At Mobile World Congress, Verizon Wireless and mobile VoIP leader Skype announce they've teamed up on a mobile application for smartphones that will be available in March.
<b>Engadget:</b> "the Taiwanese phone manufacturer just filed a complaint with the International Trade Commission, asking for importation and sales of the iPhone, iPad, and iPod be halted due to alleged infringement of five patents."
<b>Desktop Linux Reviews:</b> "The .iso file of Puppy Linux 5.0 weighs in at an incredibly petite 128 MB. It's much, much smaller than all of the usual desktop heavyweight distros. But don't let its small size fool you, Puppy Linux 5.0 is anything but an also-ran in terms of functionality and usability."
<b>Ghacks:</b> "Recently (in my Pardus Linux article) Ghacks reader PeterB mentioned one of his favorite distributions Greenie Linux. Of course I had to give this a whirl and see what it was all about."
Google App Engine and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are both very good platforms for writing and deploying scalable applications in the cloud, but they present different sets of challenges for developers.
<b>Stop:</b> "One of the solutions Assinform proposes to fight the crisis is what you may call a "cash for software clunkers" program: state-financed discounts for all companies that replace with newer applications obsolete software that isn't working well anymore."
A physician accidentally revealed the sensitive personal information of several hundred patients in the latest potential IT security breach to hit the medical field.
<b>jd:/dev/blog:</b> "Two years ago, while working on awesome, I joined the Freedesktop initiative to work on XCB. I had to learn the arcane of the X11 protocol and all the mysterious and old world that goes with it."
<b>The H Open:</b> "The most important development in this release is the shift from booting with the traditional System V init scheme to the newer Upstart system."
<b>My GNU/Linux:</B> "If you have problems in understanding the substance of Free Software, read the following dialogue between Socrates and Antiphon "
Want to sell more products? Of course you do. Adding search engine optimized video to your e-commerce site can raise both your Google ranking and your bottom line.
The glass-topped desk -- which has stymied optical and laser mice for years -- has been conquered at last by Logitech's ultimate tracking technology. The annoyance of needing separate USB receivers for your cordless mouse and keyboard is history, too.
<b>Datamation:</b> "Microsoft has only recently begun delivering its so-called "choice screen" for browser selection to consumers in Europe, but it's apparently already producing the hoped for effect, at least for one small browser maker."
WPF data templates let you determine the pieces a repetitive control uses to display its items. Learn some unique and interesting ways to use data templates for displaying the items in ListBoxes, ComboBoxes, and ListViews.
May's "Patch Tuesday" drop will be relatively painless, with only two "critical" patches to deal with. But why isn't last week's SharePoint flaw being addressed?
<b>Network World: </b>"Talend is an open source data integration company that is a poster child for successful open source business models. In just a few short years they have risen to be one of the up and coming stars in a 13b dollar market."
<b>The H Open:</b> "Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like Emacs. Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like Emacs."