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  • Android Malware May Have Infected 5 Million Users

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    timothy
    27 Jan 2012 | 11:01 pm
    bonch writes "A massive Android malware campaign may be responsible for duping as many as 5 million users into downloading the Android.Counterclan infection from the Google Android Market. The trojan collects the user's personal information, modifies the home page, and displays unwanted advertisements. It is packaged in 13 different applications, some of which have been on the store for at least a month. Several of the malicious apps are still available on the Android Market as of 3 P.M. ET. Symantec has posted the full list of infected applications."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

  • [Poll] Does An Open Source webOS Have A Legitimate Future ...

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    erdemozkan
    27 Jan 2012 | 2:00 pm
    Web 2.0 News Tip A Click on the title above takes you to the original page of this article! Jan 27, 2012 ReadWriteWeb / Dan Rowinski121 Shares. This week, Hewlett-Packard announced the open source roadmap for webOS

  • Units of measurement for Ada 3.2

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    os-releases
    27 Jan 2012 | 5:42 pm
    The library provides an implementation of dimensioned values for Ada. Unit checks are made at run-time, if not optimized out by the compiler. SI and irregular measurement units are supported. Shifted units like degrees Celsius are supported too. Conversions from and back to strings are provided for all various irregular units. An extensive set of GTK widgets for dealing with dimensioned values is included, though use of GTK is not mandatory for the rest of the library. Release Notes: The procedure Put in Measures_UTF8_Edit has the additional parameters Field, Justify, and Fill. Fedora and…

  • Airtime 2.0 features improved Icecast, SHOUTcast, SoundCloud integration

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    27 Jan 2012 | 7:55 am
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  • iPhone 4S's Siri Is a Bandwidth Guzzler

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    timothy
    28 Jan 2012 | 1:55 am
    Frankie70 writes "'Siri's dirty little secret is that she's a bandwidth guzzler, the digital equivalent of a 10-miles-per-gallon Hummer H1.' A study by Arieso shows that users of the iPhone 4S demand three times as much data as iPhone 3G users and twice as much as iPhone 4 users, who were identified as the most demanding in a 2010 study. 'In all, Arieso says that the Siri-equipped iPhone 4S "appears to unleash data consumption behaviors that have no precedent."'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.
 
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  • iPhone 4S's Siri Is a Bandwidth Guzzler

    timothy
    28 Jan 2012 | 1:55 am
    Frankie70 writes "'Siri's dirty little secret is that she's a bandwidth guzzler, the digital equivalent of a 10-miles-per-gallon Hummer H1.' A study by Arieso shows that users of the iPhone 4S demand three times as much data as iPhone 3G users and twice as much as iPhone 4 users, who were identified as the most demanding in a 2010 study. 'In all, Arieso says that the Siri-equipped iPhone 4S "appears to unleash data consumption behaviors that have no precedent."'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

  • Android Malware May Have Infected 5 Million Users

    timothy
    27 Jan 2012 | 11:01 pm
    bonch writes "A massive Android malware campaign may be responsible for duping as many as 5 million users into downloading the Android.Counterclan infection from the Google Android Market. The trojan collects the user's personal information, modifies the home page, and displays unwanted advertisements. It is packaged in 13 different applications, some of which have been on the store for at least a month. Several of the malicious apps are still available on the Android Market as of 3 P.M. ET. Symantec has posted the full list of infected applications."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

  • Sea Water Could Cause Uranium Pollution From Nuclear Fuel Rods

    timothy
    27 Jan 2012 | 10:00 pm
    New submitter Required Snark writes "UC Davis researchers have found a mechanism where the sodium in sea water can cause uranium nano-particles to be released from nuclear reactor fuel rods. Normally the uranium oxide compounds composing the rods are very resistant to leaching into water. This could have serious consequences for the Fukushima disaster, since sea water was used for emergency cooling."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

  • How Allan Scherr Hacked Around the First Computer Password

    timothy
    27 Jan 2012 | 8:11 pm
    New submitter MikeatWired writes "If you're like most people, you're annoyed by passwords. So who's to blame? Who invented the computer password? They probably arrived at MIT in the mid-1960s, when researchers built a massive time-sharing computer called CTSS. Technology changes. But, then again, it doesn't, writes Bob McMillan. Twenty-five years after the fact, Allan Scherr, a Ph.D. researcher at MIT in the early '60s, came clean about the earliest documented case of password theft. In the spring of 1962, Scherr was looking for a way to bump up his usage time on CTSS. He had been allotted…

