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Last month’s Hadoop Summit in Santa Clara, California, saw a number of interesting developments around this increasingly hot open source project…

The GNOME and LiMo Foundations have today announced their intention to collaborate closely with a key partnership. With immediate effect the LiMO Foundation will become a member of the GNOME Foundation’s Advisory Board and the GNOME Foundation will become an Industry Liaison Partner for the LiMo Foundation. According to the pair, this development represents a natural formalization founded upon the significant use of GNOME Mobile software components within Release 2 and Release 3 of the LiMo Platform.

The Zbox attempts to take GPU acceleration to the next level with the powerful next-gen ION behind it. Russell Barnes puts it through its paces...

After putting so much effort into an application it would be shame to see it not being used just because it was only available in English. Most people pay more attention and give more respect to a product which is available in their own language.If you want a global audience for your software, it is very important that you localise your application for your users. Here's how...

It’s time to go beyond the ‘hello world’ app. Let’s look into real-world situations and start doing big things with your Android development project...

Committing these sins will cause you to burn in Android hell and you will have no place in the Market. Kunal Deo reveals all and he really means business...

Lots of people fear the cloud because of security and privacy concerns. Christian Baun looks to the clouds and offers nine common-sense tips for saving your data on and around cloud services...

Koen Vervloesem doesn’t like shell scripts that are difficult to maintain, therefore he uses Ruby for his sysadmin tasks. Do the same with his four-page guide…

Among the many exciting announcements in their annual I/O conference, Google released the Android 2.2 SDK (FroYo) to developers. This highly anticipated platform upgrade brings with it exciting improvements and features for users and new tools for application developers and publishers. Here's what we made of it…

Last month saw the opening and subsequent closing of the 2.6.35 kernel’s merge window, the period of time during which all of the exciting new features that have been waiting in the wings are considered for merging into the official ‘mainline’ kernel source tree...

TeamViewer is a very powerful cross-platform remote desktop sharing tool that has recently been ported to the Linux platform. Sukrit Dhandhania takes it for a test drive…

Ubuntu community leader and Server and Cloud Ubuntu Developer, Dave Walker, explains the processes behind bringing Maverick Meerkat to the masses…

Six years ago, Jane Silber met Mark Shuttleworth at a party in London. Having started at Canonical just over a week later, she is now stepping into Shuttleworth’s shoes as the CEO of the company behind the Ubuntu Linux distribution…

Robotics and artificial intelligence enthusiast Francisco Paz has launched a new open source robot called Qbo. Armless fun or Henry with attitude? Regardless, it's probably the most impressive open source project we've ever seen…

Whilst cloud is being sold as the newest most flexible and therefore sensible approach, SME’s who are considering the dazzling benefits of having “technology on tap” would do well to consider where cloud has come from before re-thinking their entire IT infrastructure…

The revamped software and a wireless interface makes Excito's latest model the best Linux home and small-business server on the market. As Dmitri Popov discovers, literally everyone should have a Buba 2 WiFi...

In creating Ubuntu Linux, Canonical has focused on ease of use, and this extends to the install procedure. To this end, Ubuntu eschewed many of the detailed questions that had discouraged potential Linux users of an earlier era. However, despite relative improvements in that area, the installation is still peppered with questions. This means that an admin tasked with the deployment of more than three or four computers is doomed to spend an entire morning dashing around, typing in responses to the same questions over and over again.

Adrian Bridgwater talks cross-platform application and user interface framework development with Qt program manager Volker Hilsheimer…

Bijk is a web service offering a whole bunch of server monitoring capabilities with a simple setup and at no cost. It supports most of the popular flavours of Linux used on servers. And it creates neat-looking graphs from the data…

Need more storage? You could buy a new hard disk, SSD or USB drive. But why not migrate to the cloud and make use of Amazon Web Services (AWS)?