Kindle Fire now #1 Android tablet, Google control over Android ecosystem could lessen
Data published by comScore shows that Amazon's Kindle Fire has emerged as the dominant Android-based tablet. At the end of February, the Kindle Fire accounted for 54 percent of all Android tablets. The next most...
HTML5 bullets: innovative ClojureScript IDE, CSS filter effects, and more
The following is a roundup of some of the most interesting recent stories about HTML, JavaScript, and Web technology.
Light Table is a new IDE concept that developer Chris Granger built with Clojurescript, a lisp-like langu......
HTML5 bullets: innovative ClojureScript IDE, CSS filter effects, and more
The following is a roundup of some of the most interesting recent stories about HTML, JavaScript, and Web technology.
Light Table is a new IDE concept that developer Chris Granger built with Clojurescript, a lisp-like langu......
Android platform developer: five-month wait for OS update is "reasonable"
Sony recently updated its Tablet S product from Android 3 to Android 4. The latest version of Android, codenamed Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS), was released in November. According to Jean-Baptiste Queru, an Android platform engine......
Firefox 12 released with UAC-less update system on Windows
Mozilla announced today the availability of Firefox 12, a new version of the popular open source Web browser. The release brings some minor incremental feature improvements, a number of fixes under the hood, and a...
Original Apple II Prince of Persia source code published by creator
The source code of the classic Apple II game Prince of Persia has been published on GitHub by Jordan Mechner, the original author. The game, which was first published by Broderbund in 1989, was developed...
Android-powered car computers get software package from Intel’s Wind River
Wind River has announced a new software package for building Android-based automotive computing systems. The framework consists of several components, including a custom home screen interface that is tailored for cars, an FM ...
Twitter signs up to sponsor open source Apache Software Foundation
Twitter’s open source office announced today that it has become a sponsor of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). As a sponsor, the social networking company will contribute financial resources to the ASF to help suppo......
Feature: Hands-on: getting work done with Google’s new Aura interface for Chrome OS
Google attempted to introduce a new approach to computing when it first launched Chrome OS in 2010. The operating system consists of little more than a fullscreen Web browser perched atop...
Expert witness says most popular Hotfile downloads are open source apps
Hotfile is determined to outlast Hollywood’s ongoing crusade against file locker services. The company is defending itself against an aggressive litigation campaign that movie studios first brought against it over a yea...
Recent improvements mitigate Android emulator performance woes
Android application developers frequently complain about the poor performance emulator that is included in the platform’s SDK. The animated transitions and other graphically-intensive characteristics of the user interfa...
Iran plans to unplug the Internet, launch its own "clean" alternative
Iran topped a recent list of repressive regimes that most aggressively restrict Internet freedom. The list, published by Reporters Without Borders, is a part of the 2012 edition of the organization’s Enemies of the Inte......
