News & Features
The BYOD trend in corporations seems to have taken a casualty; Cisco's Android based Cius tablet is being put on ice as corporations want employees to use their own hardware to plug into the corporate network
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The widget-serving Wookie server, currently in the Apache Incubator, is updated with the old JSP admin pages removed and a switch to JSON support for all REST API calls
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Open Recall is a new space on The H for those things which are too small to package as news but are worth the linkage. Open Recall collates the interesting stories which didn't quite make the cut.
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Microsoft, Citrix, IBM and SAP announced that they have submitted the OData protocol to the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards for standardisation
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Two papers from University of Cambridge security researchers provide insights into the guessing of passwords and what is needed to replace passwords in the future
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The regional court in Munich, Germany has ruled that Motorola is infringing on an SMS messaging patent owned by Microsoft. This means that Microsoft could demand that Motorola stop selling infringing Android mobile devices in Germany
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The 27-year-old operator of the Bredolab botnet has been sentenced to four years in prison. At its peak, the botnet was estimated to have infected more than 30 million Windows PCs and was capable of infecting three million new PCs a month through infected emails
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Microsoft has announced that, in future, the free of charge version of Visual Studio will only be able to create Metro-style applications. This significantly increases the barrier to entry for open source and freeware developers on Windows
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At LinuxTag 2012, the Kanotix development team announced the release of an update to the Hellfire branch and a preview of the Dragonfire branch of its Debian-based live Linux system
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The latest version of the popular package management tool includes many improvements in its internal consistency and header validity checks. It also supports dpkg-style tilde notation and 7zip-compressed sources
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According to a report, members of the development team behind the cross-platform Enyo framework used by the webOS mobile operating system will be leaving HP to join Google
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The release of Fedora is on track for next week as the developers declare the release gold. Meanwhile a beta of Fedora 17 brings the community distribution one step closer to being an option for owners of ARM-based device
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Security researchers from North Carolina State University announced the launch of a new initiative – the Android Malware Genome Project – to find, collect and analyse Android malware and share it with researchers around the world
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The aim of the ODI is to help individuals and companies make use of the increasing amounts of open data being released by the government. The institute is headed by Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Nigel Shadbolt
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The company plans to fund teacher training and teaching aids "such as Raspberry Pi's or Arduino starter kits"
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A survey by the 451 Group reveals that many companies cite freedom from vendor lock-in as a big factor in switching to open source software. The group credits the emerging cloud computing market as an influencing factor
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According to a new report from McAfee, malware has seen significant increases across all platforms in recent months, especially on mobile where threats targeting Android have increased by 1,200 per cent compared to the last quarter
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Researchers have succeeded in manipulating mobile data connections. They did so with the help of feedback from the network operator's firewall
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The H Community Calendar presents the coming month's events in various open source, development, Linux, Unix and other communities, from multi-day conferences to user group get-togethers
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The openSUSE project has announced that this year's openSUSE Conference will take place in Prague and be co-located with the SUSE Labs Conference, Czech LinuxDays and the first ever Gentoo Miniconf. The Call for Papers for the event is now open
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Based on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, version 13 of Linux Mint is now available to download as two different editions, providing a choice of Cinnamon 1.4 or MATE 1.2 as the default desktop environment
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Yahoo's launch of Axis, a new browser and extensions for desktop browsers, was marred when a blogger found that Yahoo had included its private certificate, used for signing the Chrome version of the extension, in the extension
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Google has patched several security holes in its Chrome browser. The update brings the browser's version up to 19.0.1084.52 and fixes two critical vulnerabilities, one of which was discovered by an external researcher
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The new beta should give a smoother experience as project scanning is moved into the background. More Java static analysis, PHP 5.4 and C++11 support also feature in the beta release
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Open Recall: too small to package as news but worth the linkage, Open Recall collates the interesting stories which didn't quite make the cut
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The H Community Calendar - June 2012
