Firefox 10 hits the streets (Digital Trends) Digital Trends - Mozilla has set loose Firefox 10, the latest version of its open-source Web browser for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. New features in the release are largely limited to technologies aimed at Web developers, but there’s one important new feature that ought to appeal to anyone who has augmented their browser’s functionality: by d...... Utah schools start adopting open source textbooks (AP) AP - Utah classrooms may soon be making the switch to open-source online textbooks that can be cheaper and easier to update. Ubuntu moves beyond the desktop with new TV interface, menu-killing navigation system (Digit... Digital Trends - Late last year, Ubuntu announced it would bring the open source operating system to mobile devices. Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth said Ubuntu will soon be found on “tablets, phones, TVs and smart screens from the car to the office kitchen, and it will connect those devices cleanly and seamlessly to the desktop, the server a...... Android tablets approach tipping point, mimic smartphone rise (Appolicious) Appolicious - Google?s winning smartphone strategy was to make Android open source and invite anyone and everyone to create a device for their mobile platform. It worked, as HTC, Motorola and others jumped on the opportunity to create smartphones to rival the iPhone. However, the market was reset when Apple released the iPad. Yet another game-chang...... HP's Plan to Open-Source WebOS: What's Taking So Long? (Mashable) Mashable - Hewlett-Packard just announced it would fulfill its promise to make the code of its dormant mobile operating system, webOS, open-source ... by September. The company, which effectively stopped the webOS platform in its tracks when it killed the HP TouchPad tablet and Palm line of phones last summer, said in a statement that it would grad...... Mozilla Challenges Prove Crowdsourcing Still Works for Fundraising (Mashable) Mashable - The Mozilla Firefox Challenge has named a winner -- but the real champion is the public, who yet again proved that crowdsourcing and grass roots campaigns are an effective way to raise money for charity. The Challenge, hosted on the Crowdrise fundraising platform, pitted 12 celebrities in a race to see who could raise the most money for ...... Samsung seeks to merge smartphone operating platforms (Reuters) Reuters - Samsung Electronics Co plans to merge its own 'bada' mobile phone operating software with an open-source Tizen platform as the world's biggest smartphone maker seeks alternatives to Google's Android in its devices. Microsoft requiring Secure Boot for ARM devices, hamstringing Linux (Digital Trends) Digital Trends - As Windows 8 gets closer to reality, more details of Microsoft’s make-it-or-break-it effort to translate its desktop computing success to ARM-driven tablets are emerging. First, Microsoft revealed that ARM-based Windows 8 devices won”t be able to run legacy Windows software—it’ll be the Metro way, or the highway. Now, Micro...... Sony to disable another original PS3 feature: "Install Other OS" (The Gadget Hound) The Gadget Hound - Sure, the original launch PlayStation 3 was expensive, but it came loaded with such powerful features as native support for old PS2 titles and the ability to install another operating system — such as Linux — directly onto the console. You can save this news page by submitting it to your favorite sites:
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