RIM releases the "more social" BlackBerry Messenger 6 service to share apps, the BBC launches a paid version of its iPlayer service for the iPad, and Nintendo dramatically drops the price of its 3DS handheld game device after lackluster sales.
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Microsoft managed to keep its 12,000 or so attendees of its annual Microsoft Global Exchange sales conference from tweeting and blogging company secrets last week. But at least one enterprising attendee managed to grab one of those infamous sales videos that the company loves to show at these events.
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Linux and Open Source: "So, it does not matter that the cloud is built primarily on open source technologies, notably Linux?"
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Google: LevelDB is a fast key-value storage engine written at Google that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values and it's now open source.
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The latest LED bulbs are brighter and give off a more even light than their predecessors, making energy-efficient LEDs more versatile.
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Linux and Open Source: "Most people, who like Linux, love Ubuntu. Oh they may object to Ubuntu's new Unity desktop, but at day's end, they still use Ubuntu."
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With its new Page Speed Service, Google will rewrite your Web page and host it on its own servers. Unlike previous efforts to speed the Web, this one isn't free.
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Ubuntu: Lubuntu is a distribution based on Ubuntu, and the LXDE desktop environment..and we're now an official release version of Ubuntu.
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The electronics giant reported a net loss for the first quarter due largely to the effects of the Japanese earthquake but also a decline in the TV business, prompting it to lower its full year forecast.
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ServerWatch:OpenStack is getting a big vote of confidence from Dell...and they're doing it with some help from Ubuntu too.
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Bitdefender releases its 2012 suites with an interesting and effective mix of security tools based on both cloud-based definitions and behavioral detections, exclusive today to CNET Download.com.
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Nintendo saw its revenue slip 50.2 percent year over year during the company's last-reported quarter, due to slumping hardware and software sales.
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The company added 1.1 million net new customers, but lost 101,000 contract subscribers as iPhones at Verizon Wireless and AT&T applied additional competitive pressure.
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opensource.com: Bob Young knows about open source and innovation.
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Debian: The introduction of "multiarch support" is now a release goal for the coming Debian release 7 "Wheezy" to be released in 2013
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Linux.com: "BrowserID lets site owners offer their visitors a way to log in and leave comments or use Web applications, but one that relies only on email address verification: no per-site passwords, no centralized, external identity providers."
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eSecurityPlanet: The popular open source penetration testing framework has grown up and now has more automation and integration.
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KDE.org: New KDE Applications, Workspaces and Development Platform Releases Bring New Features, Improve Stability
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Robust identity protection arrives in the new AVG Premium Security 2011, for people who are willing to pay a premium.
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Fox is going to make it harder for Web viewers who don't pay for content to access its shows and other TV networks are likely to follow, says Dan Rayburn, a longtime streaming-media expert. He argues that the Web-video ecosystem just can't support top-quality content without charging.
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In the trade-off between speed and security, big traders are choosing speed to maximize profits.
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Aquatic robot out of China can walk and turn freely on the surface of water by mimicking insects that can do the same.
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FOSS Force: "Now that Microsoft and SUSE have announced they plan to continue sleeping together, I wonder if the folks at Techrights are rethinking their plans to pull the plug on Boycott Novell?"
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NASA's solar-powered Juno spacecraft, centerpiece of a $1.1 billion mission to Jupiter, will spend a year orbiting the solar system's largest planet to study the formation and evolution of the solar system.
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OSTATIC: "During his time as Mandriva he wore several hats and one of which was in the trenches coding some of Mandriva's handiest tools. He has updated and placed them in a github directory for any distribution to use."
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