Citing relevance, Mozilla to include Bing in Firefox 4 search box
Mozilla has announced its plans to update the search options in Firefox 4, the next major version of the popular open source Web browser. Google will remain Firefox's default search engine, but Microsoft's Bing search will be ava...
Main MeeGo man resigns as Nokia preps for first MeeGo device
Ari Jaaksi, the vice president of Nokia's MeeGo unit, is moving on to other things. His resignation is an unfortunate loss for Nokia, but it's especially troubling at this time when the Finnish phone giant is working to deliver...
OLPC gets $5.6 million from Marvell to build Android tablet
The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) organization has received a $5.6 million grant from hardware component maker Marvell to fund the development of an Android-powered mobile tablet based on a Marvell reference design. The product, wh...
LG puts Android tablet on hold, says Froyo not suitable
LG had originally planned to launch an Android-based tablet device this year, but has decided to wait for a future version of the mobile operating system that is better suited for tablets. The company's decision further strengthe...
Google’s new VP8-based image format could replace JPEG
In an effort to speed up page loading, Google has introduced an experimental new image format called WebP. The format is intended to reduce the file size of lossy images without compromising the quality. Google's tests, which inv...
Strange bedfellows: EFF, Apache back Microsoft in patent dispute
Although building consensus position on patent reform proposals has proved difficult, practically every major stakeholder (except patent attorneys, of course) agrees that the US patent system is broken. As a result, patent proble...
Canonical announces Ubuntu One music streaming service
Canonical is preparing to augment its Ubuntu One cloud synchronization service with a new music streaming feature that will enable users to stream songs to their mobile phone from their Ubuntu One cloud storage account. During th...
As USPTO evaluates Bilski, Red Hat says end software patents
When the Supreme Court heard the Bilski case earlier this year, it ruled that the specific business method patent at issue in the case was invalid and contended that the patentability of intangible methods should be reduced but n......
Document Foundation forks OpenOffice.org, liberates it from Oracle
A group of key contributors to the OpenOffice.org (OOo) project have formed a new organization called the Document Foundation to manage a community-driven fork of the popular open source office suite. Their goal is to liberate th...
Iranian power plant infected by Stuxnet, allegedly undamaged
We reported last week about a malware threat known as Stuxnet that is designed to compromise industrial equipment. Due to the highly targeted nature of the Stuxnet worm and a large concentration of infections in Iran, analysts sp...
Oracle aims to boost client-side Java with JavaFX improvements
At the Oracle OpenWorld event, the database giant revealed some details about its Java roadmap. Oracle unsurprisingly wants to continue improving Java Enterprise Edition, but the company also highlighted its commitment to improvi...
Sony Ericsson goes Android, leaves Nokia as only big Symbian fan
A spokesperson for Sony Ericsson says that the company has no plans to build new Symbian-based smartphones. Much like Motorola, which restored its competitiveness by dropping Symbian and its own in-house Linux effort in favor of ...
