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ZTE Android tablets popping up everywhere

Friday, 27 January 2012 - 22:06 PM - (Hardware)

ZTE is readying a number of seven-inch Android tablets, starting with a dual-core, Android 3.2-based ZTE Optik tablet heading for Sprint Feb. 5 and a similar, but 4G LTE-equipped V66 tablet headed for Verizon, reports say. Meanwhile, a seven-inch ZTE V9A Light Tab 2 just went on pre-order in the U.K, and we're still waiting for two tablets ZTE showed at the Consumer Electronics Show: a seven-inch T72 tablet and quad-core T98....

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America's first 'WhiteFi' network goes live

Friday, 27 January 2012 - 22:03 PM - (Hardware)

America's first public & WhiteFi& network, leveraging spectrum previously occupied by analog TV channels, has been launched in North Carolina. Running at 1.5 to 3.1 MB/sec., the service will initially be used mostly for municipal functions such as surveillance cameras and transmitting water quality data, according to reports....

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Android smartphones down, tablets up, say reports

Friday, 27 January 2012 - 18:01 PM - (Hardware)

Some 37 million Apple iPhones shipped worldwide in the fourth quarter, besting Samsung's 33 million shipments and reducing Android's share to 47 percent, says ABI Research, echoed by Kantar Worldpanel ComTech and Good Technology. Meanwhile, Android tablets surged to 39 percent share worldwide in Q4 2011, but still trail Apple's 58 percent iPad share, says Strategy Analytics....

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Fedora Relocates Operating System Under /usr/

Friday, 27 January 2012 - 16:10 PM - (Enterprise)

All files previously stored in the Linux distribution's /bin/, /sbin/, /lib/ and /lib64/ directories will shortly be moved to equivalent sub-directories in /usr/...

 

All files previously stored in the Linux distribution's /bin/, /sbin/, /lib/ and /lib64/ directories will shortly be moved to equivalent sub-directories in /usr/

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GlusterFS Advisory Board Established

Friday, 27 January 2012 - 15:36 PM - (Enterprise)

Red Hat has established a GlusterFS Advisory Board to promote the technical development of the distributed file system.

Red Hat has established a GlusterFS Advisory Board to promote the technical development of the distributed file system.

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Announcing The Lima Open-Source GPU Driver

Friday, 27 January 2012 - 15:26 PM - (Hardware)

There's still one week until the work will be officially announced, but the open-source "Lima" open-source graphics driver project has surfaced...

There's still one week until the work will be officially announced, but the open-source "Lima" open-source graphics driver project has surfaced...

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FFmpeg 0.10 "Freedom" Released

Friday, 27 January 2012 - 15:10 PM - (Enterprise)

Version 0.10 of FFmpeg adds several new encoders and decoders, as well as new filters and tools. The latest stable release also closes 15 security holes...

Version 0.10 of FFmpeg adds several new encoders and decoders, as well as new filters and tools. The latest stable release also closes 15 security holes

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More Automation With AutoKey

Friday, 27 January 2012 - 15:03 PM - (Software)

The more I use AutoKey, the more I believe it to be an essential piece of software for the Linux desktop. If you happened to miss my last article about it, AutoKey is a system-wide service that allows you to easily set scripts to run when certain key combinations are pressed. AutoKey also lets you set text shortcuts for longer words or phrases.

The more I use AutoKey, the more I believe it to be an essential piece of software for the Linux desktop. If you happened to miss my last article about it, AutoKey is a system-wide service that allows you to easily set scripts to run when certain key combinations are pressed. AutoKey also lets you set text shortcuts for longer words or phrases.

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Merged Executive Committee Proposed for the JCP

Friday, 27 January 2012 - 14:29 PM - (Enterprise)

With JSR 355, Oracle and the Java Community Process plan to create a central executive committee that will combine the current committees for Java SE/Java EE and Java ME development...

With JSR 355, Oracle and the Java Community Process plan to create a central executive committee that will combine the current committees for Java SE/Java EE and Java ME development

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Unity Desktop, Nux Get Upstream OpenGL ES 2.0

Friday, 27 January 2012 - 14:27 PM - (Hardware)

Linaro developers are nearly done with their milestone of upstream support for OpenGL ES 2.0 with Compiz, Nux, and Unity. This will allow for the Unity 3D desktop to work on more mobile devices and other cases where only GLES support is available...

Linaro developers are nearly done with their milestone of upstream support for OpenGL ES 2.0 with Compiz, Nux, and Unity. This will allow for the Unity 3D desktop to work on more mobile devices and other cases where only GLES support is available...

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id Software's Main Linux Game Developer Resigns

Friday, 27 January 2012 - 13:24 PM - (Hardware)

Timothee Bessett, the id Software developer that was responsible for porting many of id Software's popular games like Doom 3 and Quake 4 to Linux, has resigned from the popular game company...

Timothee Bessett, the id Software developer that was responsible for porting many of id Software's popular games like Doom 3 and Quake 4 to Linux, has resigned from the popular game company...

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KDE 4.8 adds adaptive power management, new windowing tricks

Thursday, 26 January 2012 - 22:58 PM - (Hardware)

The KDE community announced version 4.8 of its desktop environment and software bundle for Linux, featuring improved, adaptive power management and new windowing functions. KDE 4.8 is faster and more stable, and offers new features like Qt Quick-based Plasma widgets and the KDE Telepathy real-time communication and collaboration framework, says the community....

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Cortex-A8 evaluation module gets higher-quality camera

Thursday, 26 January 2012 - 22:57 PM - (Hardware)

E-con Systems has announced a five megapixel camera add-on designed to work with the Texas Instruments (TI) OMAP3530 or DM3730 evaluation modules (EVMs). The e-CAM52_35x snaps onto the EVM boards and connects to the high-speed CMOS sensor interface on TI's DM37xx or Sitara AM37xx processors, providing five megapixel video capture as well as stills, the company says....

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Ubuntu 12.10 to debut menu-free search interface

Thursday, 26 January 2012 - 22:52 PM - (Hardware)

Canonical unveiled an search-oriented Head-Up Display (HUD) interface that will debut in April's Ubuntu 12.04 (& Precise Pangolin& ). Aiming to reduce dependence on menus and eventually replace them with the help of gesture and voice interactions, HUD could find its way into future versions of Ubuntu designed for smartphones and tablets, as well as the recently announced Ubuntu TV platform....

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PocketBook unveils seven-inch Gingerbread tablet

Thursday, 26 January 2012 - 18:17 PM - (Hardware)

PocketBook International announced a seven-inch tablet that runs Android 2.3.7 on a 1GHz TI OMAP3621 processor. The PocketBook A 7& is equipped with 512MB of RAM, 2GB of accessible onboard storage, a seven-inch, 1024 x 600 touchscreen, a two-megapixel camera, and Android Market access, according to the company....

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