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Sony Launches New Wireless Technology
(Tuesday, February 09, 2010 11:59:52 AM IST)
Sony has recently announced a high-speed wireless technology named Milimetre-wave Intraconnect Technology, for data transfer, with which Sony products can now interchange data within themselves. The technology employs electromagnetic waves with a frequency from 30 GHz to 300 GHz, and a wavelength between 1mm and 10mm. Because of their high frequency, such waves can transmit data at up to 11Gbps over short distances, according to linuxfordevices.com
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Micro Focus Server Express Remote Development Option
(Monday, February 08, 2010 4:48:36 PM IST)
Using Micro Focus Server Express RDO, customers can now remotely develop, debug and test core COBOL applications in a powerful Eclipse Integrated Development Environment (IDE).
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Linux Mint 8 KDE Edition Released
(Monday, February 08, 2010 12:08:25 PM IST)
Clement Lefebvre has announced the release of the Linux Mint 8 KDE edition. This edition is based on Kubuntu 9.10 and has linux kernel 2.6.31, X.org 7.4. It comes with the KDE 4.3.4 and Amarok 2.21. Further, this release boasts functions like OEM installation and many others, according to distrowatch.com.
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Linus Torvalds Loves Nexus One!
(Monday, February 08, 2010 11:46:40 AM IST)
Linus Torvalds hates phones as he feels they irritate and disturb you while you are working. But of late he seems to have changed his mind and is in love with Google's Nexus One as it is Android-based and runs the kernel that he built. Moreover, it supports GPS and Linus wanted a GPS device for his car. He says that a GPS may finally make a phone useful, reports Katonda.com.
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OpenStreetMap: Wikipedia Of The Mapping World!
(Saturday, February 06, 2010 10:33:35 AM IST)
If you want to find an updated map of Haiti, then there is only one place to go. It is not Google Maps or any of its competitors. It is the OpenStreetMap.org (OSM), reports Guardian. The report says OpenStreetMaps suffers from what might be dubbed "open source syndrome", a complaint that also affects other OS projects, including the Linux operating system.
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Mozilla Warns Users Of Infected Add-ons
(Saturday, February 06, 2010 10:27:58 AM IST)
Mozilla on Friday pulled two programs from its Firefox browser add-on site for containing malware. Sothink Web Video Downloader 4.0 and all versions of Master Filer were found to contain Trojan horse code aimed at Windows users, a report says on CNET News. Mozilla recommends that users who suspect that they are infected by any malware use one of the following security applications to sweep and clean their computers after uninstalling the threatening add-on. The security applications are Antiy-AVL, Avast, AVG, Gdata, Ikarus, K7 AntiVirus, McAfee, Norman, VBA32. Amongst all the applications Avast and AVG are free. However, Mozilla did not immediately respond to requests for comment and users are requested to check the updates on the website.
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NFC Protocol Stack Goes Open Source
(Saturday, February 06, 2010 9:46:40 AM IST)
Inside Contactless, a French semiconductor company, a manufacturer of near field communications chips, is releasing open NFC. Open NFC is the open source version of the NFC protocol stack, which will be for mobile platforms. Open NFC 3.4 is available for Linux 2.6 and Windows CE 6.0, says linuxdfordevices.com.
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Rackmount Automation PC Runs Debian Linux 5.0
(Friday, February 05, 2010 12:53:39 PM IST)
Moxa has announced a rackmount automation computer, DA-710, which according to them will be suitable for industrial automation applications, particularly those in power substations. The USP of the product is four PCI expansion slots, which can accept various modules. Apart from these modules, the system has four Gigabit Ethernet interfaces with RJ45 connectors, four USB 2.0 ports, four digital I/Os, and two RS232 serial ports. DA-710 also contains a 2.0 GHz Intel Celeron M processor and GLE960 northbridge and ICH8M southbridge and weighs 14 kg, according to linuxfordevices.com.
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eBox 1.4 For SMBs
(Friday, February 05, 2010 12:30:48 PM IST)
eBox Technologies has released eBox platform 1.4, an Ubuntu-based server distribution. It offers easy and efficient computer network administration and is suitable for small and medium sized business. The software has got SaaS option, such as remote backup and low-cost VoIP calls to mobile phones and land0lines. Two most important features included in eBox are support for master-slave LDAP servers and Microsoft Windows Active Directory synchronization, according to distrowatch.com.
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Symbian Goes Open Source Ahead Of Deadline
(Friday, February 05, 2010 11:48:26 AM IST)
According to Computerworld.in, Symbian has completed the process of open sourcing its entire code base, in advance of its June deadline. While the release is ahead of schedule, the first phone is expected to be out early next year. The release of the phone is after more than two years after the first Android phone became available. The process of making the Symbian operating system open source started with Nokia’s announcement in June 2008 that it would buy out the rest of Symbian and release the code to the public.
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CM-T3530 Now Available With TI OMAP3530
(Thursday, February 04, 2010 11:58:25 AM IST)
UK-based Anders Electronics has announced a Linux-ready ARM Cortex-A8 COM, that is, CM-T3530. The CM-T3530 is available with either TI OMAP3530 or OMAP3503 and is clocked at 600 MHz or 720 MHz, respectively. The CM-T3530 will have a 256 MB of soldered-on MDDR memory, plus an integral flash disk that can be as large as 512 MB. It will further support TFT, STN or composite displays with resolutions up to 1440 x 1050 pixels. In I/O, it has a camera interface, one USB host/on-the-go, two USB 2.0 host, three serial up to 74 GPIO lines and a audio mic in and stereo out. Its dimension is 6.6cm x 4.4cm, according to Linuxfordevices.com.
