<b>Delimiter:</b> "Telstra today revealed it would launch its Linux-based T-Box integrated media centre set-top box from mid-June at a stand-alone price point of $299, with a sledload of free and pay-per-view content available and an associated revamp of its broadband plans in the works."
<b>MakeTechEasier:</b> "Inkscape is a powerful free vector drawing program for Windows, Linux, and Mac, and this guide will get you started with using it to create your own smooth, colorful, scalable graphics."
<b>Technology & Life Integration:</b> "There is a word in the English language (which I hope I am using) called context. In other words, I use the word Linux in the context of a complete Linux based distribution and believe that my readers understand that context."
In an effort to boost security across the Web, open source Mozilla extends its service for verifying plugins to competitors, though some questions remain.
Need specialized small business software but worried it won't work with your QuickBooks, Salesforce or other business platform? Laurie McCabe explains the benefits of app stores.
Network security can be a life or death proposition in a war zone. A new product provides secure wireless HD video in a walkie-talkie-sized device for just those scenarios.
Last month we discussed how to get data from Microsoft Access into Outlook objects, such as in the creation of new appointments, tasks, contacts and emails. This month we perform the reverse operation: get data out of Outlook into Microsoft Access.
<b>Developer.com: </b>"The open source R language has been in use by statisticians to do data analysis, predictive modeling and visualization for over a decade. This week, R is set to undergo a revolution of sorts with a revamped commercial effort."
<b>Law.com:</b> "MPEG LA, as we've told you here and here, is in the business of issuing licenses for pools of patents related to digital video technology. Companies that want to make consumer technology products can take a license from MPEG LA and not worry about being sued."
<b>StreamingMedia:</b> "VP8 is now free, but if the quality is substandard, who cares? Well, it turns out that the quality isn't substandard, so that's not an issue, but neither is it twice the quality of H.264 at half the bandwidth. See for yourself."
<b>Opensource.com:</b> "Interest in iPad app development is waning, and the device just got here. Maybe that means it's time to explore more open options. Here are five."
<b>The H Open:</b> "The development of Linux 2.6.34 has started and is causing heated discussions on the LKML. LWN.net has analysed Linux 2.6.32.9 for security fixes and found almost twenty of them. Linux-Libre removes proprietary files from the kernel, and new graphics drivers for Radeon cards offer numerous improvements."
<b>LinuxDevices:</b> "ChinaGrabber is selling an unlocked, quadband GSM cellphone that runs Linux on a 624MHz Marvell PXA310. The $570 BPhone features a 5-inch 800 x 480 touchscreen with 180-degree rotation, plus WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, and up to 16GB flash expansion."
<b>Linux Pro Magazine:</b> "Thus Canonical is implementing the cloud in its context. The DRM-free songs in MP3 format with a bitrate of at least 256 kbits/second are not loaded on the local machine, but in the Ubuntu One cloud."
Andrew Lock shares his ideas for designing a customer referral system, tips on webinars as a marketing tool plus a simple marketing strategy from Hertz that SMBs can employ.
Andrew Lock shares his ideas for designing a customer referral system, tips on webinars as a marketing tool plus a simple marketing strategy from Hertz that SMBs can employ.
<b>OS News: </b>"The [street-smart] people at MPEG-LA have made sure that from the moment we use a camera or camcorder to shoot an mpeg2 or h.264 video, we owe them royalties, even if the final video distributed was not encoded using their codecs."