Software Stories for 2010

Windows Phone 7 Marketplace Hack Demonstrated 89
What Can a Lawyer Do For Open Source? 162
Thin Client, Or Fat Client? That Is the Question 450
Old Facebook Apps Still Plunder Your Privacy 101
Joel Test Updated 182
A Real World HTML 5 Benchmark 163
Progress In Algorithms Beats Moore's Law 166
10 Dos and Don'ts To Make Sysadmins' Lives Easier 246
NX Compression Technology To Go Closed Source 286
Google Donates Windowbuilder, Codepro To Eclipse 150
Best Open Source Genealogy Software? 292
Microsoft Security Essentials 2.0 Released 175
Dropbox 1.0 Finally Released 307
Opera Goes To 11, With Extensions and Tab Stacks 296
Yahoo! Says Delicious To Get the Boot, Not the Axe 84
PlayStation App Coming To iOS, Android 47
Word Lens — Augmented Reality Translation 203
Gmail Creator Says Chrome OS Is As Good As Dead 349
BitTorrent Client Offers P2P Without Central Tracking 218
Download Firefox, Feed a Red Panda 90
Google Quashes 13 Chrome Bugs, Adds PDF Viewer 177
AVG 2011 Update Causes Widespread Problems For 64-Bit Windows 318
ProFTPD.org Compromised, Backdoor Distributed 152
Aussie Government Gives PDF the Thumbs Down 179
Scammers Can Hide Fake URLs On the iPhone 68
SAP Ordered To Pay $1.3 Billion To Oracle 151
BP Ignored Safety Modeling Software To Save Time 203
KDE 4.6 Beta 1 – a First Look 224
CA Sues Over DB2 Migration Tool 104
NetBSD 5.1 Released 1
Ubuntu May Move To Rolling Releases 246
Opera 11 Beta Released, With Extensions Support 142
Code-Stealing Drone Vendor Settles With Devs 28
Did an Apple Engineer Invent FB Messages In 2003? 128
Adobe Launches Sandboxed Reader X 201
Free-Form Linguistic Input In Mathematica 8 84
Georgia College's New Policy — Reporting All P2P Users To the Police 421
Where Do I Go Now That Oracle Owns OpenOffice.org? 510
CDE — Making Linux Portability Easy 385
RockMelt — Right Browser, Wrong Platform? 48
Modeling Software Showed BP Cement As Unstable 160
Google Engineer Sponsors New Kinect Bounties 96
Firefox 4 Regains Speed Mojo With No. 2 Placing 98
Sophos Free A-V For Mac May Kill Time Machine Backups 133
Firefox 4 Beta For Mobile Now Faster and Sleeker 70
CDN Optimizing HTML On the Fly 121
Doing Digital Art When You Can't Use Your Hand? 131
W3C Says IE9 Is Currently the Most HTML5 Compatible Browser 382
IE6 Addiction Inhibits Windows 7 Migrations 470
For Firefox 4, You'll Need To Wait Until 2011 238
NASA To Auction Automated Code Generation Patents 134
Software Finds Plagiarism In Research 111
Why Mozilla Needs To Pick a New Fight 351
Firefox Extension Makes Social-Network ID Spoofing Trivial 185
Chatbot Suzette Wins 20th Annual Loebner Prize, Fools One Judge 257
Want Flash Player On a MacBook Air? Download It Yourself 353
IBM Says New Software Will Help Predict Natural Disasters 72
Firefox 4's JavaScript Now Faster Than Chrome's 352
In the Face of Android, Why Should Nokia Stick With MeeGo? 336
Asterisk 1.8 Released With Support For Google Voice 83
Electronic Life Makes Evolving Art 54
10 Oddly Useful Specialty Web Browsers 72
Gosling Reacts To Apple's Java Deprecation 436
China's Official Newspaper Pans iPad — Too Locked Down 319
Cheap Software Tools Give New Life To Stop-Motion Animation 111
Microsoft Unbundles Software For NY City 131
Microsoft Announces Web-Based Office365 210
Ray Ozzie To Step Down From His Role At Microsoft 229
Adobe Reader X With Sandbox Due In November 110
Top Facebook Apps Violate Privacy Terms 95
How Do Browsers Scale? 141
Can Apps Really Damage a Cellular Network? 309
FSF Announces Hardware Endorsement Criteria 273
Norwegian Day Traders Convicted For Manipulating Computer Trading System 299
Opera Embraces Extensions For v.11 283
Microsoft Admits OpenOffice.org Is a Contender 480
Erasing Objects From Video In Real Time 175
NSF Wants To Know How Much Software Really Costs 181
Indian Military Organization To Develop Its Own OS 466
Word Processors — One Writer's Further Retreat 391
Software Evolution Storylines, Inspired By XKCD 136
Software Theft a Problem For Actual Thieves, Too 152
Minnesota Moving To Microsoft's Cloud 345
