HP’s decision means webOS could end up more open than Android
The ultimate fate of HP's webOS mobile platform was finally revealed today. The company has announced plans to contribute its operating system to the open source software community. The move will open the door for...
Gallery: how the surveillance industry markets spyware to governments
A collection of documents recently published by Wikileaks casts a light on surveillance vendors who sell intrusive monitoring technology to governments and law enforcement agencies. This growing industry—which serves co...
Gallery: how the surveillance industry markets spyware to governments
A collection of documents recently published by Wikileaks casts a light on surveillance vendors who sell intrusive monitoring technology to governments and law enforcement agencies. This growing industry—which serves co...
Mobile operator turns flagship store into Androidland
Australian mobile network operator Telstra has overhauled its flagship store in Melbourne, turning it into a miniature Android theme park just in time for the holidays. The new set of Android attractions and displays, which......
Startup launches a robot invasion with 3D printing and WebGL
The disruptive potential of 3D printing is considerable—it has implications across a wide range of fields and promises to be a game-changer for one-off manufacturing. A new startup called My Robot Nation has come up...
ARM’s new tools make it easier for Android devs to use native code
ARM has announced the launch of the ARM Development Studio 5 Community Edition, a suite of Eclipse-based tools that are designed to aid Android application developers who use the NDK to write native code. The tools will simplify...
The trials and tribulations of HTML video in the post-Flash era
Adobe reversed course on its Flash strategy after a recent round of layoffs and restructuring, concluding that HTML5 is the future of rich Internet content on mobile devices. Adobe now says it doesn’t intend to develop new ...
Leaping lizards: openSUSE 12.1 officially released
The developers behind the openSUSE project announced this week the availability of openSUSE 12.1, a major new version of the community-driven Linux distribution. After eight months in development, the new version brings so...
How Applidium reverse engineered Siri’s protocol
French mobile development company Applidium has reverse engineered the protocol that the iPhone 4S uses to communicate with Siri’s servers. Applidium’s developers have published a brief technical explanation of ...
Mozilla hatches plan to tackle memory leaks in Firefox add-ons
Mozilla began an aggressive campaign earlier this year to trim Firefox’s memory footprint with a new initiative called MemShrink. The first fruits of that effort landed in Firefox 7, which was released in September. As a r...
Adobe donates Flex to foundation in community-friendly exit strategy
Adobe and the Open Spoon Foundation are preparing to open up development of the Flex SDK. They plan to donate the technology to “an established open source foundation” so that the Flex community and other stakeholders...
