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1» KDE 4.5 Desktop Activities Bring New Meaning to Organization
      Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:00:00 +0100

KDE 4.5 brings to the table plenty of useful, functional, innovative features. One of those very features is the Desktop Activity. Although many scoffed at the idea (even tried to get the feature pulled), those same naysayers are (hopefully) glad their requests were not followed. Why? The KDE Desktop Activities feature is a great new desktop metaphor that takes the Linux desktop to new levels of organization.


2» Get an Early Gmail Update on Your Android Phone [Updates]
      Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:00:00 +0100

Google's updating its Gmail app for Android, adding a floating header/ reply bar for usability and some real overall speed improvements. An unofficial beta of that better version is in the wild, and phones running Froyo (2.2) can try it out. 


3» Leaked WebOS 2.0 Shots Show a Bevy of New Features
      Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:00:00 +0100

Two dozen or so purported webOS 2.0 screenshots have fluttered out onto the web, and while their origins are a bit hazy, they show plenty of interesting new features, like Dropbox support baked into the OS. 


4» AMD Demos Fusion APUs inBerlin
      Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:00:00 +0100

In the HPC world, we tend to pay attention to the hottest server chips as they hit the market. But as I’m learning from the Exascale Report, much lower chip power requirements are needed for the industry to reach the next computing milestone of sustained Exaflops. This week AMD’s John...


5» EXT4 and Btrfs Regressions In Linux 2.6.36
      Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:00:00 +0100

Recently when benchmarking the Btrfs and EXT4 file-systems we were left surprised that the performance of the next-generation Btrfs file-system had regressed against EXT4 to the point where the evolutionary file-system is measurably faster in a greater number of disk benchmarks. In fact, even with solid-state drives and Btrfs offering...


6» First alpha for PostgreSQL 9.1 appears
      Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:00:00 +0100

The PostgreSQL developers have released a first alpha of the PostgreSQL 9.1 with several new major features added since version 9.0's development...


7» Firefox 3.6 gains anti-clickjacking support, Thunderbird & SeaMonkey updated
      Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:00:00 +0100

Firefox 3.6.9 now supports a server header which can help to prevent clickjacking. The new version also fixes 14 vulnerabilities, including the DLL vulnerability in the Windows version...


8» Clam or Klam? Either Way, It's Easy Linux Protection
      Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:00:00 +0100

Have you run a virus scan lately? Nope? Don't need to, you say. That's because you run a Linux OS. Think again. To quote the title line of Bob Dylan's third studio album, "the times they are a-changin.'" Yes they are. And part of that change is the greater risk...


9» Open-Xchange 6.18 integrates data from social networks
      Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:00:00 +0100

Open-Xchange has released version 6.18 of its email and groupware solution, which improves the integration of data from social networks and the management of emails and external accounts...


10» US government shouldn't fear foreign participation in Forge.gov
      Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:00:00 +0100

In an effort to reduce IT costs and boost efficiency, the US federal government is increasingly turning to open source software. We wrote last year about Forge.mil, a code sharing site that was established by the military to encourage broader collaboration and reuse of existing source code throughout the Department of Defense. The US General Services Administration (GSA) is planning...


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