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Submission + - Mozilla and Google Sign New Agreement for Default (mozilla.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 20, 2011 @03:29PM

An anonymous reader writes: It appears that Google is not going to cut relationship with Mozilla. From the official blog post — We’re pleased to announce that we have negotiated a significant and mutually beneficial revenue agreement with Google. This new agreement extends our long term search relationship with Google for at least three additional years.

Submission + - Good Useful Free Software 3

Submitted by Jeng on Friday November 18, 2011 @04:49PM

Jeng writes: I'm planning on sending flash drives to friends and family as stocking stuffers. Rather than just send a blank drive I'm looking for what good useful free software that I can load on it. From system utilities and encryption software to fun little games.

Submission + - Microsoft alleged anticompetitive practices agains (groklaw.net)

Submitted by andydread on Monday November 14, 2011 @05:54PM

andydread writes: We discussed the accusation against Microsoft by Barnes and Noble about their patent attacks on Android. The details are out on the extent that Microsoft has gone to make open source undesirable in the marketplace. Barnes and Noble says that this is not just about Android. According to B&N Its about all open source in general and they have filed a detailed complaint (PDF) with the ITC spelling out what they call "extortive practices" on the part of Microsoft against open source. Now we have a list of the actual patents in question and B&N explaining how each one of these patents are invalid.

Comment At least change the joke version number (Score 1) 383

by JustTech on Tuesday November 08, 2011 @05:33PM (#37990970) Attached to: Firefox 8.0 Released

It's kinda upsetting that the jokes on slashdot are the same at every Firefox release... shape up, think outside the box =)

Submission + - Web Browser Grand Prix 7: Firefox 7, Chrome 14, Op (tomshardware.com) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 01, 2011 @04:15PM

An anonymous reader writes: Firefox 7 was released a couple days ago, and now the latest Web browser perfromance numbers are in. This article is the same series that ran benchmarks on Mac OS X Lion last month. This time around the new Mozilla release is going against Chrome 14 and Opera 11.51 in 40+ different tests on Windows 7. Testing comes from every category of Web browsing perfromance I can think of: startup time, page load time, JS, CSS, DOM, HTML5, Flash, hardware acceleration, WebGL, Java, Silverlight, reliable page loads, memory usage/management, and standards confromance. The article also has a little feature on the Futuremark Peacekeeper browser benchmark. An open beta of the next revision has just been made public. This new version adds HTML5, video codecs, and WebGL tests to the benchmark. It's also designed to run on any browser/OS/device combination — e.g. Windows desktop, iPad, Droid 2, MacBook, Linux flavors, etc. Another great read, a must for Web browser fanatics!

Submission + - Google+ Approaching 50 Million Users (thecompiler.org)

Submitted by gzomartin on Sunday September 25, 2011 @02:13AM

gzomartin writes: Only days after Google+ went into open beta it has risen to 50 Million users even though many have stated that it is a ghost town, and that its dying. These stats completely disprove that, and show that it is going to start being a real threat to Facebook.

Submission + - It's Official: Silverlight is Dead (zdnet.com)

Submitted by

curmudgeon99

on Wednesday September 14, 2011 @09:36PM

curmudgeon99 writes: "Windows 8 makes Silverlight Microsoft's uneaten dog food: moldy crap that will be kept around only until somebody in Redmond gets around to throwing it out. Silverlight is dead and gone. Microsoft won't support it anymore"

Submission + - BlackBerry to See Android Apps in 2012 (tekgoblin.com)

Submitted by

tekgoblin

on Thursday August 25, 2011 @09:44PM

tekgoblin writes: "According to three sources who are “familiar with the plan”, claims that RIM plans on releasing BlackBerry powered smart-phones that are capable of running Android apps as soon as 2012. This comes as a result of RIM’s latest struggle to keep pace with Android and iOS powered smart-phones in the OS market share race. I guess if you can’t beat them, join them!"

Submission + - Alexandrescu, Meyers and Sutter: C++ versus D (msdn.com)

Submitted by LifeForm42 on Thursday August 25, 2011 @07:41PM

LifeForm42 writes: Fascinating discussion among C++ titans Herb Sutter, Scott Meyers and Andrei Alexandrescu (D co-designer). Great conversations about modern C++ versus D and fresh perspectives on native devlelopers and the imperfect (well, human) language design process.

What do Herb and Scott think of D? How is D better than C++? Is it? These aren't really the interesting questions, as you'll see...

Three titans. One place. Watch this.

Comment Damn, this feels like Slashdot (Score 5, Insightful) 209

by JustTech on Sunday August 14, 2011 @08:29PM (#37090058) Attached to: Linux Kernel 3.1 RC 2 Released

What's with all the slashdot users recently, going fucking stupid about version numbering? Who cares what the versions are called: 3.10, 3.11.30 3.A03930. As long as the software works and the users (developers and end users alike) are able to interact with the software, what's the big issue?

Comment Visual Basic (Score 1) 466

by JustTech on Tuesday March 29, 2011 @07:46PM (#35660614) Attached to: FBI Wants You To Solve Encrypted Notes From Murder

I'll create a GUI interface in Visual Basic, see if I can decrypt this

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