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USPTO has presented Google with a last minute Christmas gift by rejecting Oracle's U.S. Patent No. 6,192,476. According to Groklaw, on December 20 the USPTO issued a final rejection in the ex parte reexamination. All of the claims of the patent were subject to reexamination, including Claim 14. Claim 14 of the patent was the only claim being asserted by Oracle in this litigation, writes Groklaw. This rejection means Oracle has already lost 17 out of 21 patents, including all seven of the patent's independent claims.

Strategic Forecasting, Inc, or STRATFOR, provides strategic intelligence on global business, economic, security and geopolitical affairs. At 1145PST on Christmas Eve, 2011, the hacker group Anonymous broke into the STRATFOR servers and have claimed to delete over 200GB of email and other data.

Vincent Lejeune has published an updated patch-set providing Uniform Buffer Object (UBO) support for OpenGL in Mesa...

An update has been released to Wargus, an open-source version of the Warcraft II game that was originally released back in the 90's...

LXer Feature: 25-Dec-2011

For Christmas this year I bring you a LXWR overloaded with FOSS goodness such as Larry the Free Software Guy spends a "Week in Limbo", BT gives the gift of a patent war to Google, Ubuntu..a Linux apart, two original articles entitled "Why The Linux Desktop Still Rocks" and "Why Linux Desktop Makes Total Sense", the 5 types of very annoying Linux users and last but not least Helios gets to play Santa..and likes it. Enjoy!

A Nokia developer shared this week that his Qt 5.0 patch-set for Google Native Client is roughly on par with the Qt4 port, which he hopes to have integrated for upstream development in Qt5. This work allows for the Qt5 tool-kit to be used by web applications within supported web-browsers...

Tim Bird in collaboration with many Linaro and individual developers, including Linux kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman, announced the beginning of the Android Mainlining Project, to include Android's patches and features into the mainline Linux kernel.

The Pentagon has approved a version of Android running on Dell hardware to be used by DoD officials, along with the BlackBerry. The approval of Android by the DoD is a major setback for Apple's iPhone.

This doesn't mean that DoD employees can use any Android phone. The Pentagon has approved only Dell's hardware running Android 2.2. Interestingly Dell recently discontinued its Streak phone which runs Android 2.2. Dell is now offering Dell Venue which runs on Android 2.2. So, this is the phone which DoD employees can use.

The eagerly anticipated Raspberry Pi home computer is about to go into production.

In high performance computing it is common for applications to have all of the data in the physical memory to meet performance criticality. When multiple processes communicate, as we know, shared memory serves as the fastest way of IPC. Any such typical application would initialize the shared memory by loading the data from the disk into the shared memory. Now a question arises - what is the maximum data size that my application can hold in the physical memory, of course, without swapping.

Canonical is preparing to push their X.Org Server configuration they intend to use in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" into their staging area. Once again, it's not the latest upstream code, but a convoluted solution...

From the seminal Age of Empires Series to the massively popular StarCraft, real-time strategy games have always enjoyed a huge fan base. Whether it be prepping your soldiers for a tough battle ahead, or launching a full-blown attack on your enemies, there’s never a dull moment in this genre of gaming. Also, since fans of this genre range from hobbyist amateurs to accomplished world gaming champions, real-time strategy games have made their presence felt on almost all platforms, including mobile.

rosettacode is not only useful to compare languages, but also to learn new ones. you can see how a problem solved in a language that you know, looks like in the language you are learning. or you can try to implement it in that new language, using the existing implementations as a reference.

The Linux 3.2-rc7 kernel has been released as what will likely be the last development build for the Linux 3.2 kernel...

Kindle Fire is a pure Amazon device, where the format support and storage capacity forces user to buy content from Amazon. I in fact like that Kindle Fire supports VP8, the video format open sourced by Google. If you are running Ubuntu or any other version of Linux you can now easily encode and transfer movies to your Kindle Fire using the open source application called Miro.

?5 beautiful Android launchers worth trying out both paid and free. Customize your Android device with those beautiful launchers.

This article focuses on software which emulates home computers, a class of personal computer which reached the market in the late 1970s, and became immensely popular in the following decade, selling many millions of units.

Suicide Linux punishes those users who often misspell terminal commands. Packaged into a simple Deb file, Suicide Linux modifies the terminal configuration such that any incorrect, unknown and misspelled commands inputted will delete all data on the hard drive by executing rm -rf /. So those who love to live on the edge, are super duper confident about their terminal skills and want some thrill can try this on Ubuntu.

TeamViewer is an application for remote control, desktop sharing and file transfer between computers, great for meetings, presentations, support and more. It runs on Windows, Mac OSX, Linux (even though it comes in a .deb or .rpm, it uses Wine which comes bundled with it) as well as Android or iPhone. The application is free for personal use only.