Archive for April, 2010

Microsoft contributing to Joomla! CMS

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

The Joomla! developers have announced that Microsoft has signed the Joomla! Contributor Agreement (JCA) and has already begun contributing code
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Riptano to provide support for Apache Cassandra

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

Founded by a leading Cassandra developer, new company Riptano offers training, consulting, and support for the Apache Cassandra NoSQL database
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ASUS is working on an Eee Pad

Monday, April 26th, 2010

The ASUS Android-based tablet is expected to be launched in July and will include a camera, USB ports and Flash Player
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x264 gains Blu-ray capability

Monday, April 26th, 2010

The developers of the x264 encoding library and tools have announced that the x264 library is now capable of generating Blu-ray compliant streams.
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JSF implementation Apache MyFaces 2.0 released

Monday, April 26th, 2010

The popular Apache implementation of Java virtualisation technology JavaServer Faces introduces Facelets and for the first time includes a JavaScript library as a fixed component of the technology
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X-Server problems in Ubuntu 10.04 release candidate

Sunday, April 25th, 2010

Users testing Ubuntu 10.04 release candidate are being asked to pay attention to a possible memory hole in X-Server and to test a bug fix if they are affected
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The H Week – Oracle, Microsoft, Debian, McAfee and Photocopiers

Sunday, April 25th, 2010

In the past week, Oracle charged for a previously free plug-in, Microsoft got its FAT patent back, Debian got a new leader, RHEL6 previewed, McAfee’s update took Windows systems down and there was wider recognition that photocopiers with internal disks are a security risk
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Lost+Found: rickrolling, paper tiger, pay-per-install, tattoos, pretty weapons

Saturday, April 24th, 2010

Too short for news, too good to lose; Lost+Found is a round up of useful security information. Today, a rickroll protector, an attack of impotence, friendly bot herders, tattooing passwords and guns disguised as toys
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German appeal court upholds Microsoft FAT patent

Saturday, April 24th, 2010

The German appeal court has overturned a decision by the German Federal Patent Tribunal to declare Microsoft’s patent for the File Allocation Table (FAT) file system invalid and declared that its commercial rights are enforceable
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Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit videos now available

Saturday, April 24th, 2010

The Linux Foundation has released videos of the keynotes and panels from the recent Collaboration Summit
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