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The Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL) have been natively ported to the Sony PlayStation 3 console...

Prepaid phone provider Boost Mobile announced a mid-range Samsung smartphone with a QWERTY keyboard and a $230 no-contract price tag. The Samsung Transform Ultra runs Android 2.3 on a 1GHz processor, and offers 3G, Wi-Fi, GPS, a three-megapixel camera, a front-facing VGA webcam, and Android Market support, the mobile provider says....

Making delirious dictators worldwide quake in their boots, the Tails Project recently announced numerous improvements to its anonymity-obsessed Linux distro, The Amnesic Incognito Live System, aka Tails. more>>

Aaeon announced a 3.5-inch single board computer (SBC) with dual display support and a touchscreen controller. The GENE-LN05 Rev.B offers a choice of Intel Atom N455 or dual-core, 1.8GHz D525 processors with up to 2GB or 4GB of DDR3 memory, respectively, and features CompactFlash, SATA, gigabit Ethernet, USB, serial, Parallel, and expansion interfaces, says the company....

Hypervisor hammering in the Cloud Foundry VMware's SpringSource unit has released Java tooling making it faster and easier to build big clouds using its parent's Cloud Foundry project.…

NVIDIA has created a new branch of their proprietary Linux graphics driver. This new driver is for the "long-lived" series. The purpose of this series is to provide just bug-fixes and other minor updates for non-legacy hardware. In other words, like their legacy drivers where they just receive minor updates, but for those just wanting these fixes for newer hardware while not exposing any new functionality...

Intel announced a series of 25-nanometer, multi-level cell (MLC) solid state drive (SSD) chips aimed at enterprise data centers as well as embedded applications. The Intel SSD 710 Series is available in 100GB, 200GB, and 300GB capacities, and offers roughly the same endurance as standard SLC-based NAND SSDs, but with more than 30 times the write endurance of Intel's current MLC SSDs, claims Intel....

The debate that started back up again this week at XDC2011 Chicago about merging drivers back into the X.Org Server has now moved online. Jesse Barnes has published the pros / cons that were mentioned at the X.Org Developers' Conference this week to the X.Org development mailing list for developers to now debate the idea online. This has been a hotly disputed matter for the past two years...

Google purchased 1,023 patents from IBM to help it fight back in the patent wars. Meanwhile, an analyst says Motorola Mobility blackmailed Google into paying a high price for the company, Samsung and Apple trade Galaxy Pad-related lawsuits in France and Japan, respectively, and analysts debate which company had the most to gain in this week's Android pact between Google and Intel....

Do you have a Facebook page? If you do, you are among the 600 million users who actively use the social-networking service. I'll admit I initially resisted the temptation to join Facebook. After all, I've got e-mail, instant messaging and VoIP. What do I need with yet another form of communication? Eventually, temptation got the better of me, and I gave it a try. For the record, I also experimented with MySpace and Twitter, but those sites just didn't seem to do anything for me. These days, every time I go to my computer, I check my servers, my e-mail and my Facebook.

How to get your software sold Canonical has set up a site to help developers package and sell the code they produce. The site is designed to help to popularize the operating system, encourage new popular apps, and create more commission revenue for the open source organization.…

Axiomtek announced a rugged, DIN-rail industrial computer with power isolation features and ruggedization protection against ingress, shock, vibration, and temperature. The fanless rBOX101 is equipped with Intel Atom Z510PT (1.1GHz) or Z520PT (1.33GHz) processors, magnetically isolated 10/100/1000 and 10/100 Ethernet ports, dual USB 2.0 ports, and either four (rBOX101-4COM model), or six (rBOX101-6COM) isolated COM ports, according to the company....

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: Much work done on Plasma/Active, including homescreen loading, AppletContainer and activity switching optimization. Dolphin gets a Bazaar version control plugin. Kst now supports scripting. Line modification system added in Kate. Skrooge gets a copy menu for cells. Owncloud has an initial implementation of password reset and calendar updates. There are optimizations in Public Transport and Calligra. Network Management sorts connections by type and then by activation state. libqapt supports APT MultiArch. Calligra gets bugfixes, mostly in support of file formats. Read the rest of the Digest here. read more

Red-headed penguin stepchild Cinderella Comment Intel has jumped into bed with Google, but the palpable excitement emanating from both companies seems incongruous - as it signals doom for the chip giant's child from its previous marriage of convenience, MeeGo.…

Tom Stellard, the former Google Summer of Code student who worked on R300 GLSL improvements and a new register allocator, is now working for AMD and his work is focused on bringing up open-source OpenCL / GPGPU support in the Radeon Linux driver...

Microsoft rolls 'cloud-based operating system' Preview "The cloud is a tectonic shift," said Microsoft's corporate vice president of server and cloud Bill Laing, introducing an in-depth press preview of Windows Server 8 and mixing metaphors with abandon.…

First, a disclaimer: the program Sickbeard was created for the purpose of pirating television shows from Usenet and torrent sites. I don't condone piracy of any sort, but Sickbeard has some amazing other features that make it worth mentioning.

Would you like to touch my operating system? BUILD Steven Sinofsky has touted Windows 8 as one Microsoft's most significant redesigns since the arrival of Windows 95 more than 15 years ago.…

It's time for Fedora contributors to go crazy again... a.k.a. Red Hat is looking for codename proposals for Fedora 17, which will be their first community Linux release in 2012 to succeed the soon-to-be-released Fedora 16. Here's some of the names that have been proposed thus far...