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Ubuntu 'Maverick Meerkat' erects own App Store
Beta mongoose flaunts new face
Review Ubuntu fans, fire up your virtual machines. The beta release of Ubuntu 10.10 is here. Maverick Meerkat, as this release is known, is actually several weeks ahead of the original schedule, and that means Ubuntu 10.10 is on track for its final release October 10.?
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Unity ? iPhone code swap approved by Jobs (for now)
Un-Flash eyes world of Google
Steve Jobs forbids you from building iPhone applications with a language other than Objective C, C, or C++. If that other language is Adobe Flash. What about if it's not Adobe Flash? Are you still forbidden??
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Gordon Brown joins World Wide Web Foundation
That's Doctor Brown to you, says unemployed PM
Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown has buddied up with the Greatest Living Briton by becoming a director of the World Wide Web Foundation.?
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Paul Allen's patent madness not worth single penny
Execution wins. Not ideas
Open...and Shut Businesses aren't built on ideas. They're built on execution. Google didn't win because it was the first to the search market. It won because it did search better than anyone else, and devised an ingenious way to monetize it.?
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Google Wave washes ashore in soggy cardboard Box
Drops unwanted code in open source developer laps
Google has boxed up its unsuccessful Wave project and handed the unwanted code to open source developers.?
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Apple Ping unfriends meanie Facebook
Snazzy new social thing walled off
Ping, Apple's latest foray into social networking, won't play nice with Facebook - despite the connection appearing in Steve Jobs's on-stage demonstration and in the documentation.?
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Ubuntu 10.10 released to beta
Maverick Meerkat skips Alpha 4
The beta instalment of Ubuntu's Maverick Meerkat has arrived slightly earlier than expected.?
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Chrome celebrates second b-day with sixth release
Remember the Googasm
Google is celebrating Chrome's second birthday by releasing a new stable version of its rapidly evolving browser, offering a slightly simpler user interface, an automatic form filler, and the ability to synchronize extensions and form data across machines.?
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Microsoft buffs Silverlight for HTML5 video contest
'We're more consistent. And we're here'
Microsoft has tried to justify its Silverlight media player in the age of HTML5.?
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Microsoft slings mud in VMware living room
Taunts estranged son
VMworld Microsoft's assault on VMware knows no bounds.?
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AOL goes soul-searching with Google in 5-year deal
Gets into mobile search (result), agrees to provide content to YouTube (not so much)
AOL has signed a deal with Google to make it the sole provider for paid text-based search and contextual ads on the company's US websites for the next five years.?
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Red Hat in talks to buy JBoss cloud fluffer Makara
Middleware union
Red Hat is in talks to buy a JBoss cloud provisioning startup called Makara, according to a source familiar with the matter.?
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SUSE Linux hitches ride on enemy hypervisor
Straddles vSphere in search of cash
VMworld Strange bedfellows VMware and Novell have officially released SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMware, a version of Novell's open source OS that piggybacks on every copy of VMware's vSphere hypervisor.?
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Apple goes social with musical Ping
Games, networking and music
Apple CEO Steve Jobs has unveiled the next two generations of iOS, updates that will bring multiplayer gaming and high-definition photography to iPhones, iPads and iPod Touches next week and wireless printing and media streaming in November.?
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VMware app dev platform gazes beyond SpringSource Java
Eyes Ruby, PHP, .NET
VMworld VMware says that its Cloud Application Platform ? a means of building and deploying applications that has grown up around the SpringSource Java framework ? will eventually embrace other programming languages, including Ruby-on-Rails, PHP, and perhaps .NET.?
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