Feature: Hands-on: grooving on the go with impressive Google Music Beta
Google unveiled its new cloud-based music streaming service during a keynote presentation at the Google I/O conference earlier this month. The service allows users to upload their song library to Google's storage servers so that ...
Chrome 13 introduces experimental hidden nav bar option
The Google Chrome user interface has always followed a model of minimalism. The Chrome developers have sought to cut the cruft as much as possible to slim down the parts of the browser window that don't show...
Android vulnerability reflects need for more timely updates
Rice University professor Dan Wallach wrote a blog post in February that discussed the threat that network eavesdropping poses to Android users. Several applications, including the platform's native Google Calendar software, don'...
Movl reinvents poker night with set-top and mobile app
The Google TV platform hasn't gotten much love from consumers or content providers yet, but some developers are enthusiastic about the opportunities that it affords for bringing unique software experiences to the living room...
Feature: Riding the Narwhal: Ars reviews Unity in Ubuntu 11.04
Ubuntu 11.04, codenamed Natty Narwhal, rose from the depths last week. The update brings a number of significant new features to the Linux-based operating system. It includes a much-improved refresh of the Unity shell and a numb...
Feature: It’s unfinished, but we definitely want more: Ars reviews RIM’s PlayBook
RIM, the venerable business smartphone vendor, has entered the tablet market with the official launch of its BlackBerry PlayBook. The seven-inch slate ships with a new operating system that pairs the QNX kernel with a custom user...
Ubuntu 11.04 released, a Natty Narwhal rises from the depths
Canonical has announced the official release of Ubuntu 11.04, codenamed Natty Narwhal. This major update introduces the new Unity desktop shell, which is designed to improve ease of use and deliver a more modern user experience.
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Out of the box: first look at the BlackBerry Playbook
RIM launches its new BlackBerry Playbook tablet this week. The 7-inch device runs the QNX operating system and is designed to tether with a BlackBerry handset. We received our review unit from RIM on Tuesday...
Oracle gives up on OpenOffice after community forks the project
In a statement issued on Friday, Oracle announced that it intends to discontinue commercial development of the OpenOffice.org (OOo) office suite. The move comes several months after key members of the OOo community and a...
The rationale for Ceylon, Red Hat’s new programming language
Red Hat engineer Gavin King, the creator of Hibernate, is developing a new programming language for enterprise software development. His team at Red Hat has apparently been working on the grammar in secrecy for two years and is f......
Ride the Firefox development wave with Aurora pre-release builds
Mozilla has announced the launch of Aurora, a new Firefox release channel that is intended to open up experimental Firefox features to a broader audience of testers. The Aurora channel will serve up a stream of Firefox builds tha......
Google acquisition of PushLife could teach Android to sing
Google is acquiring PushLife, a company that develops mobile media syncing software. The exact terms of the deal haven't been disclosed, but the acquisition is rumored to have cost Google $25 million. The move is significant beca...
