Archive for May, 2010

KDE SC 4.5 Beta 1 released

Thursday, May 27th, 2010

The KDE Project developers have released a first beta for version 4.5 of the KDE Software Compilation, a development preview of the next major release for the popular Linux and Unix desktop
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Intel and Nokia release MeeGo v1.0

Thursday, May 27th, 2010

Intel and Nokia have released version 1.0 of the MeeGo Core Software Platform and the MeeGo Netbook User Experience. The MeeGo Handset User Experience is to follow in June
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Mozilla to bring Firefox bookmarks to the iPhone

Thursday, May 27th, 2010

Mozilla have announced Firefox Home, an iPhone application which is a read only view of Sync for Firefox (formerly Mozilla Labs Weave)
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Microsoft release open source Outlook PST tools

Wednesday, May 26th, 2010

Microsoft have announced two open source projects which are designed to allow developers to work with Outlook’s PST file format
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BitTorrent Inc. open sources new P2P protocol

Wednesday, May 26th, 2010

BitTorrent Inc., the company behind the popular BitTorrent peer-to-peer file sharing protocol, has announced that its uTorrent Transport Protocol (uTP) code is now available as open source
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Fedora 13 released

Wednesday, May 26th, 2010

After six months of development the Fedora Project developers have released version 13 of their Linux distribution, also known as "Goddard", adding a number of new features such as 3D support in the Nouveau drivers
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New phishing attack exploits tabbed browsing

Tuesday, May 25th, 2010

Mozilla’s Aza Raskin has demonstrated a phishing technique which exploits tabbed browsing by changing page contents while the user isn’t looking at the tab
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Nexenta Core Platform 3.0 RC1 released

Tuesday, May 25th, 2010

The Nexenta Project developers have issued the first release candidate for version 3.0 of their Nexenta Core Platform, addressing several issues found in the previous development milestone
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Slackware Linux 13.1 arrives

Tuesday, May 25th, 2010

Almost nine months after the initial release, the developers have released the first point update for Slackware Linux 13
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Ruby on Rails 2.3.6 released, rapidly updated to 2.3.7

Monday, May 24th, 2010

After six months of development, the Rails developers released Ruby on Rails 2.3.6, but only a day later released version 2.3.7 after some bugs were found in code back ported from Rails 3
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