Linux Heavyweights Develop Secure Boot Strategy

Canonical and Red Hat have issued a joint statement regarding Microsoft’s plan to make UEFI Secure Boot a requirement of Windows 8. Simultaneously, The Linux Foundation has issued a similar statement.

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LibreOffice Developer Glimpse Proves Balance

Florian Effenberger recently posted statistics of the number of developers contributing to the LibreOffice project. Several months ago, Cedric Bosdonnat offered data on the number of contribution and contributors from the various sources.

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The Open Source Office Software Sector Heats Up

The world of LibreOffice and OpenOffice(.org) has been heating up recently with several exciting and, at times, bewildering developments. The Document Foundation remains very active as is LibreOffice development, but Oracle has given up on OpenOffice

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Ubuntu 11.04, Unity Released to Mixed Reactions

Ubuntu 11.04 was released on April 28 with a brand new interface and a couple default application changes. But all the talk is about Unity, that brand new interface. As one might predict, reactions are all over the spectrum.

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Tokyoflash Cobra LED Concept Watch

The guys over at Tokyoflash are at it again with their cool watch concepts,  the latest one if the Cobra LED watch,this design was actually submitted by one of their readers.

As you can see from the photos the watch numbers are engraved on the outside of the watch, with 

minutes and numbers separate by different ‘decks’.

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Windows 8 Tablets Coming From Lenovo And Acer In Quarter 3?

We are expecting to see the first Windows 8 tablets launch some time in 2012, and now according to a recent report from Digitimes, we may see some new Windows 8 tablets from Acer and Lenovo in quarter 3 of 2012.

These new Windows 8 tablets from Lenovo and Acer are

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CyanogenMod 9 Equipped With 4G LTE Toggle Switch For Verizon Galaxy Nexus? (video)

If you were a little disappointed to learn that there would be no LTE toggle switch on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus. You will be pleased to know that Gregory Sarrica, is currently developing a toggle button for the next-gen internet connectivity, to hopefully be included in a future build of CyanogenMod 9.

Gregory has contacted the Engadget Mobile website to reveal the

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iPhone 5 Concept Design

We have been hearing rumors over the past few months of what features will be included in the new iPhone 5, now designer Michal Bonikowski has put together some of the rumors into a concept design of what he thinks the iPhone 5 may look like.

As you can see from the photos below, this concept design features

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Facebook Stores 1,222 PDF Files On A Single User (video)

Have you ever wondered just how much information Facebook has stored about you and your online activities? Facebook user Max Schrems of Vienna was intrigued to know, and requested Facebook send him everything that the company stored about him. All Europeans have a right to do this, because Facebook is based in Dublin, Ireland.

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Siri Curses at 12-year-old!?

The geeks that programmed Siri at Apple had a sense of humor. Siri will tell you the answer to life, the universe and everything (42 naturally). Siri will also get cross if you ask it to open the pod bay doors. That is nothing compared what a mom and her 12-year-old son from the UK claim Siri said to the boy.

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Hackers Eager To Launch A Satellite In The Name Of Freedom

Something incredible happened over at the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin on New Year’s Eve. According to news reports, the hacker meet united those in attendance to embark on an ambitious program. In fact, outside of government and multinational efforts, no one has quite dreamed up a plan as fantastic as theirs.

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Apple TV Hacked To Run Fullscreen iOS iPad Apps At 720p (video)

The developers behind the Apple TV MobileX project have released a new video of their work this week, which shows iOS applications running in full 720p via a modified Apple TV.

In the video after the break you can see Apple TV MobileX being used to run applications such as Facebook, Maps, Safari and YouTube. However most

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AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note To Feature NFC

We recently heard that the Samsung Galaxy Note is expected to be launched in the US either this month or early next month, and now it would appear that the AT&T version may be slightly different than the European version.

According to the guys over at Sammobile, the AT&T

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Linux

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Linux is a complete operating system that is similar but not identical to UNIX. It runs on a wide variety of hardware, ranging from 386's/486's/Pentiums/Pentium II's to more exotic hardware such as Digital Alpha computers, PowerPCs, and Silicon Graphics

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