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HP is planning to license WebOS making it available to rival manufacturers. While this will expand the WebOS developer pool, it could also cannibalize HP hardware sales leaving HP in a difficult position.

Mozilla has number-creep on the brain. After dealing with Firefox 3.6.17's abrupt end of life in favor of 4.0, and then 4.0's deprecation in favor of 5.0 (and yes, I had to change repositories every time because Linux in general and Debian in particular doesn't force new software on users), now I learn that Thunderbird is jumping from 3.1 to 5.0.

Most Linux photographers use graphical applications like digiKam, Rawstudio, or darktable as their tools of choice for processing and managing photos. But it is possible to set up a photographic workflow built around command-line tools that can handle a wide range of photographic tasks.

Yesterday night Google calmly launched Google Plus; Google’s anticipated and rather rumored social networking website. Though according to Alexa, Google yet ranks as the top site on the web and Facebook is placed in the second position;

Bridge construction set (also referred as Pontifex II) is now available in available in Ubuntu Software Center under the purchase section. The game which tests your bridge constructions skills has received great reviews from critics and users and has won many awards. Released back in 2002 and developed by Chronic Logic, Bridge Construction Set is about designing and building bridges and then stress testing them to see how these creations hold up under pressure. When test vehicles pass over these bridges and make it safely across you know you've succeeded. If they plummet into the river you know you need to go back to the drawing board. So, you must build a bridge that doesn't break in any condition, although breaking and plunging a train into the watery depths can be half the fun.

Microsoft launching Office 365 on June 28, but the cloud computing celebration started on June 27 at Zimbra — an open source email platform owned by VMware. Here's why there's celebration within the halls of Zimbra.

Isolator++ For Linux Enables C++ developers on the Linux platforms to Isolate code and perform mocking easily – Typemock now providing Easy Unit Testing Solutions for Multiple Platforms – Windows .NET, C++ and Linux C++

Which GNU/Linux distribution a person prefers is a very individual choice. Some people like distributions that give them total access: the freedom to do whatever they want. Others want a desktop OS that will hold their hand if they run into problems. There is no single distribution that provides all of the right answers; each GNU/Linux user has to find the operating system distribution that best meets their own needs. In this week’s TLWIR, I will look at some of the best GNU/Linux distributions with a unique twist: I will compare the distribution to the city that I think most embodies its fundamental spirit.

Phoronix has identified the Linux power regression problems it previously noted in Linux 2.6.38 as being related to Active-State Power Management (ASPM) code for PCI Express -- and has published a workaround. The problem, which can result in low battery life with Ubuntu 11.04 and Fedora 15, have been confirmed by Tom's Hardware Guide.

Unfortunately I had to keep working with Windows because of my need for some software that lacks on support for Linux, that simple fact was driving me crazy.... ...I hope this is the day I can say Good by Microsoft Windows, hope to never see you again...

What if while working on a very important document in Google Docs, you forgot an essential keyboard shortcut? Googling for it only disrupts the workflow. Fortunately, the big G has a very simple solution to that problem.

Famously, the Gilligan's Island theme song, in its first season, left out mentioning the Professor and Mary Ann characters by name, simply including the "…And the Rest" in that lyric where their names later were heard. Mystery Science Theater 3000 even spoofed this issue during screening of This Island Earth, in which the actor Russell Johnson (The Professor) appeared. When Johnson first appears on screen while viewing This Island Earth, MST3K's Mike says over the film: "Hey, what's this "…And the Rest" Crap!?!". Indeed, what's that all about?

Sony CEO Howard Stringer told shareholders that his company was the target of hacker attacks in April “because we tried to protect our IP (intellectual property), our content, in this case videogames.”

In April Sony was forced to take its PlayStation Network (PSN) offline for several weeks after hackers broke in and stole information from more than 70 million user accounts, finally relaunching it in May. A similar attack also affected Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) servers, which control Sony’s online role-playing games. Combined, more than 100 million user accounts were affected.

Sun sets on UltraSparc I through IV+ Oracle is putting the finishing spit and polish on its impending Solaris 11 Unix operating system, but if you're hoping to plunk it on some vintage iron – or even some machines that are really not so old at all – you're going to be disappointed.…

T-Mobile unveiled an Android 2.3-based 4G slider phone with an advanced camera. HTC's MyTouch 4G Slide is equipped with a 1.2GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, a 3.7-inch, WVGA touchscreen, and an eight-megapixel camera with dual LED flash, & zero& shutter lag, a backside illuminated sensor, and a wide aperture f/2.2 lens, says the carrier....

In a previous article extended file attributes were presented. These are additional bits of metadata that are tied to the file and can be used in a variety of ways. One of these ways is to add checksums to the file so that corrupted data can be detected. Let's take a look at how we can do this including some simple Python examples.

Almost any IT related job requires interacting with an operating system at some point, and between them Windows and RedHat Linux cover a large portion of the market. Obviously your choice of certification will depend largely on the equipment you are working with, but with that disclaimer aside, which certification is should you be most proud of?

Android is a software stack for mobile devices that includes and operating system, middleware and key applications. It is one of the most popular OS in the market and is also a good platform for getting things done. There are a lot of Android apps, many designed to help users be more productive, but finding them can often be a burden.

Overall, there are more than 150,000 Android apps. We conducted a survey in our office and found the following 5 applications to be the most used among Android users. Let's take a detailed look at them.

Red Hat came a step closer to its goal of being the first Linux vendor to make $1 billion in revenue in one year while taking another step with its MRG offering. The GNOME foundation and Sabayon Linux also saw forward momentum, and Linux 3.0 got a speed bump.

This tutorial explains the installation of a Samba fileserver on OpenSUSE 11.4 and how to configure it to share files over the SMB protocol as well as how to add users. Samba is configured as a standalone server, not as a domain controller. In the resulting setup, every user has his own home directory accessible via the SMB protocol and all users have a shared directory with read-/write access.