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SpaceX’s Dragon capsule will today attempt to dock with the International Space Station. If everything goes as planned, SpaceX would become the first private company to ever complete such a feat. The docking manuevers have already started — the Dragon is currently some 350 meters from the ISS — and the ISS’ robotic arm is expected to grab hold of … Read More

If the U.K. is any indication, then Samsung Electronics’ Galaxy S III may be even more successful than its predecessors. The Galaxy S III has already smashed preorder records at Vodafone and retail chain Carphone Warehouse, according to the Inquirer. That includes orders for the previous iteration of Samsung’s flagship line, the Galaxy S II. Full story

If you’re new or relatively new to Linux, you may be looking around for good Linux resources and perhaps some tutorials. Whether you’re new to Linux or looking to become a more advanced user, there are a lot of free online books and tutorials that can give you guidance. In this post, you’ll find our updated collection of many good … Read More

Google Chrome has beaten Microsoft’s Internet Explorer as the most popular web browser worldwide, for the first time. According to the latest stats from StatCounter Chrome now leads the web browser market with 32.76 percent share, while IE dipped to 31.94 percent. Google funded Mozilla Firefox has also declined a bit and now sits at 25.47% market share. Full story

In the world of Linux there’s plenty of choices to choose from, whether it be distribution or desktop environments (KDE, Gnome2, Gnome 3, XFCE) but then there are those who would like a new distro with an older desktop environment. SolusOS is a Debian “Stable” based distribution that uses GNOME 2 as its desktop environment. Currently SolusOS is only available … Read More

French firm Ordissimo is bringing “the world’s simplest laptop” to the UK, a small family of Linux-based computers aimed at the population of holdouts who find conventional PCs and the online world that comes with it too complex to bother with. That means older users – Ordissimo reckons they will be over the age of 50 – and perhaps the … Read More

The Partner Network for the Vivaldi tablet as well as other compatible devices has been introduced by KDE. Before we proceed, here is a little bit of additional information concerning the Vivaldi tablet – this 7″ tablet will run off an ARM-based processor, where it will further slash the cost of ownership by using an open source operating system that … Read More

Older news but certainly worth a mention! The Millennium Technology Prize is the largest technology prize in the world and it is awarded once every two years by Technology Academy Finland. The Awarded is given for life-enhancing technological innovation. Linux kernel creator Linus Torvalds and Dr. Shinya Yamanaka won the Millennium Technology Prize, the prominent award for technological innovation for … Read More

Given time and the efforts of some very bright and altruistic people, an open source solution can be highly competitive. The good news for Sugar and its customers is that they have been down the curve with their open source solution. As open source rises in prominence, established players face painful changes, but for new entrants like Sugar, there is … Read More

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), probably the most popular product from Linux specialists Red Hat, is now ten years old. To mark this anniversary, the company has released a timeline that lists the most important milestones in the development of Red Hat and RHEL. Full story

The Apache Software Foundation has declared the first quarter of 2012 a quarter of “unprecedented growth” – it now has 104 current top-level projects (TLP) and 51 projects in the incubator, the largest number for either count. Jim Jagielski, the ASF’s president, said the “success can be attributed to Apache’s longstanding commitment to providing exceptional Open Source products, each with … Read More

Zero is the Apple of electric motorcycles. The Santa Cruz, Calif.,-based company’s bikes coast out of the factory in gleaming perfection with control software that has been optimized for safety and performance. And, as with iPhones, the source code remains a company secret. Gearheads who like to know every detail of how their machines work or want to modify them … Read More

Microsoft has announced the creation of a wholly owned subsidiary of the company, called Microsoft Open Technologies. Jean Paoli, who is currently General Manager of Interoperability Strategy at Microsoft and is one of the co-creators of the XML standard, will be leading the new company. The new group will comprise fifty to seventy-five employees from Paoli’s current team at Microsoft. … Read More

OpenStack, the open source cloud software developing organisation, has announced that nineteen companies have signed a “Framework acknowledgement Letter” marking the start of the legal creation of an OpenStack Foundation. With the move to the foundation-based governance model, both Red Hat and IBM have now joined OpenStack and will be joining the Foundation as “Platinum” members. Full story

Following its record annual revenue of more than one billion dollars, Red Hat has announced that it is making a donation of $100,000 (£62,400) to “the future of open source”. In a post on Red Hat’s opensource.com community site, President and CEO Jim Whitehurst says that the “billion dollar milestone is not only a win for Red Hat – it … Read More