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| Feb 8 2012 10:41am | Nokia Belle released |
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| "People who have the latest Symbian Nokia smartphones can now update them to Nokia Belle - bringing a fresh look to their screens thanks to the latest user interface. Once you have installed Nokia Belle you will still have the same phone, but it will... more | |
| Feb 8 2012 10:41am | Nokia Belle Released |
| "People who have the latest Symbian Nokia smartphones can now update them to Nokia Belle - bringing a fresh look to their screens thanks to the latest user interface. Once you have installed Nokia Belle you will still have the same phone, but it will... more | |
| Feb 8 2012 10:40am | ReactOS 0.3.14 released |
| Oh ReactOS. This project has been with us for a very long time now, and since day one, I never really knew what to think of it. They always seem to be running at least 300 miles behind the Win32 bandwagon, but what they've accomplished so far is insa... more | |
| Feb 8 2012 10:27am | RIM's Blackberry 10 native SDK will be open source |
| "Research in Motion has said the native software development kit for Blackberry 10 will be committed to open source. The firm, which has a history of basing its business on being a closed system, is shifting more and more to open source. Its upcoming... more | |
| Feb 8 2012 4:55am | 'The Apple fanboy problem' |
| Let this be a lesson. After posts by John Gruber and Shawn King, this happened to Violet Blue. "The misinformation gave a significant number of people fuel to stalk me, attack me for hours at a time, malign, insult me in disgusting ways, threaten me ... more | |
| Feb 8 2012 4:55am | 'The Apple Fanboy Problem' |
| Let this be a lesson. After posts by John Gruber and Shawn King, this happened to Violet Blue. "The misinformation gave a significant number of people fuel to stalk me, attack me for hours at a time, malign, insult me in disgusting ways, threaten me ... more | |
| Feb 8 2012 1:56am | No, Mac OS X wasn't ported to ARM by an intern |
| It's still early days, but this has the potential to put more fuel on the Apple rumour mill fire than anything else in recent times. A BA thesis by Dutch student Tristan Schaap details how, during his internship at Apple's Platform Technologies Group... more | |
| Feb 7 2012 8:58pm | Canonical Ceases Funding of Kubuntu Development |
| This shouldn't come as a huge surprise. Jonathan Riddell, lead developer of the Kubuntu project and the only person paid by Canonical to work on the KDE variant of the popular distribution, has announced that after the 12.04 release, Canonical will n... more | |
| Feb 7 2012 11:14am | Raspberry Pi To Hit Store Late February |
| Big news from the Raspberry Pi front today - they have a manufacturing date. "The boards will be finished on February 20. Eben and I may be going to China to make sure that the boards can be brought up properly for that date if necessary. We'll be ai... more | |
| Feb 7 2012 8:52am | C++ AMP Open Specification Published |
| "As an industry trend, advancement in heterogeneous hardware has progressed at a rapid pace. This in turn has fueled developer desire to target such hardware for accelerated computation, necessitating a significant step forward in programming models ... more | |
| Feb 7 2012 8:50am | Google Unveils 'Solve for X' |
| "Google's just pulled the curtains off of its 'Solve for X' website, and it appears that Google is nearing the creation of a TED-like think tank that will focus on talks about radical technological ideas. The site describes the effort as 'a place whe... more | |
| Feb 7 2012 8:44am | Poland, Czech Republic Pause ACTA Ratification Process |
| It would seem that freedom of speech and the open web are in better hands in Eastern Europe than they are in Western Europe. After Poland, the Czech Republic is the second country to suspend the process of ratifying ACTA. "A wave of protests against ... more | |
| Feb 6 2012 6:15am | Microsoft Removes Start Menu, Button from Windows 8 |
| For all intents and purposes, this is only a minor change, and were this any other operating system or graphical environment, it would never warrant an entire news item. However, we're talking Windows, the most popular desktop operating system of all... more | |
| Feb 5 2012 11:26pm | Cables Reveal Extent of US Copyright Pressure on Sweden |
| "Among the treasure troves of recently released WikiLeaks cables, we find one whose significance has bypassed Swedish media. In short: every law proposal, every ordinance, and every governmental report hostile to the net, youth, and civil liberties h... more | |
| Feb 5 2012 1:53am | EU Regulators Want Google to Halt New Privacy Policy |
| "A group of European regulators has written to Google calling on it to halt the introduction of its new privacy policy, saying it needs to investigate whether the proposals sufficiently protect users' personal data." I'd rather regulators are on top ... more | |
| Feb 5 2012 1:37am | Samsung Says EU Probe Will Find it Compliant |
| "Samsung, in its first acknowledgment of the European Commission's antitrust investigation of its patent licensing practices, Friday said it believed the commission would ultimately conclude the company complies with the rules. The investigation aros... more | |
| Feb 4 2012 10:43am | Do iOS Applications Crash More Often than Android Applications? |
| There's an article making the rounds right now about how applications on iOS crash more often than applications on Android. I'm not going to detail the entire methodology - the article itself does so - but it does raise an interesting talking point a... more | |
| Feb 3 2012 10:22am | *Parabola GNU/Linux: Freedom Packaged* |
| There are different reasons people use Unix-like operating systems, including configurable, availability free of charge, powerful command line interface an many more. Some people are motivated by the moral issue: they reject non-free software. Specif... more | |
| Feb 3 2012 10:11am | Google Now Scanning Android Apps for Malware |
| "Google has added an automated scanning process that is designed to keep malicious apps out of the Android Market , the company announced today. The new service, code-named 'Bouncer', scans apps for known malware, spyware, and Trojans, and looks for ... more | |
| Feb 3 2012 10:07am | Microsoft: Windows Phone 8 To Use NT Kernel |
| This is the kind of news just tailor-made for OSNews. After 16 years of trusty service, the venerable Windows CE will be history as far as Microsoft's mobile operating system offering goes - the next major version of Windows Phone will use the NT ker... more |


