Archive for January, 2010

Appcelerator apps run on Apple iPad

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

The open source Appcelerator Titanium applications framework and runtime will create applications which run on Apple’s new iPad tablet
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UK Government upgrades Open Source policy

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

The Government has revised its 2009 Open Source guidelines and will now require suppliers to show they have considered open source or face disqualification from bidding
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Ubuntu 10.04 LTS search to default to Yahoo!

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

Canonical has announced that Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, the next major release of Ubuntu, will feature Yahoo! as its default search engine thanks to a new revenue sharing deal with the search engine
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Build and manage your own SUSE Linux appliances

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

Novell’s SUSE Appliance Toolkit is aimed at making it easier for software vendors and users to produce and maintain SUSE Linux-based appliances
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Google releases Chrome 4.0 for Windows

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

Four months after the release of version 3.0, Google has announced the release of Chrome version 4.0, which includes several new features and addresses a number of security vulnerabilities
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Kaspersky produces false alarms with Google ads

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

The Russian anti-virus program and G-Data are frequently identifying an alleged trojan called trojan.js.redirector.ar when a web page is accessed
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Red Hat launches opensource.com community site

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

Red Hat has launched opensource.com as a community site for open source.
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CodePlex adds native support for Mercurial

Monday, January 25th, 2010

Microsoft has announced that it has now added support for the Mercurial distributed version control system for its CodePlex open source project hosting site
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Mozilla defends Firefox’s HTML5 support for only Ogg Theora video

Monday, January 25th, 2010

Firefox 3.6 will only display HTML5 video if encoded in the Ogg Theora format and does not work with YouTube’s HTML5 video beta; Mozilla developers have been defending the decision
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Security specialist: USA made Google hack possible

Monday, January 25th, 2010

Backdoors incorporated into internet services aren’t just a device for countering terrorism, they also enable criminals to launch large-scale attacks, warns a well-known security specialist
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