This is kinda interesting…. Ubuntu One, Ubuntu’s cloud storage locker service with music purchase and multi-device sync support, is now AirPlay capable, thanks to iOS 4.2. What that means, essentially, is that Ubuntu One Music (part of Ubuntu One Mobile) can stream your cloud-stored MP3s directly to an AirPlay compatible ... Continue Reading

It was announced this morning that Novell has sold off some portion of its intellectual properties to CPTN Holdings, (backed by Microsoft) for $450 million. The remainder of Novell assets will be acquired by Attachmate Corporation for about $2.2 billion. This should be of no surprise as Novell staked a ... Continue Reading

Canonical is changing the default interface on the next release of Ubuntu from GNOME to Unity, a new open source project that focuses on simplified interface and three dimensional displays. Canonical made the switch for the next release of its Ubuntu desktop Linux distribution, because of increasingly divergent views of how ... Continue Reading

Windows/Mac/Linux: Opera's letting us have a look at how extensions will work in their browser with the Opera 11 Alpha. It's very Chrome-like and convenient, and the browser itself has picked up a few improvements in this version, too. But first: the extensions. You grab them from Opera's gallery, which had ... Continue Reading

A Smart Pad? That's just Toshiba's product category, according to Netbook Italia's latest post on the tablet (it's previously shown off some apparent imagery). The publication has published new renders -- including a dock peripheral -- and some purported specs. Here's what's being said: Android 2.2, NVIDIA ... Continue Reading

We reported about the release few days ago and Firefox 4 has been making some buzz around. With the browser market heating up, none of the companies want to stay behind and Firefox 4 is an effort in such direction by Mozilla. Firefox 4 will be a little more slimmer ... Continue Reading

We have two new releases .. both are not final releases, one is getting closer to a final release in two weeks, and the other still a long way off. OpenSUSE released their 11.3 RC2 and Ubuntu released their 10.10 Alpha 2. ... Continue Reading

Never thought it was possible? A recent visit to XDA, not only surprised me with a new theme, but also the news from htc_linux with a couple of the photos that will blow your mind. Ubuntu running on HTC HD2? And looks pretty smooth as well! Thanks PocketNow, a very good sign ... Continue Reading

Cisco, the networking giant and Red Hat (open source software company) are expanding thier efforts in the virtualization field... jointly. In an announcement made today at the annual Red Hat Summit that is held in Boston, the two companies said they would combine cisco Virtual Network Link technology with Red Hat ... Continue Reading

ZDNet among others reported and I thought we should also be aware. According to this report, the malware-compromised code was included in the official Gentoo distribution: Would you consider it to be a big deal if it was found in a distribution? Gentoo just released an update to remove the backdoor. http://packages.gentoo.org/package/net-irc/unrealircd I’m ... Continue Reading