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The Symbian Foundation has announced that Lee M. Williams has stepped down from his position as Executive Director for what are described as personal reasons
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Lenovo’s web site for service and support-related training is infected and is spreading the hackload.AD trojan
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The Linux Mint development team have issued a release candidate for what will become version 10 of their Linux Mint operating system, based on Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat"
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The Qt developers at Nokia have released a developers only version of Qt 4.7 for Symbian^3 devices in preparation for bringing the Qt Quick enabled version to users phones at the start of next year
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The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) has accused the Business Software Alliance (BSA) of hampering innovation with its call for patented innovations to be included in open standards
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A new web site offers challenges for cryptographers of all levels
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The Eclipse Foundation wants the OSGi modularity framework in Java 8 and will vote against any JCP proposal that does not include it
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The Amarok Project has announced the start of its 2010 fundraiser campaign, known as "Roktober", and detailed new features for an upcoming release, version 2.4, of the open source music player
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This week The H reported on Ubuntu 10.10, spoke to the CEO of SugarCRM and examined Microsoft’s Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit. Oracle and IBM announced they are to collaborate on OpenJDK, Mozilla appointed a new CEO and Microsoft and Oracle released many security updates
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The open source NoSQL and Big Data database Apache Cassandra has been updated to version 0.6.6 and now allows users to tune performance
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