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Season 2 for popular Linux platform game No Time to Explain has just been released. The second part takes the crazy fast paced platforming action to new heights and is bigger than ever.

Linux kernel 3.2 RC5 brings some filesystem updates, especially for Btrfs and CIFS. But the most important changes are among the drivers, like swim3, i915 or eDP. And, as usual, some ARM and x86 fixes are also present.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A federal judge on Friday dismissed a Utah company's $1 billion federal antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft Corp. after a jury failed to reach a unanimous verdict.

'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.…

Yesterday Google made available Galaxy Nexus in the US and today the company started rolling out Android 4.0 to its Nexus S phones.

The Google + page of Android posted that "We're rolling out Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich, to GSM/UMTS Nexus S devices over the coming month, starting today."

MyUnity is a configuration tool for Ubuntu's graphical interface, Unity. Customize Unity Launcher, Dash, Panel, Desk and Font, through a Graphical User Interface (GUI). Available for Ubuntu 11.04, 11.10 and 12.04.

Hear Gene Simmons in this ZDNet exclusive interview discuss Ortsbo, a revolutionary new language translation service.

Dell has discontinued making consumer netbooks and appears to be ready to phase out its Latitude business netbooks in favor of larger ultrabooks, says an industry report. The netbook shutdown follows Dell's termination of sales of its Streak 7 Android tablet earlier this month.

Then along comes Apple’s Siri. Siri is a command-line interface that’s cool. We know it’s cool, because it’s made by Apple. But do we know it’s a command-line interface? In my view it is. The input method maybe by voice command, but the concept is still the same. Enter a command; generate output. The only real difference between the command-line and Siri, is the input method.

HP has taken some flak for suggesting it bought Palm so that it could build WebOS into PCs and printers, but positioning WebOS as a universal UI for consumer electronics is a good strategy.

Everyone loves using services like Dropbox or Boxnet. It's almost 2012 - everyone has some kind of Cloud (buzz buzz) storage! Half of us do have hardware laying around that we'd love to convert into our own 'cloud server' but never came across the right software. Instead we pay $9.99 each month to places like dropbox for 50gigs. Luckily, the people at OwnCloud.org have released their own open source software that works as a web app ready to help you store things, create bookmarks, keep a calendar, contacts, etc.. AND share it to anyone you want.. using YOUR hardware!

We are glad to announce the release of Razor-qt 0.4.0, after a months of development since the last release. Last weeks of development were dedicated to overall stability..

So far all the guides and how to’s I’ve read on how to root the LG Optimus V (Virgin Mobile) have been outdated. Here’s an up to date guide on how to root the LG Optimus V (Virgin Mobile) without ever touching the command line.

Amazon may dominate public cloud computing, but not amongst the Microsoft groupies. Microsoft has managed to be an end-to-end cradle-to-grave supplier within the data centre, and is attempting to extend this motherly embrace to the cloud with its Azure platform. Cracks have recently begun to show in this strategy, however, as Microsoft increasingly turns to open-source technologies like Hadoop to spice up Azure. Is this a stopgap strategy or a sign of a more open Microsoft cloud?

Ubuntu Software Center offers many cool paid apps. Till now it was a bit frustrating to buy apps through the Ubuntu Software Center. It was even more challenging to manage it for developers. It's changing. Ubuntu Software Center is getting PayPal support.

If you're looking for the best ways to measure your development team's success, this writer says you need to look at improving predictability and optimizing productivity and he explains how to best do that.

The security-conscious will tell you that a multi-factor authentication scheme involves requiring items from two or more of the categories "things you know," "things you have," and "things you are." Passwords and passphrases both fall under the "things you know" umbrella, and while there are commercially viable options for the latter two categories — security dongles and biometric fingerprint scanners, for example — neither have taken off with the general public. Partly that is a cost issue, to be sure, but the complexity of public-key infrastructure (PKI) smart cards does not help, either.

In August 2011, Download.com was taken on a new path by their General Manager and V.P. Sean Murphy. They started wrapping legitimate 3rd party software into their own installer which by default installs a wide variety of adware and other questionable software on users machines. It also does things like redirect user search queries and change their Internet home page. At first their installer forced people to accept the malware or close the installer (see screen shot of infected VLC installer in this article). Later they added a non-default "decline" button hidden way on the left side of the panel. Also, the initial installer shown in the previous screen shot claimed the software was “SAFE, TRUSTED, AND SPYWARE FREE”. In an unusual show of honesty, they removed that claim from the rogue installer.

A Fedora remix OS from Australia Kororaa 16 named "Chum" has been released a little late but better features. This time Kororaa used many third party repositories like Chrome, Adobe, RPMfusion, VirtualBox. And it also includes many new packages in-built. Overall its very easy and reliable Linux OS.

This week we look at 4 cloud email gottchas, HTML5 as programming training tool and an open source cloud storage server.