Open source cloud computing platform OpenStack announced the “Austin” code release of Compute and Object Storage. Since the project's inception three months ago, OpenStack has built an active community of contributors, delivered on its code release and feature commitments, attracted new member organizations and received interest from enterprises and service providers.
In the game of technological one-upmanship, the browser used to be an easy place to win. Most people used Internet Explorer, so it was simple to gain the edge by using Firefox. But now Firefox is common, and even Opera and Google Chrome are losing their cachet. Safari ships standard with every Mac, so everyone, the cool and the uncool, have it by default. They're all excellent browsers, but they're still the status quo. Is there anywhere else to turn for a bit of distinction?
Good news for Droid X owners now, as months after release, the official Android 2.2 Froyo source code for the Droid X has been released by Motorola. Although the release is a good news for Droid X owners, the big question is: What will developers do with it?
Tech blog Droid-life said that since the source code is now freely available to download, it is likely that some developers would use the opportunity to come up with something special for the Droid X.
The first commercially available fully open source Android Development kit is being released by Liquidware. This modular hardware platform and its open source software were developed at the request of Android embedded engineers and developers. It is used to facilitate speedy prototyping and deploying of Android-based systems.
Mozilla repaired a slew of bugs Wednesday in a comprehensive Firefox update totaling nine fixes, five of which are deemed critical. Altogether, the latest version, Firefox 3.6.11, addresses five flaws that enable hackers to launch malicious attacks onto users' systems remotely, as well as two errors that carry the slightly less severe rating of "high" and one that is considered "moderate." The update runs across Windows, Mac OS X and Linux environments.
Yahoo recently released a new version of its Messenger app for iPhone with support for video calls, along with a promise that an Android versionw as on its way. While the Android app hasn’t officially been launched yet, it will apparently come preloaded on the upcoming T-Mobile myTouch 4G smartphone… and since some hackers have already managed to extract the firmware from that phone, a member of the xda-developers forum took the next logical step and figured out how to get the installer file for the new version of the Yahoo Messenger app.
Phandroid has posted what is quite possibly the worst "blurry cam" photo ever seen, which reveals some new details about Android's upcoming "Gingerbread" 3.0 (or 2.5) release. The photo is claimed to be a shot of a Nexus One running the Gingerbread release, which is yet to be revealed by Google.
On first glance of the image, not much has changed, but if you squint hard enough, you can see the notification bar has had a subtle make over, and there are some subtle UI changes throughout the OS.
A HACKER has written a program to spy on phones that can be remotely controlled via SMS text messages.
The ingenious Phone Espionage Suite is coded so it will install silently from a SD card. Once installed it can harvest an array of personal user information from the targeted phone, including its number, deleted call logs and SMS logs. It can also retrieve the external IP address of the phone if it's online.
Adobe has been busy, they've revamped their PDF reading software and taken the roman-based numbering system in their grace with the release of "Adobe Reader X" - it includes better security and also a change UI. Adobe's flagship PDF creation software, Acrobat has also been upgraded.
Reader X will provide a sandbox to limit the access that PDF-based scripts can have over the users OS, in turn limiting the attack range that PDF's usually provide - lately PDF readers have been the victims of attacks from hackers.
As we’ve recounted in earlier instalments, XBMC took a long time to hit its full open source, multi-platform glory. But by 2008, not only had it successfully spread across multiple operating systems, it had also inspired a growing clan of daughter projects which took its code and swizzled it for extra effect.
(By the way, we know we’ve already run two instalments on the history of Boxee and have only just got to Boxee itself. But there’s nothing wrong with a little context, is there?)
