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The KDE edition of Linux Mint 12 is based on Ubuntu 11.10 and includes version 4.7.4 of KDE as its default desktop environment and a number of new and updated packages
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The eleventh international Samba conference, the Samba eXPerience, will take place from 8 to 11 May 2012 in Göttingen, Germany and its organisers are now accepting submissions for papers, presentations and talks
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The "Spark" tablet is expected to become available in May and appears to be based on "Mer", an operating system that was developed in the MeeGo environment
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ActiveState's development environment now includes collaboration and synchronisation tools as well as code profiling features, and has been integrated with the company's Stackato Platform-as-a-Service product
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The total number of Android devices running versions 2.2 or greater has moved past the 90% mark. Older versions are losing share but the very latest, Ice Cream Sandwich, is only gaining slowly
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Google has disclosed that it has, for the last year, been using a system called Bouncer to scan the Android Market for malware and says there was a 40% decline in downloads of malicious software in 2011
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The lure was a well-made invitation to a prestigious conference which then injected spyware into employee's computers
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A version of Alfresco on Amazon's EC2 with 10 GB of storage will be free for all, while subscriptions to the service will offer more storage, support and integration options
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In late 2011, the US corporation notified the authorities of several intrusions into its IT systems in 2010. However, no important information is believed to have been stolen
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The PHP developers are working to fix a critical security vulnerability in PHP that they introduced in a previous security patch. The full impact of the problem is not yet known
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Messaging and collaboration specialist Zarafa has announced the launch of git.zarafa.com, which it says should help developers contribute and get real time updates
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Version 2.6.12 of the open source GIMP image editing application will be the final 2.6 stable series update as the developers shift all of their focus to completing work on version 2.8, the project's next major release
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The Qt developers have released Qt SDK 1.2 as a "new baseline" for users of the cross platform UI toolkit and developers targeting MeeGo and Symbian devices
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The EU project is working to develop a new tool chain for embedded multi-core processors based on the Scilab open source software. Its goal is to make the same efficient tool chain available for different architectures
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Following a joint operation by Microsoft and Kaspersky Lab last September to disrupt Kelihos, the spam-sending botnet is now said to be making a comeback and using new techniques
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RAP mobile is based on the Eclipse Rich Ajax Platform (RAP) and allows developers to write native mobile apps in Java. A native client application uses the iOS and Android widget toolkits for rendering the UI
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Android applications running on some HTC smartphones can access the passwords of the Wi-Fi networks they are connected to and potentially send that information to third parties. HTC has release updates for the affected devices
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Twitter's quick start kit for projects, Bootstrap, has been refreshed and updated with a new 12 column responsive grid, improved components, and a "Customize" page that allows developers to download only what they need
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The company has released Mac OS X 10.7.3 and, for users who have yet to upgrade from 10.6.8 to Lion, Security Update 2012-001. The updates address more than 50 security vulnerabilities that could be exploited to, for example, remotely execute arbitrary code
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The new release of the VP8 SDK sees a 10% performance improvement decoding on x86 processors
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Nearly a year and a half after the fork of LibreOffice from OpenOffice.org, The Document Foundation has decided that it should be legally established in Berlin
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Microsoft says it is committed to resolving issues with its OpenStack support for Hyper-V. The company is also working with the OpenNebula project to move it beyond a prototype Hyper-V driver
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The Wayland developers are working towards releasing in the near future various central Wayland components as version 1.0, the project's first stable release
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Enterprises can now make use of the almost-annually updated Firefox ESR release as Mozilla makes good on its plans to let organisations who need to test applications before deployment off the Firefox rapid release train
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Version 1.2.12-10 of the Clonezilla live Linux distribution brings updates to the underlying OS and Linux kernel on which it is based, as well as a new version of the Partclone partition image utility
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Break-ins at domain registrar VeriSign in 2010 
