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Survey results on Thunderbird ideas-> 0

Submitted by normafella on Wednesday November 21 2007, @02:52PM

normafella writes "At The Rumbling Edge, there is some interesting stuff on a sample of ~700 Thunderbird users regarding the current status of Thunderbird as perceived by the (arguably more power users) community. The summary there states that 'Thunderbird 2 is already a great product lauded for its stability and adherence to open standards, but with lots of room for improvement and / or innovation. It could do with more features and functionality, especially improved global search across all accounts and default calendaring support.'

Seems like many ideas forthcoming for the recently set-up MailCo by Mozilla."
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KDE 4.0 RC 1 released-> 0

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angryfirelord

on Wednesday November 21 2007, @12:23PM

angryfirelord writes "The KDE Community is happy to announce the immediate availability of the first release candidate for KDE 4.0. This release candidate marks that the majority of the components of KDE 4.0 are now approaching release quality. While the final bits of Plasma, the brand new desktop shell and panel in KDE 4, are falling into place, the KDE community decided to publish a first release candidate for the KDE 4.0 Desktop. Release Candidate 1 is the first preview of KDE 4.0 which is suitable for general use and discovering the improvements that have taken place all over the KDE codebase."
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Groklaw interviews BBC Technology Director re play-> 0

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Chris_Keene

on Wednesday November 21 2007, @10:20AM

Chris_Keene writes "Groklaw have an interview with Ashley Highfield, BBC Future Media and Technology Director. They cover the iplayer, DRM, the Microsoft deal and mention Dirac (The BBC's free codec) and open DRM. A good interview, and it also gets a mention on the BBC internet blog."
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Intel Core 2 "Penryn" and Linux-> 0

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LHoAugustus

on Thursday November 15 2007, @04:40PM

LHoAugustus writes "Linux Hardware has posted a look at the new Intel "Penryn" processor and how the new processor will work with Linux. "Intel recently released the new "Penryn" Core 2 processor with many new features. So what are these features and how will they equate into benefits to Linux users? That's what Linux Hardware is here to unravel. In this review I'll cover all the high points of the new "Penryn" core and talk to a couple Linux projects about the impact on end-user performance.""
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First look: Firefox 3 visual refresh for Linux-> 0

Submitted by ohrmazd on Thursday November 15 2007, @04:31PM

ohrmazd writes "Firefox 3 is getting a visual refresh for better integration with Mac OS X and Windows, but original plans called for Linux to be left out of the fun. That decision was reversed and Ars has a look at some of the new themes. 'A patch submitted by Michael Ventnor makes the Firefox 3 toolbar use stock GTK icons from the user's GNOME icon theme. We tested this feature extensively and found that it worked very well with Tango, the default GNOME icon theme, Ubuntu's Human icon theme, and a variety of other popular third-party icon themes downloaded from gnome-look.org.' So far, it looks very promising."
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Gore joining venture firm Kleiner Perkins 0

Submitted by

netbuzz

on Monday November 12 2007, @02:43PM

netbuzz writes "In a move that may finally silence those who want him to run for president, Al Gore has decided to take his Nobel and Oscar awards on over to venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins, where he will concentrate on — guess what? — green technologies. What's even more interesting is that Gore apparently intends to be an active member of the Kleiner Perkins team, as opposed to a high-powered glad-hander.

http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/21812"

IBM to Buy Cognos 0

Submitted by CrkHead on Monday November 12 2007, @02:18PM

CrkHead writes "After some speculation there now is more consolidation in the market. The CBC is now reporting that IBM is to buy Cognos for $5 billion USD.

The U.S. computing giant will pay $58 US per share in cash for Cognos. The offer includes a premium of more than $5 US over the $52.98 US closing price of Cognos shares last week.

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SAE drops DRM for students and faculty 0

Submitted by NVH Engr on Monday November 12 2007, @01:55PM

NVH Engr writes "Remember when MIT dropped its subscriptions to the SAE journals? Apparently SAE had a change of heart and now agrees that students and faculty should be allowed more freedom with their publications. Way to go, MIT!"

Google releases Android SDK and $10mil. in prizes-> 0

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 12 2007, @01:31PM

An anonymous reader writes "Google has released the Android SDK, as well as a developer challenge with $10 million in prizes. There's a video of what the platform looks like on YouTube and telecoms.com has a writeup of the news."
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Open Handset Alliance releases Android SDK preview-> 0

Submitted by

radimvice

on Monday November 12 2007, @01:21PM

radimvice writes "As anticipated, the Open Handset Alliance led by Google has released an early look at the Android open-source wireless platform SDK. Google has put up an official Android developer blog and a developer discussion group, and there are also plenty of unofficial forums set up to discuss the release. Source code download, documentation, sample code and more is up at Google Code. Google has also announced the Android Developer Challenge, which will provide $10 million in awards for great mobile applications built on the Android platform over the next year."
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