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Samsung To Triple Smartphone Shipments In 2010
(Thursday, February 04, 2010 10:45:29 AM IST)
Samsung Electronics targets to triple its shipments of smartphones in 2010, a much higher target than 2009, reports Reuters. The company made the announcement during the launch of its first Android-powered smartphone. In the coming months, Samsung also plans to launch smartphones based on its own operating software 'bada', Android and Windows Mobile.
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Symbian Makes Its Smartphone Software Open Source!
(Thursday, February 04, 2010 10:40:23 AM IST)
The Symbian Foundation says the software that powers the most smartphones in the world is being made largely available for free for anyone to use, reports Yahoo! News. As per the report, Symbian software is used on more than 330 million phones around the world.
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Shrinking Symbian OS Market Share
(Thursday, February 04, 2010 10:38:58 AM IST)
So far largest shareholder in smartphone OS market, Symbian foresees some trail with availability of alternative open source operating systems like Google's Android. "There wasn't an open source alternative until now so we anticipate a proliferation of smartphone and other devices based on Symbian," said Larry Berkin, head of global alliances, Symbian in the U.S. Starting from 4 February 2010, Symbian Foundation is officially making the Symbian version 3 smartphone OS available as open source code, reports EETimes.
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Google Adds 'Pinch-To-Zoom' To Nexus One
(Thursday, February 04, 2010 9:32:20 AM IST)
Google is adding pinch-to-zoom multi-touch and 3G wireless broadband network capabilities to its Nexus One smartphone. The update will allow users to use two-finger pinching motions to zoom into on-screen images in the Internet browser, picture gallery and map applications, according to PHYSORG.com. The software modification will also improve the smartphone's connectivity to 3G networks.
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Norvana Phone To Enable Virtualisation!
(Wednesday, February 03, 2010 11:21:14 AM IST)
Virtualisation in PC has been around for quite sometime now. But, Open Kernel Labs and Citrix Systems announced a virtualisation-driven, cross-platform reference architecture for smartphones that will enable users to access corporate desktops and applications. The hardware which is used in the Norvana phone are processor ARM1136 @528Mhz, with 192 MB RAM memory, a 800 x 600 display resolution, USB 2.0 with host, Bluetooth and 802.11D WiFi or higher, according to linuxfordevices.com.
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Acer Liquid: World's First Android 1.6 Smartphone
(Wednesday, February 03, 2010 10:55:55 AM IST)
Powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon processor, the Liquid comes with a WVGA touchscreen, HSPA connectivity and a 5-megapixel camera.
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Google Pushes To Launch Chrome In Europe
(Wednesday, February 03, 2010 10:15:39 AM IST)
The Internet giant is anxious to increase sales of its Chrome browser and has launched an aggressive advertising campaign.
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17 Mar: Open Source Business Conference
(Tuesday, February 02, 2010 3:23:08 PM IST)
Learn how to transform open source from money-saving tool to competitive advantage at OSBC 2010.
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Firefox 1.0 For Nokia Platform
(Saturday, January 30, 2010 10:49:31 AM IST)
Mozilla has rolled out Firefox 1.0 for Nokia's Maemo platform with third-party, customisable browser extensions. Nokia's open-source, Linux-based Mamo operating system, supports mobile Firefox on just two devices-the N900 and the N810, an Internet tablet, which might limit its popularity. Windows Mobile is slated to be next, with Android to follow, reports Cnet.
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Novell Launches SUSE Appliance Toolkit For ISVs
(Friday, January 29, 2010 10:45:27 AM IST)
The Toolkit features an onsite version of Novell's Linux-based SUSE Studio appliance building tool.
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New Antispam, Email Archive Solutions For Ubuntu Server
(Thursday, January 28, 2010 4:57:38 PM IST)
Instantly transforms any Ubuntu server into a highly scalable email gateway.
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Screenlets Light Up Your Desktop!
(Thursday, January 28, 2010 11:33:36 AM IST)
Now Linux users can level up or even stay ahead in their share of fun, from their Windows or Mac counterparts who are used to having fun with their desktop widgets. Screenlets have arrived! Screenlets are miniature applications that reside on the desktop and provide constant information-everything from system performance readouts to news feeds to photo galleries, reports Technews World. A gallery of entertainment and information, screenlets don't affect the performance of your system. Isn’t that a novel idea!
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Nvidia Launches Next-Generation GPU
(Wednesday, January 27, 2010 4:48:20 PM IST)
Nvidia has announced high-performance parallel computing GPU architecture. The Tesla C2070 and C2050 are PCI Express x16 cards which can turn a Windows or Linux workstation to perform like a small cluster with up to 640 Gigaflops of performance. The devices do not run Windows or Linux directly, rather, they are designed to run C, C++, OpenCl, DirectCompute, or Fortran. The C2070 and C2050 are PCI Express Gen2 cards and include either 3GB or 6GB of onboard GDDR5 memory, respectively. The GPU consumes 190 watts and has a form factor of 40.6; 24.8 x 11.1 cm, according to linuxfordevices.com.
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UK Govt To Use Open Source To Cut Costs
(Wednesday, January 27, 2010 12:04:17 PM IST)
As part of its cost-cutting strategy, the UK government plans to resort to cloud computing and open source technology, such as Linux that could save them billions of pounds. The government unveiled a sweeping strategy to create its own internal "cloud computing" system – such as that used by Google, Microsoft and Amazon – as part of a radical plan that it claims could save up to £3.2 billion a year from an annual bill of at least £16 billion, reports The Guardian.
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