Mozilla evangelist: Apple HTML5 demos harm the open Web
Apple recently launched an HTML5 showcase on its official website with several demos that are intended to highlight some of the advanced Web development capabilities that are made available by emerging standards. The showcase has ...
Android fragmentation: something to fear?
Fragmentation is often cited as a major challenge for the Linux platform and mobile software ecosystem. The word gets thrown around a lot and tends to be used as a catch-all phrase to describe a wide range of loosely...
Google resolves WebM licensing conflict with BSD license
Google is adopting the BSD license for WebM in order to address a licensing conflict. When Google opened up the VP8 codec and announced the launch of the WebM project during the Google I/O conference last month, the actual...
Linaro nonprofit aims to fight ARM Linux fragmentation
A group of hardware companies have formed a new nonprofit organization called Linaro with the aim of funding collaborative mobile Linux development. The group is building a mobile technology stack that could potentially reduce the c...
MeeGo Linux platform gains allies at Computex
The Linux-based MeeGo mobile platform made a strong showing at the Computex conference this year in Taipei. The platform is attracting some interest from hardware makers and mobile Linux software vendors.
When we reviewed the...
Feature: The BeOS file system: an OS geek retrospective
The Be operating system file system, known simply as BFS, is the file system for the Haiku, BeOS, and SkyOS operating systems. When it was created in the late '90s as part of the ill-fated BeOS project, BFS's...
Google’s Chrome OS to arrive on hardware "later this fall"
Google vice president of product management Sundar Pichai announced that the company's browser-centric operating system will be released this fall. Chrome OS is built on top of the Ubuntu Linux distribution, but uses a completely cu...
Mozilla to weave sync features into next version of Firefox
Mozilla has announced plans to integrate cloud synchronization features into an upcoming major version of the Firefox Web browser. The functionality is based on Weave, an experimental add-on that was incubated in Mozilla Labs.
The ...
Internet Explorer best at losing, gaining market share
As of April, fewer than 6 out of 10 people use Internet Explorer. The browser trends that we've noted over the past several months are continuing...
OpenStreetMap: Crowd-sourcing the world, a street at a time
Wikipedia's "crowdsourced knowledge" model has created a spectacular resource, but everyone knows the big caveat: if the data's important, don't trust the online encyclopedia without verifying it first. So how...
Week in tech: Star Wars masters, Chrome 5, peak water, and more
Take some time during the holiday weekend to review the week's top stories:
Untouched is impossible: the story of Star Wars in film: Star Wars: A New Hope has been...
Hands-on: MeeGo for netbooks picks up where Moblin left off
Intel and Nokia joined forces earlier this year when they combined their mobile Linux operating systems to create MeeGo, an open source platform that is designed to support multiple...
