News & Features
A new patent agreement gives users of Moonlight, a Silverlight implementation, more legal security. But the situation for Linux distributors will probably not improve
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A hacker uses Amazon's Kindle software for Windows to simplify a DRM hack for Kindle e-books that has been around for quite a while. Technology magazine Wired, on the other hand, demonstrates how to use an international Kindle to access Amazon's US Kindle shop and a fully functional browser
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An initial analysis found that Google's distorted letter images could be automatically detected, but the search engine giant countered that only outdated versions could. Now, the author has taken a closer look at current CAPTCHAs
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The US Patent Office's Board of Patent Appeals has put a further stop to the granting of patents for mathematical formulae and software "per se"
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Just in time for Christmas, Sabayon Linux founder Fabio Erculiani has announced the availability of a "Gaming" Edition of version 5.1 of his popular Linux distribution, featuring a number of free and open source games
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The Cygwin developers have announced the availability of version 1.7.1 of their Linux-like environment and command-line interface for Windows, adding support for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2
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For the time being the municipal authority of the Austrian capital has decided against switching entirely to open source. Instead, the city has chosen a two-track system: administrative staff can choose between Windows and Linux, between MS Office and its open source counterpart, OpenOffice
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The VideoLAN Project developers behind the popular open source VLC Media Player are expected to officially announce the addition of a new video editing project called the VideoLAN Movie Creator
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Next year's O'Reilly Open Source Convention will take place from the 19th to the 23rd of July, 2010 in Portland, Oregon and the organisers are now accepting proposals
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Mozilla contributor Stephen Horlander has revealed a number of new design mock-ups for the Windows version of Firefox 4, including a new "application button"
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The XO-3 laptop will be a minimalist tablet that will feature an 8.5 by 11 inch touch screen, a virtual keyboard and a camera on the back. The device is targeted for release in 2012
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The US Government has announced Howard A. Schmidt as its new US National Cybersecurity Coordinator. The former police officer previously held executive security positions, such as Chief Security Officer at Microsoft and eBay
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Groovy 1.7, the open source dynamic has been released with more "Java friendliness", enhanced annotations and improved assertions
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While USB flash drives and digital photo frames are popular presents, recipients are advised to treat them with distrust. These devices may already be loaded with malware
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The Songbird developers have released version 1.4.2 of their open source media player (a rapid bug fix of 1.4.1) adding support for Mass Storage Class devices and CD ripping
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The OpenOffice developers have announced the first release candidate for what will become version 3.2 of their free open source office suite, improving its start up time and adding several new features
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In version 1.0.0, of the digiKam photo management tool the developers have added new features and fixed numerous bugs found in the beta
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According to StatCounter, Firefox 3.5 is the most used browser version, narrowly beating Internet Explorer 7
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Although the first websites are already exploiting the hole in Adobe Reader, Adobe does not plan to release an "emergency patch" before January 12, 2010. The vendor says that other holes would remain open if it did so
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The KDE project has released the second beta for what will become version 4.4 of the KDE Software Compilation, adding a number of new features and applications to the popular open source desktop, applications and development platform
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A port of the Qt toolkit to Google's Native Client allows Qt applications to run as applets in a browser
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The collectd developers have released version 4.9 of their open source tool for collecting, transferring and storing system performance statistics, adding a number of new features and plugins
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Early plans for NetBeans 6.9 include major enhancements to the NetBeans Rich Client Platform for Java developers
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Bad Homburg-based OTRS AG, the company behind open source help desk system Open Ticket Request System, will go public on the stock exchange on 23rd December
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The Tiny Core developers have released version 2.7 of their popular minimal Linux distribution, reducing its overall size to just 10.1 MB
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