We associate them most with the old Zip drive from computing days of yore, but Iomega are hoping to make a splash in the emerging Internet TV/media centre market with the launch of their Iomega TV with Boxee product.
We got so fed up with Firefox getting slower and slower that we switched to Chrome, but Mozilla’s now gone on the offensive and pointing the blame at the developers of some plug ins.
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If you’ve been feeling the love for the recently released Firefox 4 desktop browser, then steady your heart as Firefox 4 for Android and Maemo is now available as a release candidate.
Already a very popular open source music media manager/player on Windows and Mac, Songbird has now come to the Android platform.
WordPress, the open source Content Management System that powers 13% of the 1,000,000 biggest websites on the planet has just received an update, with version 3.1 being christened ‘Django”’ in honour of the jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt. Which is nice.
Canonical has officially launched the latest version of its popular Linux-based operating system, Ubuntu 10.10, with an attractive interface aimed at impressing netbook users.
The seeds of a real David –v- Goliath battle of the boards have been sown as a big American corporate giant decides to sue a small British start-up – and the Internet appears to be very angry.
After bubbling away in Google’s Labs, an enhanced image quality option for video chat is now ready for public consumption.
Diaspora, an open source open alternative to the monstrously popular social networking site Facebook is set to launch on 15th September.
Describing itself as a “privacy-aware, personally-controlled, do it all, open source social network”, the Diaspora project has been driven by four impossibly fresh-faced New York students – three computer scientists and a mathematician – who have so far raised $200,000 (£140,000) in funding.
Billed as a “timesheet killer,” Toggl is great way for freelancers and team-workers to keep track of their time spent working for The Man.
The free service comes in several flavours: a downloadable desktop widget for Mac, Linux and Windows, an iPhone/Android application and an iGoogle gadget that runs on all the major browsers – Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera.
WordPress – the most popular blog software on the planet and the content management system powering this very site – has just enjoyed a major upgrade to version 3.0.
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The good folks at Mashable have put together an interesting interview with Free Software Foundation and GNU founder Richard Stallman, discussing just how “open” Google really is.
Super beardy Stallman is a bit of a legend amongst the open source cognoscenti, so he’s more qualified than most to take a close, critical look at Google’s claims.
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Ubuntu’s penchant for daft version names for their Linux OS continues with the v9.10 “Karmic Koala” release now being replaced by v10.04 which regales under the name, “Lucid Lynx.”
When it comes to the relatively simple task of watching a video file or getting an earful of an audio file, most people are happy to stick with whatever’s already installed on their machine.
But is there anything better out there?
Clearly hoping to scoop up some of that frenzied iPad buzz, UK company X2 Computing has launched their own “iTablet” range of Windows/Linux-based tablet PCs.
Described as coming “hot on the heels of Apple’s latest product launch,” X2 claims “the iTablet will revolutionise the way that Windows users can access and use data on the move”.
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