  • January 28 is Data Privacy Day

    timothy
    27 Jan 2012 | 7:08 pm
    An anonymous reader writes "A bit early, but just a reminder that January 28 is international Data Privacy Day in the U.S., Canada, and many European countries. Various events are being held around the globe: the head of the FTC opened a weekend forum on the topic by calling out Facebook and Google, the Ontario Privacy Commissioner is holding a symposium on 'Surveillance by Design', and of course Google recently announced they'll be tracking you more thoroughly in the future."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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  • OSI Reform At FOSDEM

    webmink
    25 Jan 2012 | 9:55 am
    In preparation for my keynote at FOSDEM, I was interviewed by the team who have just posted the interview. In particular, I noted this background to the governance reform, which readers here might find useful: Why exactly did OSI decide to reorganize its governance from a board-only organization into a member-based structure?read more

  • FLOSS Body of Knowledge

    tonyw
    19 Jan 2012 | 8:14 pm
    As courses, certificates, and curricula are created, it's valuable to bring together people who are working to develop and deliver this material into a community where we can jointly define a central body of knowledge related to free, libre, and open source software. That goal has led me to take the first step toward creating this body of knowledge, termed FLOSSBOK. The initial outline, intentionally very brief, can be found on our FLOSS Competency Center site. read more

  • OSI Opposes SOPA and PIPA

    webmink
    18 Jan 2012 | 12:58 pm
    The Open Source Initiative Board joined many other civil society organizations as co-signatories of an open letter expressing concern about SOPA and PIPA. As human rights and press freedom advocates, we write to express our deep concern about S. 968, the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA), and the threat it poses to international human rights. Like H.R. 3261, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), PIPA requires the use of internet censorship tools, undermines the global nature of the internet, and threatens free speech online.read more

  • Mozilla Releases OSI-Approved MPLv2

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    9 Jan 2012 | 12:13 pm
    Last week saw a quiet landmark in the history of the open source movement with the formal release of version two of the Mozilla Public License (MPLv2) and its approval as an official open source license. While to many it may look like just another legal detail, it is significant both for the way it was conducted and for the intent with which it has been created. This is a license aimed at unity. read more

  • Open Source receives official support in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)

    kon
    20 Dec 2011 | 8:56 am
    On November 11, 2011, the government of the State of Rio de Janeiro - the second largest state in Brazil in terms of population and GDP - published a new law, which mandates public entities and companies in Rio de Janeiro to give preference to open document formats, in particular ODF. The publication of Law #5978/2011 was celebrated in an official event with representatives from the government, several state companies, and the FLOSS community. read more
 
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  • HP CEO Whitman: Some WebOS People Are Leaving, And That's OK - CRN

    27 Jan 2012 | 7:12 pm
    HP CEO Whitman: Some WebOS People Are Leaving, And That's OKCRNBy Kevin McLaughlin, CRN Hewlett Packard's WebOS business unit has been mired in uncertainty since the company abruptly dirt-napped the TouchPad last August, but HP is confident that the open-source course it's charting with WebOS will lead to a and more »

  • S. Korea to open integrated information centre on N. Korea - BusinessGhana

    27 Jan 2012 | 6:06 pm
    Telegraph.co.ukS. Korea to open integrated information centre on N. KoreaBusinessGhanaSouth Korea plans to launch an open source centre on North Korea next month that will provide consolidated information on the isolated communist country, an official said Thursday. The Open Source Centre is designed to collect foreign information made Sock on that, Kim: South Korea floats footwear to communist NorthNEWS.com.auall 705 news articles »

  • Enterprise Hadoop: Big data processing made easier - InfoWorld

    27 Jan 2012 | 3:36 pm
    Enterprise Hadoop: Big data processing made easierInfoWorldAt least a half-dozen or more other open source tools live in a stable orbit around Hadoop. The open source projects are just the beginning -- a surprisingly large number of companies are emerging with the plan of helping people actually use Hadoop.and more »

  • Ask and Answer Questions About Paid Versus Open Source Software - Lifehacker

    27 Jan 2012 | 2:11 pm
    Ask and Answer Questions About Paid Versus Open Source SoftwareLifehackerIt's a debate that has been ongoing for decades: is it ideal for software to be free and open source, or closed source with a price tag attached? It's a tough call to make, especially when each side has a nearly equal number of advantages and and more »

  • [Poll] Does An Open Source webOS Have A Legitimate Future? - ReadWriteWeb

    27 Jan 2012 | 1:32 pm
    [Poll] Does An Open Source webOS Have A Legitimate Future?ReadWriteWebAs you're exploring these resources, check out this helpful resource from our sponsors: Cultivating a Developer Ecosystem: Understanding Their Needs This week, Hewlett-Packard announced the open source roadmap for webOS along with the next edition of
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  • Extended Module Player 3.5.0

    os-releases
    27 Jan 2012 | 10:40 pm
    The Extended Module Player is a command-line mod player for Unix-like systems that plays over 90 mainstream and obscure module formats from Amiga, Atari, Acorn, Apple IIgs, C64, and PC, including Protracker (MOD), Scream Tracker 3 (S3M), Fast Tracker II (XM), and Impulse Tracker (IT) files. Release Notes: This release fixes AMF effects, sample and track loading, XM note cutting quirks, replaying with combined pattern delay and pattern break effects, and OpenBSD sound driver configuration. It adds support for ZX Spectrum Sound Tracker modules. Release Tags: Minor bugfixes, Minor feature…

