"Swiss Army knife for QuickTime" Perian turning off the lights
Tue, 15 May 2012 15:53:57 +0000

The source code will be made available on Github or Google Code.

Red Hat hires lead JRuby developers alongside Engine Yard partnership
Tue, 22 May 2012 22:55:55 +0000

Charles Nutter and Tom Enebo will continue their work on JRuby at Red Hat

Raspberry Pi foundation demos 14MP camera module for $35 computer
Tue, 22 May 2012 21:34:34 +0000

The module will likely be available for purchase later this year.

Another tiny computer: VIA's $49 APC offers Android, HDMI video out
Tue, 22 May 2012 19:25:34 +0000

Has twice the RAM of the $35 Raspberry Pi.

Hands-on: GitHub for Windows takes the pain out of using git
Tue, 22 May 2012 12:05:22 +0000

Get up and running with git without once having to use the command line.

DRM-free physical media: dead in the water or the answer to art’s prayers?
Sun, 13 May 2012 22:00:23 +0000

A Kickstarter to create a DRM-free HD video format caters to small-time artists.

Week in IT: The GIMP reviewed, DDR4 coming, and the cloud office shootout
Sat, 12 May 2012 14:30:27 +0000

It's all the IT news that was fit to print last week.

Mozilla says Microsoft won't allow rival browsers on ARM Windows desktop
Thu, 10 May 2012 13:50:05 +0000

General counsel warns of possible antitrust implications.

New Dell Ubuntu ultrabooks a step in the right direction for Linux support
Tue, 08 May 2012 20:50:00 +0000

But upstream hardware support is more important than preinstallation.

Hands-on: testing the GIMP 2.8 and its new single-window interface
Sun, 06 May 2012 23:30:18 +0000

We go hands-on with the latest update of the venerable open source image editor.

Two months later, Apple acknowledges use of OpenStreetMap in iPhoto
Fri, 04 May 2012 15:29:00 +0000

The OpenStreetMap Foundation finally gets an acknowledgement from Cupertino.

HTML5-based MeeGo successor Tizen hits 1.0 milestone
Wed, 02 May 2012 20:15:34 +0000

Tizen, the successor of the ill-fated MeeGo project, has reached version 1.0

New Firefox design will offer uniform look across desktop and mobile
Tue, 01 May 2012 23:13:37 +0000

Firefox is getting a fresh new unified look and feel across form factors.

Free as in awesome: our favorite open source apps for Ubuntu 12.04
Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:00:33 +0000

A roundup of great apps you can install on Ubuntu 12.04

Firefox 13 beta turns on the SPDY, tabs on demand
Sat, 28 Apr 2012 17:01:00 +0000

Mozilla applies some spit-and-polish to Firefox with new features for v13.

Forget Apple: Oracle to bring Java security fixes directly to Mac users
Fri, 27 Apr 2012 20:20:00 +0000

Macs are finally welcome to the regular Java update train.

Precise Pangolin rolls out: Ubuntu 12.04 released, introduces Unity HUD
Thu, 26 Apr 2012 17:48:08 +0000

Canonical released Ubuntu 12.04, a new version of the popular Linux distribution.

Twitter signs up to sponsor open source Apache Software Foundation
Thu, 19 Apr 2012 21:41:02 +0000

Twitter has announced that it will sponsor the Apache Software Foundation, a …

Berners-Lee: Don't let record labels upset Web openness
Wed, 18 Apr 2012 23:21:00 +0000

The inventor of the World wide Web had some choice things to say about …

Delivery begins for first units of Raspberry Pi’s $35 Linux computer
Mon, 16 Apr 2012 20:19:02 +0000

The Raspberry Pi foundation has started to deliver the first units of its $35 …

Bitten by the maker bug: one man's first steps with Arduino
Sat, 14 Apr 2012 19:25:00 +0000

Jumping into the world of open source Arduino hardware can be intimidating. …

MySQL founder's latest MariaDB release takes "enterprise" features open-source
Fri, 13 Apr 2012 20:56:00 +0000

MariaDB 5.5.23 is the latest version of MySQL founder "Monty" Widenius' fork …

HTML5 roundup: Mozilla demos standards-based video chat in Firefox
Sun, 08 Apr 2012 22:15:39 +0000

Mozilla is adding WebRTC support to Firefox in an experimental branch. The …

Linux kernel in 2011: 15 million total lines of code and Microsoft is a top contributor
Wed, 04 Apr 2012 18:15:46 +0000

A study published by the Linux Foundation shows that the Linux kernel and its …

Oracle v. Google settlement talks fail, Java patent trial to start April 16
Mon, 02 Apr 2012 21:03:00 +0000

Oracle claims that Google violated Java patents and copyrights in developing Android.