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While Plymouth is now quite mature and didn't see too much new activity in 2011, it may be finding its way into another Linux distribution. The openSUSE developers are debating to use Plymouth as a replacement to bootsplash...

Shopping for a new Linux server isn't as easy as you might think. Here's a round-up of what's available for those of you who want to dance with the penguin.

The OLPC XO-3 Tablet is supposed to be unveiled on Sunday night at CES. While many probably remember seeing the somewhat unrealistic looking, early concept images from a couple of years ago, the final design looks quite obvious although I found the cover options surprising. A few pictures are included.

Hewlett-Packard's WebOS is making unexpected inroads in healthcare as medical researchers develop applications for the newly open-source platform.

Andrew B. Holbrook, a Stanford University Department of Radiology research associate, developed a WebOS application that operates an MRI scanner and allows radiologists and other medical personnel to view images captured by the MRI machine on a TouchPad tablet.

Time tracking software is a type of computer software that records time spent on tasks. This category of software can enable users to run billing reports, and prepare invoices for clients.

This week, we look at why developers and IT pros change jobs (more money, duh!), why your mobile app isn't selling and the analytics outlook for 2012.

Lenovo has announced a 13.3-inch notebook computer that has both Intel and ARM processors. The ThinkPad X1 Hybrid combines an Core i3, i5, or i7 CPU with a dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon, allowing users to toggle between Windows 7 and a Linux-based & Instant Media Mode& operating system whenever they want....

When talking yesterday about the likely DRM pull for the Linux 3.3 kernel there were a few graphics driver related items not on the list...

Red Eclipse, a total conversion mod of the "Cube 2" engine, is now at version 1.2 after racking up many changes to this open-source game...

The Radeon virtual memory (VM) support -- part of the Radeon HD 7000 series upbringing -- is now in the DRM next tree for landing in the Linux 3.3 kernel. Separate from the expected 3.3 graphics pull request, Linaro's "dma-buf" has already been sent to Linus Torvalds for merging into the mainline tree...

Wind River announced three modular versions of its Android development platform. Wind River Solution Accelerators for Android are available in User Experience, Connectivity and Medical modules, offering features such as multi-windowing support, DLNA media sharing, multimedia and sync interfaces, firmware management, IEEE 11073-compliant medical data exchange, and 30 percent faster boot-times, claims the company....

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.