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"Canonical is seeking a business development lead to engage and develop strong relationships with industry partners in the run up to the launch of Ubuntu as a smartphone operating system,".

Welcome to the DuckDuckGo Quack and Hack 2012. This event is made as introduction for the world of contributing to DuckDuckGo, with the main target to be set on the teaching of Perl basics, especially modern and high efficient Perl. The event is 2 days longs, from 30. June 2012 to 1. July 2012

Firefox developers are considering making web plugins like Adobe Flash an opt-in feature. A very early version of the “click-to-play” option for plugins is now available in the Firefox nightly channel. Whether or not the click-to-play approach that Mozilla is considering will ever become the default behavior for Firefox remains to be seen.

Canonical is planning on three major additions to the Linux-verse that could easily be a complete reversal of fortune (to the tune of the late Steve Jobs miraculously re-joining Apple).

Google's upcoming "Daisy" Chromebook will reportedly use Samsung's ARM-based Exynos 5250 SoC. Announced back in November 2011, this 32-nm chip is based on two ARM Cortex-A15 MPCores clocked at 2.0 GHz, and an ARM Mali-T604 MP4 GPU. So far the chip isn't due to go into mass production until 2Q12, meaning it may be a while before we see the ARM-based Chromebook arrive on the market.

According to some FCC leak and rumoring, it looks like Sony is about to release a new Chromebook and the FCC info may point towards it running on an ARM Processor! T25 is the leaked processor info, that sound like the Tegra 250 T25.

We’ll show Ubuntu neatly integrated into Android at Mobile World Congress next week. Carry just the phone, and connect it to any monitor to get a full Ubuntu desktop with all the native apps you want, running on the same device at the same time as Android.

The somewhat oblique yet obvious implication: that AMD's future products will eventually include chips with ARM CPU cores for markets where it makes sense.

HP has published the code of Enyo, the underlying JavaScript framework of the webOS platform. It is available from a public repository on GitHub. Enyo 2 is lightweight (at the time of this writing, roughly 13k gzipped), easy to digest, and powerful.

Google today announced a new privacy policy and new terms of service that will take effect on March 1 and eliminate some 60-odd disparate policies across its myriad services.

David Mandala, Manager of the ARM Team at Canonical talks about the status of Ubuntu Linux on ARM Laptops and Servers, and about their plans for Ubuntu on ARM until 2014 and beyond...

I just received an email from Demand Progress, a progressive web site, proclaiming, “Wow. We just won.” The reference, of course, was to Wednesday’s Internet blackout to protest SOPA and PIPA.

Corel’s new AfterShot Pro software runs on Windows, Mac, Linux(!) and offers a $99 package for managing photos including RAW handling, image editing, and quick library management.

New efforts could make the open source browser even more secure. The year 2012 will likely be a milestone for Mozilla's Firefox web browser, as the open source group aims to further accelerate web innovation.

Friendica, Gnu Social, Diaspora, Status.net--these are just a few of the big name projects in the websphere of open source distributed social network projects. In fact the list is quite big.

OpenSSL has released an alert to warn of at least six security vulnerabilities affecting users of the open source implementation of the SSL and TLS protocols.

Moving users to the rapid release where Mozilla issues a new version of its browser every six weeks is important to the company, since it still supports the two year old browser with security updates.

Canonical will have a presence at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, from the 10th – 13th January. The booth, in the Upper Level of South Hall 4, is at location 35379 within the Las Vegas Convention Center.

I am pleased to announce the new version of the IceCat web browser. This version is based on the Firefox version 9.0.1[1]. To reduce load on the main server...

With the browser market dominated by Firefox, Chrome and Internet Explorer you could be forgiven for thinking that small browsers have little to offer. But Qupzilla, a multi-platform Qt-based web-browser, is worth taking for a spin. It boasts features comparable to Chrome and Firefox, yet uses less resources than either.