gateway with Squid Proxy / Squidguard Filtering. I will also show that you have to configure some extra features of pfSense like traffic shapping with squid. This type of configuration would be useful for people who want to set up wireless hot spots or Internet cafe's etc.

This tutorial describes how to create Android applications with Eclipse. It is based on Eclipse 4.2 (Juno), Java 1.6 and Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean). The great thing with Android programming is that all needed tools are free and you can use Linux, Windows or Mac operating systems. We're going to install and configure the following software in order to start Android programming:

Gigolo is a natty front-end for managing remote filesystems using GNOME Virtual File System (GVfs or GIO). Should you be interested in getting it?

Or should I say: “grep -R doesn’t automatically search amazon” ? This is becoming the most popular bug on launchpad, and if you are an Ubuntu user perhaps you have already seen it, for all the others..this is an interesting “bug” on a feature request, this is the original text of the bug posted by the user akeane

The Inverse team has just released SOGo v2.0 which features native Outlook compatibility using OpenChange and Samba4. This means Microsoft Outlook 2003, 2007 and 2010 can talk directly to SOGo - just like if it was a Microsoft Exchange server. No plugins are required in Outlook to make this work.

Netflix has a long history of keeping their customers under thumb, is it time the community fight back?

The second beta release for the forthcoming Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" Linux distribution is now available for testing...

Two-Factor Authentication Integration Announced Today

Quite a few options exist as far as Android tablets go. Some of them are great choices for personal entertainment and media consumption. Google's new Nexus 7 is a powerful little beast designed to serve up media from Google Play. Amazon's Kindle Fire is a great device for tapping Amazon's extensive content offerings.

The maker of an industrial control system designed to be used with so-called smart grid networks disclosed to customers last week that hackers had breached its network and accessed project files related to a control system used in portions of the electrical grid.