  • OPUS 4.2.0

    os-releases
    27 Jan 2012 | 10:40 pm
    OPUS is a repository software. OPUS can archive electronic documents to make them available for users to search, to browse, and to simplify the publishing process. OPUS is one of the most frequently utilized repository management systems in German libraries. Release Notes: This release adds XML-based importation, improved series support, greatly-enhanced RSS feeds for search queries, and validation of XML-based document types. It fixes several validation issues, wildcard searches, and collision checking for URNs. Tags: Repository, Archiving, OAI-PMH, Document Repositories, Document Management…

  • Units of measurement for Ada 3.2

    os-releases
    27 Jan 2012 | 5:42 pm
    The library provides an implementation of dimensioned values for Ada. Unit checks are made at run-time, if not optimized out by the compiler. SI and irregular measurement units are supported. Shifted units like degrees Celsius are supported too. Conversions from and back to strings are provided for all various irregular units. An extensive set of GTK widgets for dealing with dimensioned values is included, though use of GTK is not mandatory for the rest of the library. Release Notes: The procedure Put in Measures_UTF8_Edit has the additional parameters Field, Justify, and Fill. Fedora and…

  • pf-kernel 3.2.2-pf

    os-releases
    27 Jan 2012 | 5:42 pm
    pf-kernel is a fork of the Linux kernel. It provides useful features that are not merged into the mainline, such as the bfs scheduler and tuxonice. Release Notes: The kernel has been updated to version 3.2.2. Release Tags: Major security fixes Tags: Linux, kernel, fork Licenses: GPLv2

  • Burp 1.3.0

    os-releases
    27 Jan 2012 | 5:42 pm
    Burp is a program to backup and restore data. It uses librsync in order to save on the amount of space that is used by each backup. It also uses VSS (Volume Shadow Copy Service) to make snapshots when backing up Windows computers. Release Notes: This release adds a mechanism for automatically upgrading clients. It fixes a bug where attributes on Windows directories were not getting read properly. It fixes a rounding problem in remaining time estimation in the status monitor. There are various small bugfixes. Windows depkgs have been upgraded to the latest versions of OpenSSL. Windows…
 
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  • Microsoft to become a gaming powerhouse - MyBroadband

    28 Jan 2012 | 4:12 am
    MyBroadbandMicrosoft to become a gaming powerhouseMyBroadbandAndrew is a qualified systems engineer and software developer; an avid open source enthusiast; and a keen follower of the information and technology sector. He... Once praised for their ability to innovate in all spheres of technology, Microsoft seems and more »

  • Is WebOS the Next Desktop Linux, Java or Symbian? - CIO

    27 Jan 2012 | 7:10 pm
    Tech DigestIs WebOS the Next Desktop Linux, Java or Symbian?CIOHP is taking WebOS open source with the hope that it can attract developers by providing a write-once-run-everyplace platform. However, Rob Enderle writes, history hasn't been kind to operating systems as only few survive, but while WebOS has risks it HP Hopes to Lure Mobile App Developers to Open webOSPCWorld (blog)HP give Open source webOS September launch dateTech DigestNo, Really: This Tidbit Means HP's WebOS Could Rise From The DeadBusiness Insiderall 46 news articles »

  • Windows 8 Tablet Tech Specs Unveiled - Infopackets

    27 Jan 2012 | 11:37 am
    Game RantWindows 8 Tablet Tech Specs UnveiledInfopacketsOn the other hand, Microsoft is more restrictive than Google's open source system, which allows anyone to manufacture an Android handset however they want (which entails risks, such as letting Android become associated with poorly-made devices).WinInfo Short Takes: January 27, 2012Windows IT ProMicrosoft Might Introduce Xbox Live in Android and iOS DevicesGizmoCraveall 136 news articles »

  • Windows 8 Metro: Now with mouse support - InfoWorld

    27 Jan 2012 | 7:10 am
    Windows 8 Metro: Now with mouse supportInfoWorldWindows enthusiast site TechRadar posted details about Windows 8 mouse-and-pointer substitutes for tap-and-pinch gestures that the touch-enabled universe will take for granted. Although TechRadar doesn't credit a Microsoft source by name, and more »