Many Top iPhone Apps Collect Unique Device ID 194
Amazon Building Its Own Android App Market? 165
Code Repository Atlassian Buys Competitor BitBucket 150
Red Hat Urges USPTO To Deny Most Software Patents 175
Android Software Piracy Rampant 510
OpenOffice.org Declares Independence From Oracle, Becomes LibreOffice 648
Microsoft To Release Emergency Fix For ASP.NET Bug 73
Devs Bet Big On Android Over Apple's iOS 328
Should I Learn To Program iOS Or Android Devices? 403
Most Software Patent Trolls Lose Lawsuits 108
CIA Drones May Have Used Illegal, Inaccurate Code 279
Nokia Paying $10M For Symbian Software Devs 210
Researcher Builds Machines That Daydream 271
Codec2 — an Open Source, Low-Bandwidth Voice Codec 179
PostgreSQL 9.0 Released 344
Oracle Launches 'Private Cloud' Box 82
DRM-Free Games Site GOG.com Gone 326
Researchers Demo ASP.NET Crypto Attack 98
First Google Voice App Hits the App Store 95
Security a Concern As HTML5 Advances 234
BSA's Latest Piracy Claims 'Shockingly Misleading,' Says Geist 277
Adobe Releases New 64-Bit Flash Plugin For Linux 240
Microsoft To Issue Blanket License To NGOs 255
Microsoft Helps Adobe Block PDF Zero-Day Exploit 93
How Good Software Makes Us Stupid 385
IE9 Team Says "Our GPU Acceleration Is Better Than Yours" 360
Microsoft Complaints Help Russian Gov't Pursue Political Opposition Groups 249
Spaceflight Formation Flying Test Bed Takes Off 64
Court Says First Sale Doctrine Doesn't Apply To Licensed Software 758
Apple's Developer Tools Turnaround 'Great News' For Adobe 234
Mozilla Unleashes JaegerMonkey Enabled Firefox 4 279
DHS CyberSecurity Misses 1085 Holes On Own Network 86
IOS 4.1 Jailbroken Already 315
Separating Hope From Hype In Quantum Computing 109
Breathing New Life Into Old DirectDraw Games 274
Software (and Appropriate Input Device) For a Toddler? 417
New Malware Imitates Browser Warning Pages 143
Flawed iTunes Stands Out Among Apple's Products 390
Google Releases Chrome 6, Pays $4337 In Bounties 177
Why Microsoft Is Being Nicer To Open Source 231
Freetype Lands In... Microsoft Office? 212
iPhone App In App Store Limbo Open Sourced 432
Microsoft's Security Development Process Under CC License 164
Google Confirms Chrome GPU Acceleration 186
Skipping Traditional Recruitment, Going Straight To the Source 207
PowerPoint Rant Costs Colonel His Job 194
Developer Demands Pirate Bay Not Remove Torrent 203
Glibc Is Finally Free Software 337
Throwing Out Software That Works 622
Legal Analysis of Oracle v. Google 206
Why Software Patents Are a Joke — Literally 311
How Can I Make Testing Software More Stimulating? 396
F1 Simulators Revealed 72
Incorporating Swarm Intelligence Into Computer AI 64
The Risks of Entering Programming Contests 154
Extreme Memory Oversubscription For VMs 129
Artificial Life Forms Evolve Basic Memory, Strategy 206
CIA Software Developer Goes Open Source, Instead 115
AmigaOS Twenty-Five Years of Check-Ins Visualized 82
Apple Mines App Store Submissions For Patent Ideas 307
A Pointed Critique of Thunderbird 3's Performance Compared to v.2 234
Letter To Abolish Software Patents In Australia 166
Intuit Still Fighting Government Tax Software 374
Linux Kernel 2.6.35 Released 159
TI Calculator DRM Defeated 234
Justice Department Joins Fraud Lawsuit Against Oracle 100
Tribalism Is the Enemy Within, Says Shuttleworth 655
An iPhone App Store That Apple Doesn't Control 144
Google Schedules Chrome 6, 7, and 8 For This Year 138
BSOD Issues On Deepwater Horizon 383
WordPress Creator GPL Says WP Template Must Be GPL'd 571
Microsoft Makes Major Shift In Disclosure Policy 65
'Bloatware' Becoming a Problem On Android Phones 415
Open Source Transcription Software? 221
Wine 1.2 Released 427
Software Now Un-Patentable In New Zealand 221
AI Predicts Manhole Explosions In New York City 213
Open Source Music Fingerprinter Gets Patent Nastygram 487
Skype Encryption (Partly) Revealed 151
Apple Implements the CalDAV Standard For MobileMe 152
A Flood of Stable Linux Kernels Released 105
Pixel Inventor Goes Back To the Drawing Board 304
Good IC / Electronic Component Inventory Software? 70
