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Anton Kreuzkamp, a 15 year old KDE developer has come up with a fantastic new way of managing space on virtual desktops. This experimental method, called 'The Workspace Strap' can combine free space of multiple desktops to manage windows more efficiently. Using a Kwin effect, the workspace strap method allows us to organize windows on a linear strap, either horizontally or vertically, that supports stepless scrolling.

Redmond fights back with its favourite weapon: money Open... and Shut Microsoft, which has suffered years of irrelevance in mobile, has a new game plan, which looks suspiciously like its old game plan: pay retail employees to sell Windows.…

The SOPA debate is just another example of dismissing IT expertise, and it's time to start listening to the experts -- whether in IT or elsewhere.

Microsoft's 2012 kick-off features 7 security bulletins Microsoft plans to start 2012 with a surprisingly large Patch Tuesday that covers seven security bulletins which collectively address eight separate vulnerabilities. Previous January releases have normally featured only one or two bulletins.…

OpenSSL has released an alert to warn of at least six security vulnerabilities affecting users of the open source implementation of the SSL and TLS protocols.

'It's not personal, it's business' CouchDB’s founder is “moving on” from the Apache project he founded to build a "better" and commercially successful version of his NoSQL database without Apache's democratic foot-dragging.…

Another game coming out from Kot-In-Action (Other than Steel Storm 2) is Tomes of Mephistopheles (a bit of a mouthful!). Alex has sent us word on a teaser trailer

Ubuntu Binary Clock Lens is a Unity Launcher plugin which displays the current time in a binary format, directly in the Unity Dash. For more details about how a binary clock works, check the Wikipedia article.

Discovery could revolutionize engineering new species Researchers in Canada have created a new type of supersoldier ant by activating genetic material from long-dead forms of life.…

Smartphone manufacturers are increasingly focusing their efforts on emerging markets, says ABI Research, which forecasts the mobile handset market in general growing 8 percent in 2012, representing 1.67 million shipments. Meanwhile, IDC projects that by 2015, the world's mobile worker population will reach 1.3 billion, representing 37.2 percent of the total workforce, with the greatest growth expected in emerging markets....

Indian hackers posted 5-year-old Norton code Symantec has confirmed earlier versions of its anti-virus source code have leaked, following a security breach of what the company said was the network of a "third party entity" rather than their own.…

The Mesa Softpipe driver is now getting close to handling OpenGL 3.0 support for the Mesa 8.0 release, which is expected to be branched next week...

Advantech announced two rugged industrial box PCs based on Intel's new dual-core "Cedar Trail" Atom processors. The ARK-2120L and similar ARK-2120F support both the 1.6GHz Atom N2600 or 2.13GHz D2700 processors, as well as up to 4GB of DDR3 memory, and provide CompactFlash, SATA, VGA, HDMI, and gigabit Ethernet connections, as well as varying amounts of USB 2.0 and serial ports....

Microsoft's next OS to sport ZFS features Microsoft will introduce in Windows 8 what it calls Storage Spaces – a method of putting drives into a virtual pool from which self-healing virtual disks can be created, with some resemblance to ZFS features.…

In the 3 former articles of this series we have saw OCSInventory, Fusion Inventory and GLPI 3 software that can create an asset inventory with your computers hardware and software.

Today we’ll take a look at another software: Uranos (Unattended Resolution in A Nutshell – OS).

Unattended Resolution in A Nutshell – OS is an open source software that will let you perform Asset Managment, Monitoring, Software Distribution,Unattended tasks. It’s free for both personal and commercial use and released under GPL license.

Intel's experimental "Sandy Bridge New Acceleration" (SNA) acceleration architecture is a constant work-in-progress that even in the past two weeks over the holidays has received more than 100 changes. How though is this new 2D acceleration architecture fairing these days rather than the stock UXA configuration? In this article are our first Intel SNA benchmarks of 2012 when enabling this architecture.

The Linux New Media Awards are back!

Richard Clarke, author of the newly released book Cyber War and former White House adviser to the Bush and Clinton administrations, says the new cyber threats land the responsibility for successful IT security at the CIO’s feet. He’s come up with an acronym, CHEW, to describe the four preeminent types of attacks: Crime, Hacktivism, Espionage, and potentially, War.

After Ubuntu and GNOME, KDE will get its own font too: Oxygen.

Oxygen font family is already available for testing (currently in alpha!) and comes with regular, bold and monospace variants, however, only the basic character shapes are done for now and the font is currently using the basic 'auto spacing' from FontForge.