  • Microsoft seeking open-source expert to help put Linux on Azure - ZDNet (blog)

    27 Jan 2012 | 6:41 am
    Microsoft seeking open-source expert to help put Linux on AzureZDNet (blog)This position requires a proven track record in the open source community. The Windows Interoperability Team at Microsoft has an immediate opening for a senior software development engineer. The purpose of this position is to become a key member of a HP-Microsoft Alliance Renewed In The CloudSeeking Alphaall 8 news articles »
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  • Android Does Not Need Antivirus; Google Official Lashes Out at Vendors - DeviceMAG

    28 Jan 2012 | 12:30 am
    DeviceMAGAndroid Does Not Need Antivirus; Google Official Lashes Out at VendorsDeviceMAGGoogle's open source software team has come out in the open, criticizing firms selling antivirus software for Android and other mobile devices. The company has claimed that Android, iOS, and RIM Blackberry operating systems do not need antivirus and more »

  • Apple Takes Heat & Goes Buy the Book - The Mac Observer

    27 Jan 2012 | 4:21 pm
    The Mac ObserverApple Takes Heat & Goes Buy the BookThe Mac ObserverI surmise that my incredible readers have seen all the major stuff from the Mac Web. But I found a couple articles that weren't written by the usual technical columnists that are interesting. The first was by Audrey Watters: “Apple and the Digital and more »

  • Expo Notes: The highlights of the Macworld iWorld Expo - Macworld UK

    27 Jan 2012 | 11:17 am
    Macworld UKExpo Notes: The highlights of the Macworld iWorld ExpoMacworld UKAir Dictate is Avatron's Vocal-esque iOS app that lets you use the transcription technology on your iPhone 4S in tandem with your Mac. You run a helper app on your Mac, launch the Air Dictate app, and start talking. Or rather, you did.and more »

  • Microsoft seeking open-source expert to help put Linux on Azure - ZDNet (blog)

    27 Jan 2012 | 6:41 am
    Microsoft seeking open-source expert to help put Linux on AzureZDNet (blog)The job posting states quite plainly that the person the Server and Tools team is seeking will be charged with “Defin(ing) and scop(ing) open source projects designed to enable Linux on Microsoft's virtualization and cloud platforms.” (Emphasis mine.) and more »

  • Linux Mint 13 gets back to desktop basics - InfoWorld

    26 Jan 2012 | 5:27 pm
    Linux Mint 13 gets back to desktop basicsInfoWorldBy Joab Jackson | IDG News Service Bucking the trend of increasingly experimental desktop interfaces, the developers behind the Linux Mint are adopting a simpler desktop for the next version of the open-source Linux distribution.and more »
 
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  • Is WebOS the Next Desktop Linux, Java or Symbian? - CIO

    27 Jan 2012 | 7:10 pm
    X-bit LabsIs WebOS the Next Desktop Linux, Java or Symbian?CIOHP is taking WebOS open source with the hope that it can attract developers by providing a write-once-run-everyplace platform. However, Rob Enderle writes, history hasn't been kind to operating systems as only few survive, but while WebOS has risks it HP: webOS to be fully open-sourced by September, Enyo 2.0 framework available EngadgetFour Signs That WebOS Is on the Right TrackPCWorldHewlett-Packard to Make WebOS Open Source by September.X-bit LabsInformationWeek -ITProPortal -Mobile Burnall 46 news…

  • Ubuntu moves beyond the desktop with new TV interface, menu-killing navigation ... - Digitaltrends.com

    27 Jan 2012 | 6:25 pm
    Digitaltrends.comUbuntu moves beyond the desktop with new TV interface, menu-killing navigation Digitaltrends.comStill, doubt over how well it would compete against that other open source, Linux-based option (a little something called Android) remains. Since the announcement, Ubuntu has been relatively quiet about its mobile and smart device progress, Linux users cautiously optimistic about Ubuntu's Head-Up Display desktopZDNet (blog)Canonical previews voice driven Heads-Up Display for UbuntuComputerWeekly.com (blog)Canonical Brings Apps to Life on Ubuntu Linux DesktopEnterprise Apps…

  • Red Hat's New Board Wants to Boost Open Storage Ecosystem - DABCC.com

    27 Jan 2012 | 1:01 pm
    Red Hat's New Board Wants to Boost Open Storage EcosystemDABCC.comOpen-source software maker and Linux distributor Red Hat announced the GlusterFS Advisory Board, an independent panel of several industry insiders whose job will be to boost the ecosystem around the open storage platform.and more »

  • PHYTEC Announces Linux Support for the phyCORE-OMAP4430 System on Module - San Francisco Chronicle (press release)

