February 15, 2013
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It’s almost here! Six weeks after Canonical first revealed that they were throwing their Ubuntu Linux hat into the smartphone ring, the company announced that on February 21, they’ll be releasing the Touch Developer Preview of Ubuntu.
According to Canonical, “Images and open source code for the Touch Developer Preview of Ubuntu will be published on Thursday 21st February, supporting the Galaxy Nexus and Nexus 4 smartphones.”
Ubuntu smartphone developer preview arrives next week. More >
February 15, 2013
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Since the dawn of the Linux penguin there has been one constant user compliant: “Linux won’t run my games!” Those days are now over. Today, February 14th, the Steam gaming client for Ubuntu Linux has arrived.
According to the Canonical blog, “users can now install the Steam Client with a few simple clicks in our Software Center, the fastest and safest way to install thousands of paid and free applications on Ubuntu. Canonical and Valve have worked closely together to make Ubuntu the best performing open platform for gaming and now the ultimate entertainment platform is fully supported.”
PC gaming comes to Ubuntu Linux with Steam client release. More >
February 14, 2013
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While HP still hasn’t made it official, sources are reporting that HP has decided that at least part of its tablet and smartphone future lies not with Windows or WebOS but with Google’s Android. Who’d thought it!?
Well, I for one did. Look at the facts. Apple CEO Tim Cook recently said that in the last quarter Apple sold 23-million iPads, while HP—the world’s largest PC maker—sold 15-million PCs. And, who’s catching up with the iPad in a great hurry? According to IDC that would be Android tablets. Since there’s no way in heaven and earth, HP will ever be selling iPads, HP CEO Meg Whitman is hitching HP’s wagon to Android’s ascending star.
HP bids adieu to WebOS, Windows RT, and says hello to Android. More >
February 13, 2013
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Opera, a Web browser with a small, but loyal, core group of 300-million users, surprised everyone when they moved from its Presto Web rendering engine to the popular open-source Webkit engine. Webkit is best known for being Google’s Chrome and Apple’s Safari Web engine.
Web engines are what take Web page content such as HTML files, and formatting instructions, for example Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and transform these into the page you see on your screen. They are a Web browser’s heart. For Opera, this is no less than a heart transplant.
Opera joins Chrome & Safari in using Webkit for Web-browsing. More >
February 12, 2013
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According to the Guardian, multi-national security company Raytheon has developed Rapid Information Overlay Technology (Riot), a big data, social-networking spy program.
With Riot, a user — typically a government official — will be able to pull together your life-history; your relationships with other people; and the places where you’re most likely to be found. These tracking profiles are based not just on obvious information, such as your listing of a hometown on Facebook or FourSquare GPS location data, but also from “invisible” location metadata from digital photographs.
Raytheon Riot: Defense spying is coming to social networks. More >
February 11, 2013
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There’s a story going around that Microsoft might be porting Office to Linux. If you believe this story, I have a wonderful, lightly used bridge in Brooklyn I’d like to sell you for a mere million dollars cash.