Ubuntu TV ‘for human beings’ unveiled at CES
Joining the ranks of Apple and Google, Linux is entering the TV market with an Ubuntu TV. Canonical, the team behind the Linux based Ubuntu operating system, debuted the Ubuntu TV at CES on Monday.
No wires, no boxes, no remote is the mantra of the Ubuntu TV. Controls will be touch and gesture based, with the ability to use a smartphone as a remote as well. Of course, the TV will connect to cable … Continue Reading
Bare bones $25 ‘Raspberry’ computer available in January
You might want to hold back on that $600 Mac Mini purchase for just a little bit longer. The Raspberry Pi, the little $25 computer that can run Quake 3 Arena and play HD videos, is scheduled to go into volume production in January. If you want to splurge, you can also pay a $10 premium for the fancy Model B that comes with an ethernet port and 256 – instead of 128 – MByte … Continue Reading
Ubuntu Linux looks beyond the desktop to phones, tablets, TVs
Soon Ubuntu Linux won’t just be a desktop OS for Linux nerds.
Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, is now aiming to mimic iOS and Android by bringing the OS to smartphones, tablets, and smart TVs, reports ZDNet. Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth will be announcing the news today at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Orlando, Florida.
“This is a natural expansion of our idea [of] Ubuntu as Linux for human beings,” Shuttleworth said in an interview … Continue Reading
This $25 computer (yes, computer!) also runs Quake 3
Remember that $25 computer about the size of a flash drive game developer David Braben unveiled in May? According to a video posted on Saturday, it can run games in high-definition, too.
The Raspberry Pi computer is a single-board computer that’s capable of rendering video games like Quake 3 at a 1920-by-1080 pixel monitor resolution. The game cruises along at around 20 frames per second with the lighting and geometrical details cranked up to maximum … Continue Reading
This computer (yes, computer!) costs $25
Game developer David Braben has created a computer that’s about the size of a flash drive — and it’ll most likely cost less than your last date.
Braben designed the device with the goal of having an extremely affordable computer that children across the world can access. It’s a similar goal the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) project had — create an extremely affordable computer that children in both developing countries and first-world countries can … Continue Reading
Critical vulnerability in Flash and Acrobat
Adobe warned yesterday that its Flash, Acrobat and Acrobat Reader products all have a critical vulnerability that will allow an attacker to take control of the affected system.
The vulnerability is currently being exploited via a Flash file embedded in Microsoft Excel (.xls) file. The file has been distributed as an e-mail attachment. There are no reports yet on attacks targeting Acrobat software.
Users should be very careful with e-mail attachments until a fix has … Continue Reading
CloudBees' Java dream team lands $4M from Matrix Partners
CloudBees, which offers cloud services for Java developers, just announced $4 million in Series A financing led by Matrix Partners with participation from individual investors, including JBoss founder Marc Fleury and JBoss/HP/Bluestone veteran Bob Bickel. CloudBees was founded by former JBoss CTO Sacha Labourey in August this year.
A typical Java development team uses a range of software life-cycle tools for source control (stores the latest version of the code and manages changes), builds (compiles … Continue Reading
Enterprise software provider Novell bought by Attachmate for $2.2B
Enterprise software infrastructure provider Novell agreed to be bought out by Attachmate, another enterprise software provider, for $2.2 billion — or $6.10 per share — today.
Infrastructure seems to be the sexy acquisition target in 2010. This is the second major purchase of an infrastructure provider in just a few months. Hewlett-Packard announced it would pick up 3Par, a cloud storage provider, for a cool $2.4 billion back in September.
Novell has two significant business … Continue Reading
Google's answer to internal security: Drop Windows, use Mac or Linux instead
Enterprise software infrastructure provider Novell agreed to be bought out by Attachmate, another enterprise software provider, for $2.2 billion — or $6.10 per share — today.
Infrastructure seems to be the sexy acquisition target in 2010. This is the second major purchase of an infrastructure provider in just a few months. Hewlett-Packard announced it would pick up 3Par, a cloud storage provider, for a cool $2.4 billion back in September.
Novell has two significant business … Continue Reading
Microsoft forms patent agreement with HTC, will receive royalties for all HTC Android phones
Enterprise software infrastructure provider Novell agreed to be bought out by Attachmate, another enterprise software provider, for $2.2 billion — or $6.10 per share — today.
Infrastructure seems to be the sexy acquisition target in 2010. This is the second major purchase of an infrastructure provider in just a few months. Hewlett-Packard announced it would pick up 3Par, a cloud storage provider, for a cool $2.4 billion back in September.
Novell has two significant business … Continue Reading
Synaptics lets Linux gadgets give the iPad 10 fingers
Enterprise software infrastructure provider Novell agreed to be bought out by Attachmate, another enterprise software provider, for $2.2 billion — or $6.10 per share — today.
Infrastructure seems to be the sexy acquisition target in 2010. This is the second major purchase of an infrastructure provider in just a few months. Hewlett-Packard announced it would pick up 3Par, a cloud storage provider, for a cool $2.4 billion back in September.
Novell has two significant business … Continue Reading
An FAQ about those Android netbooks
Enterprise software infrastructure provider Novell agreed to be bought out by Attachmate, another enterprise software provider, for $2.2 billion — or $6.10 per share — today.
Infrastructure seems to be the sexy acquisition target in 2010. This is the second major purchase of an infrastructure provider in just a few months. Hewlett-Packard announced it would pick up 3Par, a cloud storage provider, for a cool $2.4 billion back in September.
Novell has two significant business … Continue Reading