    27 Jan 2012 | 10:32 am
    PHYTEC Announces Linux Support for the phyCORE-OMAP4430 System on ModuleSan Francisco Chronicle (press release)The Board Support Package - PHYTEC's rich set of integrated open source software components are packaged in an easy-to-use development environment for Linux application development. The BSP supports the peripherals of the OMAP4430 with source for and more »

  • Microsoft seeking open-source expert to help put Linux on Azure - ZDNet (blog)

    27 Jan 2012 | 6:41 am
    Microsoft seeking open-source expert to help put Linux on AzureZDNet (blog)The job posting states quite plainly that the person the Server and Tools team is seeking will be charged with “Defin(ing) and scop(ing) open source projects designed to enable Linux on Microsoft's virtualization and cloud platforms.” (Emphasis mine.) Linux on the Microsoft Azure CloudWindows 7 NewsHP-Microsoft Alliance Renewed In The CloudSeeking Alphaall 8 news articles »
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    By BRAD STENGER
    26 Jan 2012 | 10:46 am
    Cameron Brown, Carnegie-Mellon '95, and e-commerce director at The New York Times, shares insights into news and technology with his alma mater.

  • Introducing ICE: Writing for the Web First

    By MATTHEW DELAMBO
    23 Jan 2012 | 2:26 pm
    ICE is a customizable JavaScript library that will allow you to track changes in any element that is contenteditable, or in a TinyMCE or Wordpress text editor. At this early stage, ICE has some limitations, but we think it is a very useful tool and hope that others will help us expand the project. Patches and forks are welcome at our repository, https://github.com/NYTimes/ice/. An ICE demo is at http://nytimes.github.com/ice/demo/.

  • NYT Districts API helps Fractured Atlas help artists

    By BRAD STENGER
    9 Jan 2012 | 2:10 pm
    The arts, and the benefits to the public they provide, sometimes gets lost, barely noticed by government. Fractured Atlas, a New York City-based multi-disciplinary arts service organization, is finding that by creating information and data services for its members and for city arts communities, it can also provide more effective advocacy for the arts to government. Fractured Atlas uses the New York Times' District API to create and run these services and to link them to its arts advocacy mission.

  • Two New Client Libraries: Times Wire and Campaign Cash

    By DEREK WILLIS
    22 Dec 2011 | 11:08 am
    Announcing two new Ruby clients for New York Times APIs: Times Wire and Campaign Cash.

  • New in the Campaign Finance API: Independent Expenditures

    By DEREK WILLIS
    21 Dec 2011 | 10:05 am
    The Campaign Finance API now supports independent expenditure data.
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  • Linux users cautiously optimistic about Ubuntu's Head-Up Display desktop

    Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
    26 Jan 2012 | 10:55 am
    Users are willing to give Ubuntu's new Head-Up Display desktop a chance.When Ubuntu announced that it was going to switch to Unity for its primary Linux desktop, some users were outraged by Ubuntu’s shift to a new interface. Many turned to Linux Mint in place of Ubuntu. So, when Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth announced that Ubuntu would be moving from Unity to Head-Up Display (HUD), I expected Linux users to be even more annoyed. I was wrong. Instead, they are taking a wait-and-see attitude to HUD.Welcome to Ubuntu 11.10’s Unity (Photo Gallery)HUD, in case you haven’t…

  • Linux Mint releases Cinnamon, GNOME 2.x style desktop

    Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
    25 Jan 2012 | 11:41 am
    Say hello to Cinnamon, Mint's new GNOME 2.x style Linux desktop.Clement Lefebvre, lead developer of Linux Mint, has announced the first “fully stable” version of its new GNOME 2.x-like “Cinnamon 1.2″ fork of the GNOME 3.x desktop environment is now available for not only Mint, but for Ubuntu 11.10, Fedora 16, OpenSUSE 12.1, Arch Linux, and Gentoo.The Cinnamon interface looks and works a lot like the popular GNOME 2.x interface, but it’s built on top of the GNOME 3.x infrastructure. It was created because many people, including Linux’s creator, Linus…

  • Beyond the desktop: Ubuntu Linux's new Head-Up Display

    Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
    24 Jan 2012 | 10:13 am
    A first look at Ubuntu's new Head-Up Display desktop.Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical Ubuntu Linux’s parent company, has announced that Ubuntu will be adopting a radical new change to the interface that will do away with the “menu” in the Windows, Icons, Menus, Pointer (WIMP) interface, which has defined the desktop for the last thirty years.Shuttleworth states, “The menu has been a central part of the GUI since Xerox PARC invented ‘em in the 70?s. It’s the M in WIMP and has been there, essentially unchanged, for 30 years. We can do much…

