News & Features
Tuesday, 16 Jul 2013
GitHub has taken steps to make it easier to set a licence on a new project and to select an open source licence following criticisms that it was making it too easy to leave unlicensed, copyright code in public
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Monday, 15 Jul 2013
The call for papers for EclipseCon Europe 2013, taking place in Ludwigsburg in October, will be open until 12 August. Interested users and developers can submit proposals for talks and tutorials on a number of topics
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Version 2.0.65 will be the last update to Apache's HTTP Server 2.0. Those who still use it must act now: a security problem will remain unresolved
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Saturday, 13 Jul 2013
In the week ending 13 July - Hardware destruction, OS switcharound, Open Source laptops, Android code-signing holes, shiny new Chrome, vulnerability custody fights, language surveys and zombie backdoors
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Friday, 12 Jul 2013
In this edition: Nokia Imaging, Perforce betas, QML for WebApps, REST for C++, Amazon SDKs and a blog about D
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Verizon is the latest member of Canonical's Carrier Advisory Group. Canonical has also clarified launch plans, saying only two CAG members will be involved in the initial launch
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Now developers can test how their apps work with receipts from the Mozilla Marketplace, making life easier for those who want to make some money from their HTML5 web applications
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Thursday, 11 Jul 2013
Along with a reworked licensing model for the JavaScript platform, the company behind Wakanda, 4D, has added new interface widgets, CSS themes, and features for improved session and permissions management
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The SpringSource tool suites are updated for Eclipse Kepler and enhanced with quick search, curated preferences, Spring 4 and Grails 2.3 readiness, fresh components and better memory usage and performance
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The developers have managed to extend the previous version's experimental cluster support, which has now become an official feature. "Coltrane" also offers a preview of Typed Channels
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Distributed counters and better storage formats are among the enhancements in the Riak NoSQL key/value distributed database. There are also improvements in multi-datacentre support and in secondary indexing
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Intel, Samsung and the Linux Foundation have together announced the "Tizen App Challenge" to promote the development of apps for the Tizen mobile operating system. The development contest offers prizes of up to $200,000
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The next version of Wildfly will include Undertow, a new, performant and non-blocking web server. WildFly is the new name that's been given to the JBoss application server to distinguish it from Red Hat's middleware products
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Wednesday, 10 Jul 2013
The July editions of the TIOBE and PYPL programming indexes offer different conclusions. One of them considers the PHP scripting language to be the fastest climber of the year, while the other observes its continued decline
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Tuesday, 09 Jul 2013
The technology for simplifying development of n-tier solutions for rich internet applications will be carried forward as Open RIA Services under the umbrella of the Outercurve Foundation
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The latest release of the open source hypervisor brings a technology preview of support for ARMv7 and ARMv8 platforms and security improvements to the virtual Trusted Platform Module (vTPM)
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The new leader in Android versions is the combination of Android 4.1 and 4.2, pushing Gingerbread into second place. Another milestone is approaching too as Android 4.x closes on two thirds market share
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Monday, 08 Jul 2013
Billing itself as the alternative to Apache Solr, Searchdaimon Enterprise Search, which has been available since 2006, is now being open sourced as its developers pivot to offer service, support and cloud-hosted versions of it
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Saturday, 06 Jul 2013
In the week ending 6 July - the 3.10 Linux kernel and Fedora 19 are released, Ubuntu's Mir plans raise eyebrows, the first Firefox OS phones arrive in the market, and German intelligence services are spying on the country's backbone
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Friday, 05 Jul 2013
Mozilla's safe, concurrent Rust language gets more refinements in version 0.7 covering copying/cloning, numeric handling and traits, packaging and iterators
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A security hole made CryptoCat-encrypted chat logs vulnerable between October 2011 and June 2013. A security expert says that seemingly secure chat recordings can be decrypted within minutes
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Thursday, 04 Jul 2013
The latest version of the system management tool takes the first steps towards taking control of interactions with the kernel's cgroups
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Developed by a researcher at Indiana University, the language was created when investigating which characteristics are required for a language designed from the start to support GPU programming
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GitHub unveils a new workflow and a new way to deliver releases of a project on GitHub to end users, filling a gap left by last year's shut down of the Downloads option
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The latest release of the C++ user interface development framework includes various noteworthy new features that weren't expected in this form when development started
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