Customers Question Tech Industry's Takeover Spree 156
Compiz Project Releases C++ Based v0.9.0 237
Users Report Foul Play In App Store Rankings, Purchases 144
Opera 10.60 Released, With Faster JS, WebM Video Support 301
Finding Open Source Projects Looking For Help? 151
Local Newspapers Use F/OSS For a Day 460
Many Popular Windows Apps Ignore Security Options 202
Poor Vision? There's an App For That 146
NASA Tests Hardware, Software On Armadillo Rocket 108
Firefox Mobile 1.1 Released 57
Diaspora On Schedule, One Month In 90
Stop the Math Press's Presses — Knuth Announces iTex 284
Porn Industry Ready To Drop Flash 249
VP8 Codec Coming To FFmpeg 218
Porting Lemmings In 36 Hours 154
Australia's Largest ISP Ditches Linux Mirror 173
Google Has Android Remote App Install Power, Too 278
Google Remotely Nukes Apps From Android Phones 509
Best OSS CFD Package For High School Physics? 105
New Zealand U-Turns, Will Grant Software Patents 94
White House Cracks Down On Piracy & Counterfeiting 323
Preserving Virtual Worlds 122
VLC 1.1 Forced To Drop Shoutcast Due To AOL Anti-OSS Provision 315
IBM's Question-Answering System "Watson" Revisited 170
Flock Switches To Chromium For New Beta 154
WordPress 3.0 Released 79
Knuth Got It Wrong 298
Ubuntu Replaces F-Spot With Shotwell 361
A File-Centric Photo Manager? 326
North Korean Flash Games For Export 211
Backdoor Found In UnrealIRCd Source Archive 174
Tegra-Based Android Devices To Get Space MMO Vendetta Online 62
Adobe Goes To Flash 10.1, Forgoes Security Fix For 10 320
AI Astronomer Aids Effort To Analyze Galaxies 40
What Is New In PostgreSQL 9.0 213
Venture Capitalists Lobby Against Software Patents 127
Gov't App Contests Are Cool, But Are They Useful? 41
Restraining Order On Commercial Spyware Lifted 97
Hardware Companies Team Up To Fight Mobile Linux Fragmentation 47
Germany Finds Kismet, Custom Code In Google Car 237
How To Get Rejected From the App Store 252
Apple Blindsides More AppStore Developers 716
Mobile Game Trojan Calls the South Pole 195
Publishers Campaign For Universal E-Book Format 348
How To Take a Big Vendor To Small Claims and Win 171
Google WebM Calls "Open Source" Into Question 185
The Man At Microsoft Charged With Destroying IE6 458
Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx Benchmarked and Reviewed 164
IT Infrastructure As a House of Cards 216
Nero Files Antitrust Complaint Against MPEG-LA 247
When Rewriting an App Actually Makes Sense 289
How To Go Broke Selling Zero-Day Exploits 66
PETA Creates New Animal-Friendly Software License 356
Microsoft's New Attempt To Dominate Robotics 225
Benchmark Software For Windows 7 Rollout? 215
Would You Die To Respect a Software License? 233
OpenBSD 4.7 Released 143
Theora Development Continues Apace, VP8 Now Open Source 312
Software Recognizes Sarcastic Tweets 168
Is Diaspora the Future of Free Software Funding? 146
Scientists Propose Guaranteed Hypervisor Security 104
Firefox With H.264 HTML 5 Support = Wild Fox 477
Beautifully Rendered Music Notation With HTML5 259
For Non-Profits, Common Ground vs. Raiser's Edge? 97
UK Court Finds Company Liable For Software Defects 205
BSA Says Software Theft Exceeded $51B In 2009 350
Seeing the Forest For the Trees 64
Microsoft's Free, Online Version of Office To Premiere This Week 264
How To Behave At a Software Company? 842
House Calls For Hearing On Stock Market "Glitch" 180
Law Professors Developing Patent License For FOSS 41
In AU, Court Rules Downloaded Software Is Not "Goods" 81
Microsoft Office 2010, Dissected 291
Metasploit As Case Study In Selling a FOSS Project 50
Rest In Peas — the Death of Speech Recognition 342
Chains of RFCs and Chains of Laws? 168
MATLAB Can't Manipulate 64-Bit Integers 334
Why Tor Users Should Be Cautious About P2P Privacy 122
Tom's Hardware On the Current Stable of Office Apps For Linux 121
Steve Jobs Publishes Some "Thoughts On Flash" 944
Ogg Format Accusations Refuted 248
Simple CMS For Mixed Mac/Windows Team? 119
Why Linux Is Not Attracting Young Developers 742
Palm's Software Chief Quits 98

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