  • Joomla 2.5 courts corporate, enterprise users

    Paula Rooney
    24 Jan 2012 | 6:53 am
    Joomla is extending support beyond MySQL to increase its penetration in businesses and enterprises.The upgraded 2.5 version of the content management system (CMS), which becomes available on Jan. 24,  offers multi-database support, notably Microsoft SQL Server out of the gate, and Oracle support in the near future, as well as an enhanced natural language search engine and automatic notification and delivery of updates and extensions.The addition of a database extraction layer to the PHP framework is aimed to improve its scalability, noted Andrea Tarr of Joomla’s Production…

  • The poor get poorer and the rich get richer with Apple's iPad-based textbooks

    Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
    22 Jan 2012 | 2:02 pm
    Apple’s iBooks2’s reinvented textbooks really are something. They’re gorgeous, they’re fast, they’re real-time interactive with up to date information and they’ll only cost $14.99 or less. But, to use them, you’ll need an iPad–minimum list price: $499.Can you afford that for your kids? Can your school board? I could, but I’ve been lucky enough to do well in my career and I only have the one daughter. There’s certainly no way that any county I’ve ever lived in during my life in West Virginia, Maryland, or North Carolina could…
 
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  • Geolocation and Accelerometer APIs

    24 Jan 2012 | 10:49 pm
    Devices such as the iPhone are also location-aware; its GPS receiver is able to determine its position anywhere in the world. Movement can be tracked, the current speed can be obtained, and even the direction the device is facing can be determined. In addition to mapping, location services are finding their way into all kinds of areas ranging from photography to messaging clients. In this article written by Christopher Caleb, author of Flash iOS Apps Cookbook, we will cover the following recipes: Determining your current location Determining your speed and heading Checking for geolocation…

  • .NET Generics 4.0: Container Patterns and Best Practices

    24 Jan 2012 | 4:59 am
    There are several generic containers and generic algorithms available in the .NET Framework and a couple of other majorly accepted APIs such as Power Collections and C5. In this article by Sudipta Mukherjee, author of .NET Generics 4.0 Beginner’s Guide, we will take a look at: Generic container patterns: There are several patterns that are used more than the others in code bases that use Generics. Here, we shall walk through some of these very popular generic structures. Best practices: Here we shall walk through a list of best practices with succinct causes to back them.

  • Axure RP 6 Prototyping Essentials: Advanced Interactions

    23 Jan 2012 | 5:19 am
    This article covers some advanced topics such as conditions, raised events, and so on. In this article by Ezra Schwartz, author of Axure RP 6 Prototyping Essentials, we will cover a set of features such as raised events, conditional logic and variables, introduction to a terminology which is usually associated with programming and suggests complexity. It is understandable if you are not interested in, or are intimidated by, the prospect of coding, and wish to avoid using this set of Axure features as long as possible. You should not. First, rest assured that no coding is involved. By now, you…

  • Oracle JDeveloper 11gR2: Application Modules

    20 Jan 2012 | 5:50 am

  • Working with Dashboards in Dynamics CRM

    19 Jan 2012 | 4:09 am
    One of the best user features found in Dynamics CRM 2011 is the addition of standard dashboards. Dashboards can contain any combination of charts, lists, and other components to help give users a visual and interactive view of their CRM data. This article will explain how to edit user and system dashboards along with detailed information about the different properties that you can change on chart and list components. In this article by Mark AuCoin, author of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011: Dashboards Cookbook, we will cover the following topics: Editing a user dashboard Editing a system…
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  • Linux / Open Source For Kids: A Feast of Riches

    wlmanager
    24 Jan 2012 | 9:34 am
    Linux and free/open source software are the best computing environments for children because they can get under the hood and learn to control and shape the technology, rather than be trained like lab rats to click buttons and be good little unquestioning consumers. Here is a batch of excellent educational and creative software for children, and for beginners of any age. Tux Paint Here at Worldlabel we have a special fondness for Tux Paint, the cross-platform drawing and painting program. (We even hosted a Tux Paint drawing contest with awesome prizes last summer!) Tux Paint teaches the…

  • Blending Multiple Images and Creating Captions in Gimp

    wlmanager
    5 Jan 2012 | 1:22 pm
    One of the funnest features of digital image editing is taking pieces of different images and blending them together in a single image, like putting a funny hat on your mom or putting your dog on a jet ski. Or even something serious, like improving a photo of a landscape by adding an element from a different photo. Today we are going to learn how to do this in GIMP, the excellent open source image editing program. GIMP is not LAME Computer geeks think they are funny, and that how we end up with names like GIMP and LAME. GIMP is short for GNU Image Manipulation Program. LAME is a recursive…

