Google has been accused of illegally using its dominance in search in the European market to favour its own services and harm rivals. …read more Source:: Legal
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Against the odds, Canonical and Jolla trot out iOS, Android alternatives
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Four smartphone OSes that hope to find room next to Android and iOS were on display at Mobile World Congress, but the most exciting were Ubuntu Phone and Sailfish OS. Apple and Google have further tightened their grip on the smartphone OS market; they had a market share of 96.1 percent last year, up from…
Going open source on Android with F-Droid
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Android . It can be a divisive word in the free and open source software world. Some embrace it, others shun it. Source: Tech
Enterprise Advances Brought Linux Success in 2014
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For Linux, 2014 could easily be labeled the year enterprise really and truly embraced Linux. It could just as easily be labeled the year that nearly forgot Linux on the desktop. If you weren’t Docker, containers, OpenStack, or big data ─ chances are the spotlight didn’t brighten your day much. If, however, you (or your…
Android 5.0 Lollipop Embraces the Enterprise
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With version 5.0, Android makes the work of enterprise admins much easier. Security is stronger and more standardized. Android fragmentation is crumbling. Read more at Enterprise Open Source Toolkit Source: Linux
Firefox 33 brings H.264 support, lets you send videos to Chromecast and Roku devices from Android
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More than a month after Mozilla came out with Firefox 32, the company has updated the web browser for Android, Windows, Linux, and Mac platforms, bumping it to version 33.0. Aside from bug fixes, the update also brings some new features as well as performance improvements. One of the notable features of the update is…
Ubuntu Touch RTM released: Can it take on Android and iOS?
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In today’s open source roundup: Canonical releases the RTM version of Ubuntu Touch. Plus: Fourteen ways to contribute to open source without being a programmer, and advice for open source programmers Android and iOS have long been the two top dogs in the mobile world. Source: Tech
Wikileaks releases Finfisher malware to help developers defend against it
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WIKILEAKS HAS RELEASED Finfisher “weaponised malware” that it claims is being used by governments around the world to spy on journalists and activists, in order to help developers defend against it. Finfisher, which was first revealed in Wikileaks documents published in December 2011, can be used to intercept data from Mac OS X, Windows and…
Free Software Foundation statement on the new iPhone, Apple Pay, and Apple Watch
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Today, Apple announced new iPhone models, a watch, and a payment service. In response, FSF executive director John Sullivan made the following statement: It is astonishing to see so much of the technology press acting as Apple’s marketing arm. What’s on display today is widespread complicity in hiding the most newsworthy aspect of the announcement…
Embarcadero Launches RAD Studio XE7
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Delivers New Technologies for Extending Existing Windows Applications to Mobile Devices, Gadgets and Wearables Maidenhead, UK – September 2, 2014 – Embarcadero Technologies, a leading provider of software solutions for application and database development, today launched Embarcadero® RAD Studio XE7, the complete solution to build connected apps for Windows, Android, iOS, Mac OS X, gadgets,…