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Canonical has revealed a new Ubuntu TV concept as CES. The TV will have easy integration of broadcast, online services and applications and will also support a range of other devices like tablets and phones that can serve as second screen for content viewing. Ubuntu TV will have ability to stream music, photos and videos from the PC to the TV. And with Ubuntu TV apps for iOS, Android and Ubuntu, media can be shared between the TV and portable devices using the personal cloud service, Ubuntu One. Ubuntu TV will run your applications and many other apps from third party developers. These apps will be delivered and updated through an online store.

The veteran running the business side of Microsoft's Windows server and tools software is leaving after 16 years. Corporate vice president Robert Wahbe is leaving Microsoft at the end of next month, according to an updated version of his corporate biography here. Wahbe is responsible for all product and business management for Windows Server, SQL Server, Visual Studio, System Center, and Forefront – meaning he's in charge of pricing, packaging, branding and advertising. Microsoft's $15bn Server and Tools group is also home to Microsoft's cloud effort, Windows Azure.

Ubuntu TV, a TV-optimized Ubuntu version, was demoed by Canonical at CES in Las Vegas earlier today. The Ubuntu-powered television is planned to initially target the US and China and is said to be available by the end of this year.

If you manage remote machines you have for sure some way to connect to them, to connect to Unix machines I’m used to open a terminal with my favorite terminal emulator (Terminator in these days), and from there ssh to other servers, for Windows RDP protocol as client i use Remmina (perhaps i’ll talk of it in a future article) and for FTP and SFTP i use Filezilla, but i’ve found recently another interesting software that could change my habitudes: PAC Manager, where PAC stand for Perl/Gtk approach to connections managing.

If you are trying to find out what your public external IP address is, you typically go to a web site specifically for this purpose, such as ipchicken.com or whatsmyip.org. Thanks to cURL, you can easily do this from the command line too.

At the 2012 Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE 10x, Jan. 20-22, Los Angeles), open source upstarts and technology giants will make a similar claim: For you to truly succeed, your strategy will need a healthy dose of open source and Linux. Here's a preview of the discussion.

Oh my, the Microsoft hype machine is back folks and in what appears to be an orchestrated campaign or a huge coincidence -- you decide -- we suddenly see a number of stories trumpeting the greatness of Windows Phone 7 and at the same time, stories about how Apple and Android, well they used to be cool, but not anymore.

If you can set up a Linux box with Apache, with a bit of fettling you can use eyeOS to create your own personalised cloud desktop. Michael Reed reviews eyeOS version 2.5…

The parent company of the best Linux distro around now offers their free Ubuntu One Files service for your iPhone.

Linux on TVs is nothing new and shouldn't come as a surprise. If you've got a DVR device, a Texas Instrument chip, an 'enhanced' media device (WD, seagate, boxee etc..) you've already got a Linux TV. What Ubuntu is doing here is associating their brand of Linux (and make no mistake about it, Canonical is doing its best to push Ubuntu as a brand) for consumer electronics vendors.

This HOWTO will show you how to set up a Squid proxy server deployed on CentOS or RedHat 6 Linux with web and content filtering done by QuintoLabs Content Security with proxy users transparently authenticated by Windows 2008 R2 based Active Directory. This is the work in progress and all comments are welcomed. The HOWTO is targeted at novice users and may sometimes seem too thorough for more advanced gurus. No compilation magic will be involved in our setup so any system administrator accustomed to Windows will be able to easily follow the instructions.

CentOS 6 now includes eCryptfs which provides the ability to encrypt data and files on a per-file basis instead of the entire disk as in block encryption. The eCryptfs system sits on top of the current file system to provide the encryption layer, that is why it is known as the pseudo-file system. The file operations which are sent to the underlying file system are intercepted by eCryptfs and encrypted.

Canonical introduced a new online entertainment experience with Ubuntu TV. It will allow you to watch movies, and TV shows over the web with need to additional devices except the Ubuntu TV. It will be a strong competitor to satellite TV and many online TV streamers because you will be able to search through millions of movies and TV shows and watch it directly or record it to watch it later.

Most of us are used to seeing page numbers as Arabic numbers like 1-2-3-...-10-11-12 and so on. But what if you wanted to see numbering in Roman style: I-II-III-...-X-XI-XII? Is there any option in LibreOffice or OpenOffice.org to do so?

Redo Backup and Recovery is a live CD that offer a complete and a simple recovery solution for your Data, Redo allows bare-metal restore. This means that even if your hard drive melts or gets completely erased by a virus (Windows systems), you can have a completely-functional system back up and running in as little as 10 minutes.

New efforts could make the open source browser even more secure. The year 2012 will likely be a milestone for Mozilla's Firefox web browser, as the open source group aims to further accelerate web innovation.

Previously a group of Indian hackers called The Lords of Dharmaraja had posted documents that were pillaged during the hack of an Indian military network... "The memo suggests that, "in exchange for the Indian market presence" mobile device manufacturers, including RIM, Nokia, and Apple (collectively defined in the document as "RINOA") have agreed to provide backdoor access on their devices."

Courtesy of Distrowatch, I learned about Tails, a live Linux distribution based on Debian Live that uses Tor and other cryptographic- and privacy-minded features to protect a users anonymity while using the Internet.

Barnes & Noble, you may recall, is asserting that Microsoft, partnering with Nokia and MOSAID, is plotting "to use patents to drive open source software out of the market," saying it is threatening companies using Android with an anticompetitive choice: pay Microsoft exorbitant rates for patents -- trivial, invalid, or not infringed, according to Nokia -- or spend a fortune on litigation. It wants discovery to try to prove its claims.

Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child initiative has historically been more about promise than fulfillment. But in the $100 XO 3.0 tablet, OLPC may have its first product that's not just practical, capable, or cheap. It's actually… good.