  • Open Source Desktop Publishing 2011

    wlmanager
    29 Sep 2011 | 8:40 am
    The free software world moves rapidly, but every individual project also moves at its own pace and rhythm. Consequently, it is easy to get behind on the news. Here is a look at the state of the art in the open source desktop publishing (DTP) arena for fall 2011. What’s new in Scribus Scribus remains the solid leader among free DTP applications. The big news at the moment is that the next major revision of Scribus, 1.4.0, is in release candidate status. That makes it short of a recommendation for stable usage, but worth testing, and a possible option if you find yourself in need of one…

  • Winners of the 2011 Summer Tux Paint Contest

    wlmanager
    22 Sep 2011 | 1:04 pm
    We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2011 Tux Paint Summer Contest. We thank all the participants for thier entries. We must admit, judging was extremely difficult so we decided to add an additional 10 winners who will each get a Tux Paint t-shirt. FIRST PLACE Artist’s name: Tzujo Laurel Chang Artist’s age: 8 years Title: The blue bird in our back yard Country: USA SECOND PLACE Name of Artist: Nadia Nuril Kariem Age of Artist:  10 (08-April-2001) Title of Drawing: Holiday In Jungle Country: Indonesia THIRD PLACE   Artist’s’ name: Annabel Mair Artist’s age: 10 years old…

  • Tux Paint Kids Summer Drawing Contest

    wlmanager
    29 Jun 2011 | 9:30 am
    Grab Tux Paint, make a cool drawing, win one of 3 OLPC laptops, one of 10 Sugar-on-a-stick and other awesome prizes! The 2011 Tux Paint Summer Drawing Contest is sponsored by Worldlabel.com and is open to all children aged 3 to 12 who live anywhere in the World! Here’s a chance to show off your talent using a great drawing program made especially for kids. Tux Paint is an award-winning drawing program you can download to your computer. Tux Paint was recently awarded SourceForge.net Project of the Month. It will run on all versions of Windows (including Tablet PC), Mac OS X 10.4 and up,…
 
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  • At the Risk of Running off the Rails

    Gregory Miller
    7 Jan 2012 | 3:46 pm
    So, we have a phrase we like to use around here borrowed from the legal academic world.  Used to describe an action or conduct in analyzing a nuance in tort negligence, is the phrase “frolic and detour.”  I am taking a bit of detour and frolicking in an increasingly noisy element of explaining the complexity of our work here.  (The detour comes from the fact that as “Development Officer” my charge is ensuring the Foundation and projects are financed, backed, supported, and succeed in adoption.  The frolic is in the form of commentary below about software…

  • Temporarily Missing, But Still in Action

    Gregory Miller
    31 Dec 2011 | 8:56 pm
    Happy “Holidaze” On the eve of 2012 we so need to check in here and let you know we’re still fighting the good fight and have been totally distracted by a bunch of activities.  There is much to catch you up on and we’ll start doing that in the ensuing days,  but for now we simply wanted to check in and wish everyone a peaceful and prosperous new year.  And of course, we intend that to “prosper” is to enrich yourself in any number of ways, not simply financially, but intellectually, physically, and spiritually as well… how ever you chose to do so…

  • An Independence Holiday Reflection: IP Reform and Innovation in Elections Technology

    Gregory Miller
    5 Jul 2011 | 1:08 am
    On this Independence Day I gave some reflection to the intentions of our founding fathers, and how that relates to our processes of elections and the innovations we should strive for to ensure accuracy, transparency, verification, and security.  And as I thought about this more while gazing out at one of the world’s most precious natural resource treasures and typing this post, it occurred to me that innovation in elections systems is largely around the processes and methods more than any discrete apparatus. That’s when the old recovering IP lawyer in me had an “ah ha” moment.  …

  • Election Transparency Must be Apolitical

    Gregory Miller
    27 May 2011 | 9:15 pm
    For those of you who have been following the recount saga in Wisconsin, here is a bit of news, and a reflection on that. So, the news from a couple of days ago (I’m just catching up) is that the process of re-counting is complete, but the resolution of that close election may not be.  The re-counting did not change which candidate is leading, and apparently expanded the margin slightly. Trailing candidate Joanne Kloppenburg explains her motivation for the recount in a newspaper letter to the editor, building on the old but true assertion that, “One may be entitled to their own…

  • Detours in Election Technology: The “Open” Factor and Mobility

    E. John Sebes
    17 May 2011 | 11:14 pm
    In a recent posting, I recalled the old-fashioned traditional proprietary-IT-think of vendors leveraging their proprietary data for their customers, and contrasted that with election technology where the data is public. In the “open data” approach, you do not need to have integrated reporting features as part of a voting system or election management system. Instead, you can choose your own reporting system, hook it up to your open database of election data, and mine that data for whatever reports you want. And if you need help, only a few days of a reporting-systems consultant…
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  • Blood Mary Recipe

