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  • Mozilla 'cloud' code editor breaks with Lando Calrissian

    Skywriter goes Javascript

    Mozilla's Bespin project ? an open source effort to build a web-based code editor ? has been rechristened Skywriter, and its official repository has been moved to GitHub so that developers can more easily fork the project.?



  • 119 iPad apps for admins, coders, and geeks

    Stuff for web monkeys, iPad junkies, EE flunkies

    Part three This ? the third installment of apps for admins, coders and geeks ? is our final foray into demonstrably useful apps for Apple's "magical and revolutionary" tablet.?



  • MS probes mystery IE bug

    URL shortening shenanigans

    Microsoft is investigating reports of a new bug in Internet Explorer.?



  • 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.?



  • 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 if it's not Adobe Flash? Are you still forbidden??



  • 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.?



  • 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.?



  • 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.?



  • 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.?



  • 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.?