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Google on June 15 will launch Chromebook for Business, a hardware, software and cloud service that costs $28 per month. Google Chromebook for Business will include a Chrome OS notebook tied to Google's various cloud services. Is Google about to disrupt the traditional PC and notebook software markets? Here's the analysis live from the Google I/O conference in San Francisco.

Skype has been purchased by Microsoft, for $8.5 Billion. I have used Skype for years on Linux, even though Skype treated their Linux client as something like a red-headed step-child. Features like video chat were always included in the Linux client long after they were in the Windows version, bug fixes were slow, stuff like that. But, and here's the biggest thing: It worked.

Boxee released the second major update to the D-Link Boxee Box’s firmware today. The new v1.1 release adds a variety of content channels for both movies and shows, enhances the Linux-based device’s browser functionality, improves the consistency of its user interface, and squashes numerous bugs.

Timesys announced LinuxLink support for PMC-Sierra's MIPS-based WinPath3-SuperLite networking system on chip (SoC), a scaled-down version of the WinPath3. The company also announced a free Timesys University embedded Linux training series, starting with classes focusing on home automation with the Freescale i.MX51, medical devices employing the i.MX53, and internet radios using the Texas Instruments AM3517.

For me, using multiple browsers is part of my work style. On all of my computers, I switch among several browsers, and I keep finding reasons to come back to SeaMonkey. This latest version is a drastic retooling. Even though its innards are revved up with the Firefox engines, SeaMonkey still has its own personality and is not the Firefox browser.

When you lose your Internet connection is the fault of your ISP? Or is it a problem on your side of your connection? Here is how you find out using standard Linux networking tools, and avoid embarrassing tech support calls that conclude with "Yes, dear customer, you broke it your own self."

Remember how SCO told the court in SCO v. IBM that Linux wasn't ready for the enterprise until IBM got involved in the year 2000 and allegedly worked to make it "hardened" for the enterprise by donating code? It said that it wasn't until 2001, with version 2.4 of Linux, that Linux was ready for enterprise use. Linux, SCO said, was just a bicycle compared to UNIX, the luxury car, until IBM did all that. Not only is that chronology not true, I think I can show you evidence that SCO knew it was not true or could have and should have known. Just in case the case ramps up again in some form, I thought it would be good to add the evidence to our collection.

Over the course of the next few posts, I'm going to teach you a thing or two about cloud computing [ insert appropriate smiley here ]. Seriously, I plan on giving you the basics, introducing you to various tools, frameworks, and technologies with the intention of turning you into a cloud computing guru.

During the Google I/O 2011 keynote address, director of Android product management, Hugo Barra, presented a number of interesting statistics. Google has now activated more than 100 million Android devices worldwide and as of April 2011, Google is activating nearly 400,000 Android devices every single day. That number was just around 100,000 just an year ago!

To help celebrate Linux User’s landmark 100th issue which goes on sale tomorrow, celebrated Linux Kernel contributor, Jon Masters, recounts some of the biggest developments in the Linux Kernel over the magazine’s last 100 issues…

Steel Storm : Burning Retribution is a top down action shooter with old school spirit and beautiful and rich cel-shaded graphics. It marks the return of top-down shooters with new twists. The game has score oriented competitive gameplay, and is designed for people who like fast paced action, hordes of smart enemies, destructible worlds and ground shaking explosions.

Wind River announced a partnership with GoAhead Software whereby the two companies will become & preferred integration partners,& selling GoAhead's OpenSAFfire middleware to embedded Linux customers. The company also announced a & Wind River OpenSAF Quickstart& professional services and technical support package for its OpenSAF customers.

In this installment of our series examining the performance of SandForce-based consumer SSDs we dig into the IOPS performance of the drive. How does it stand up to an enterprise-class SSD? Let's find out.

Mistakes Opera for 'second tier' browser Google I/O Opera CTO Håkon Wium Lie believes Google is missing a serious opportunity in failing to support Opera as a "top tier" browser, especially in Russia, where Opera is the leading browser with 30 to 40 per cent of the market.…

As we've noted before, many trademark owners are none too happy when political activists use their marks as part of a larger statement about the owners' business or political practices. Sometimes, that unhappiness takes the form of improper legal threats and even lawsuits designed to silence critical speech. In a ruling issued today, a federal judge called a halt to one such lawsuit, affirming the essential balance between trademark rights and free speech.

CTK Arch is very interesting distro from my perspective. It is well balanced between graphical and CLI sides of Linux. Maybe I am little bit too inexperienced for it yet, but still can do quite a lot there. I will not recommend CTK Arch for beginners. You need to be prepared to take some of challenges. But..

"Our goal is 200 million users of Ubuntu in 4 years", said Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth, while delivering the keynote address to the attendees of the Ubuntu Developer Summit, currently taking place in Budapest, Hungary.

Stated politely, Canonical is transitioning the Ubuntu Cloud to OpenStack — an open source cloud standard — as a foundation technology. Stated bluntly, Ubuntu is dumping Eucalyptus as a core focus. Here's why.

"So things have been pretty quiet, and unless something major comes up I believe that this will be the last -rc," began Linus Torvalds in announcing the release of the Linux 2.6.39-rc7 kernel.

The news today is that Microsoft seem to be in the process of buying has bought Skype for something around $8.5 billion. So what will happen to Linux support for Skype ? No one knows it at the moment but I can imagine nothing too good, in the best scenario, that I can imagine at the moment, the new Skype servers are still open to Linux clients, but the support on our operating system is left back and over some time using Skype on Linux become almost impossible. But perhaps it’s better to talk to something else…what do you know about XMPP/Jingle ?