    Mark
    15 Jan 2012 | 4:16 pm
    One of the many ways I put myself through college was as a bartender. At the time I perfected my Bloody Mary recipe but as time has gone on I have forgotten the exact recipe so I have been trying to figure out the right proportions. This still isn’t quite right but it’s getting close. Spicy Bloody Mary Recipe I usually just buy a 64 ounce bottle of tomato juice and pour out the eight ounces so I can use the bottle for the mix. 56 ounces tomato juice (I go for the low sodium Campbell’s but use what you like) 2 TBSP Horseradish (if you grate your own that works, otherwise buy…

  • Learning Automatic Configuration Management with Puppet

    Mark
    9 Jan 2012 | 12:42 pm
    If you are going to operate a cloud at scale then you most certainly need to use some ways to automate the configuration and other tasks like provisioning when you spin up cloud infrastructure. One of my favorite open source projects for doing this is Puppet sponsored by Puppetlabs. Puppet is a client-server application that allows you define roles and configurations for infrastructure in puppet manifests then deploy those manifests across numerous servers simultaneously. In addition Puppet has another project, the Marionette Collective (MCollective), which allows you to automate common tasks…

  • Crash Course in Open Source Cloud Computing (v2)

    Mark
    26 Mar 2011 | 9:49 am
    Crash Course in Open Source Cloud Computing View more presentations from Mark Hinkle. This is a presentation originally given at SCALE 9x and revised for the  Indiana Linuxfest 3/26/2011.

  • Crash Course in Open Source Cloud Computing

    Mark
    5 Mar 2011 | 10:36 am
    My slides from my Crash Course in Cloud Computing talk from SCALE 9x, it was my first talk on the subject and based on some feedback I think I am going to add some additional information. On the open source tools I think I am going to add RunDeck and MCollective for orchestration. Crash Course in Open Source Cloud Computing View more presentations from Mark Hinkle

  • Open Source Cloud Computing Training at Scale 9x

    Mark
    22 Feb 2011 | 8:57 pm
    This Friday at SCaLE 9x in Los Angeles, CA there will be a special build an open source cloud day teaching users how to use technologies from Cloud.com, OpenStack, Opscode and Zenoss to deploy, configure, manage and monitor infrastructure-as-a-service using open source software. Here’s an overview of the program: “Build a Cloud Day” will be dedicated to teaching users how to build and manage a cloud computing environment using free and open source software. The program is designed to expose attendees to the concepts and best practices around deploying cloud computing…
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  • When metadata comes to Twitter

    pshapiro
    27 Jan 2012 | 4:00 am
    Chris Lehmann is the principal of the Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. I love reading his education-related tweets because of his many interesting ideas, insights and observations. There's another side to Chris, though. Chris is a rabid sports fan, and he'll unleash a torrent of tweets during certain sporting events. I can appreciate his sports fervor, but to me those sports tweets are more noise rather than signal. I'd love to be able to tell Twitter, “give me all of Chris Lehmann's education-related tweets and none of his sports tweets.” (I also want Chris to…

  • Lego could have encouraged STEM education for girls--but launched the Friends line instead

    suehle
    26 Jan 2012 | 5:15 pm
    There's been some outrage over the new Lego Friends line, intended to bring more girls into the addictive world of Lego building. Initially, I felt it was a fair extension of the Lego product family. Now I'm concerned about the messages Lego is sending to our future builders and innovators--both boys and girls. Read more... read more

  • Why SOPA and PIPA are bad for open source

    simonphipps
    26 Jan 2012 | 4:00 am
    The widespread internet blackout last week in protest at unbalanced legislation being rushed through the US Congress was dramatic and notable. I did have some questions though on why it was important to the open source community. The way the laws have been framed by their proponents makes them look as if they are all about file sharing and specifically music and video sharing. However, the problem with them is they create badly-bounded new powers that are likely to exploited in ways that fall outside the frame. Read more... read more

  • How far should openness extend?

    tcolindodd
    26 Jan 2012 | 3:00 am
    If you could open one of the following data sets tomorrow, which one would you open and why? All non-classified government data Census information Government statistics Geo data Weather data Public records Data from publicly-funded research projects Digitized books and media from public libraries Selling the idea of open data seems straightforward. If taxpayers paid for it, a government should share it. But there have to be exceptions for National Security and privacy. Read more... read more

  • Crushed innovation: When patent lawyers switch to NPEs

    suehle
    25 Jan 2012 | 6:00 am
    When well-known, richly compensated patent lawyers switch from representing world-class tech companies to servicing "non-practicing entities," something's up. Could the sordidness of a business based on bringing patent lawsuits be outweighed by large amounts of cash? At least for some, apparently yes. Read more... read more
 
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