Saturday, April 5th, 2008

Time	Event
1:40p	New improved Windows Mobile Browser 00:37 05.04.2008 New improved Windows Mobile Browser "During our brief hands on with the Skyfire Mobile browser at C[i]ITA, it actually lived up to most of its claims, and we walked away fairly impressed. We saw it on two different devices, though most of our time was on a Sprint HTC Mogul. Besides rendering media-heavy Giz with surprising snap (a feat that made the Instinct's browser cry), it churned out YouTube and Hulu videos like a champ. Zooming... read more at Pocket PC Addict rss2lj (Comment on this)
10:22p	KDE 4.0.3 Released KDE 4.0.3 Released KDE 4.0.3 has been released. "The KDE Community today announced the immediate availability of KDE 4.0.3, the third bugfix and maintenance release for the latest generation of the most advanced and powerful free desktop. KDE 4.0.3 comes with an impressive amount of bugfixes and improvements. Most of them are recorded in the changelog. KDE continues to release updates for the 4.0 desktop on a monthly basis. KDE 4.1, which will bring large improvements to the KDE desktop and application will be released in July this year." read more at OSNews rss2lj (Comment on this)
10:22p	SkyOS Build 6915 Released SkyOS Build 6915 Released The SkyOS team has released build 6915. "This build features the complete new software store as well as the new viewer supporting location favorites and a query panel. Additionally the new C++ API got a lot of new features like Job support, HTTP download, etc. Just take a loot at this video to see the new features in action." read more at OSNews rss2lj (Comment on this)
10:22p	Qt v4.4 Release Candidate Released Qt v4.4 Release Candidate Released A first release candidate of version 4.4 of Qt, the cross-platform C++ development toolkit, was released today. Thiago Macieira says that this is considered release quality and good enough to use for most tasks. Major new features include support for Windows CE, a WebKit-based HTML rendering module (WebKit is based on KHTML and used in Safari), a Phonon-based multimedia module, XQuery 1.0 (and thus XPath 2.0) support in XML, a concurrency framework allowing multi-threading without the mutexes needed previously, and a new help system. Downloads are available (source, Windows and Mac installers) from Trolltech. read more at OSNews rss2lj (Comment on this)
10:22p	Firefox 3 Beta 5 Released Firefox 3 Beta 5 Released The fifth beta of Firefox has been released. "Mozilla Firefox 3 Beta 5 has been released for testing. The fifth beta of the next major Firefox version offers over 750 bug fixes over Beta 4, including improvements in user interface, location bar autocomplete, bookmark backup and restore, full page zoom and other new features based upon user feedback." read more at OSNews rss2lj (Comment on this)
10:22p	'Linux Ignored, Not Immune,' Says Hacker Contest Sponsor 'Linux Ignored, Not Immune,' Says Hacker Contest Sponsor People shouldn't read anything into the fact that of the three laptops set up for last week's 'PWN to OWN' hack challenge, the only one left standing was running Linux, said the security expert who oversaw the contest. "There was just no interest in Ubuntu," said Terri Forslof, manager of security response at 3Com Corp.'s TippingPoint subsidiary, which put up the cash prizes awarded at the contest last week at CanSecWest. "A contest such as this is not a measure of relative security between operating systems. It's not an accurate barometer." read more at OSNews rss2lj (Comment on this)
10:22p	Computing in 2020: Erasing the Boundary Between Human & PC Computing in 2020: Erasing the Boundary Between Human & PC "It's easy to view the computer interface as nearly static. Since the advent of mouse-driven, windowed interfaces over 20 years ago, much of human-computer interface (HCI) has gone the same route. But a proliferation of mobile devices is beginning to change that and, even if that weren't the case, important differences are developing in what information is available to computers, and how we access it. In March 2007, Microsoft Research invited 45 leading researchers to discuss where HCI would be in 2020; a report summarizing their conclusions has now been made available." read more at OSNews rss2lj (Comment on this)
10:22p	Gentoo Linux 2008.0 Beta 1 Released Gentoo Linux 2008.0 Beta 1 Released The first beta of Gentoo Linux 2008.0 has been released. "You can help make 2008.0 amazing! Test out this beta and report any functionality issues you encounter. Since this is the first beta, we're looking only for bugs in functionality, not bugs in appearance such as desktop backgrounds or other artwork. We expect to release a second beta once your testing has helped us fix problems with this first beta. A migration to RPM was carefully considered again for this release, but in the end we decided to wait for the few remaining RPM-using distributions to migrate to the superior packaging format of ebuilds." read more at OSNews rss2lj (Comment on this)
10:22p	Slackware 12.1 RC1 Released Slackware 12.1 RC1 Released And Slackware too puts out a test release. Patrick writes in the changelog: "OK, we're going to call this Slackware 12.1-rc1, though there is still some more minor work to do." So there. Just so you know. read more at OSNews rss2lj (Comment on this)
10:22p	The GNUstep Live CD 1.6 Released The GNUstep Live CD 1.6 Released The releases just keep on coming, don't they? The GNUstep live CD has been updated "The GNUstep live CD contains a lot of software for GNUstep, a free implementation of the OPENSTEP framework (which was also the base as Cocoa in Mac OS X)." The GNUstep page can tell you more about GNUstep itself. read more at OSNews rss2lj (Comment on this)
10:22p	dwm 4.9 Released dwm 4.9 Released "dwm is a dynamic window manager for X. It manages windows in tiled and floating layouts. Either layout can be applied dynamically, optimizing the environment for the application in use and the task performed. It is the little brother of wmii." And version 4.9 has been released. read more at OSNews rss2lj (Comment on this)
10:22p	Microsoft Windows XP Dies June 30, As Planned Microsoft Windows XP Dies June 30, As Planned Microsoft will shutter its Windows XP line June 30, as planned, ceasing sales of Windows XP Professional and Windows XP Home to retailers and direct OEMs, Microsoft confirmed to eWEEK April 3. The statement from Redmond executives ends weeks of speculation that Microsoft would extend the life of the operating system as users turn up their nose at Vista, the operating system meant to supplant XP, and OEMs argue lighter versions of desktops and notebooks don't have the juice to run Vista. read more at OSNews rss2lj (Comment on this)
10:22p	GoboLinux 014.01 Released GoboLinux 014.01 Released GoboLinux 014.01 has been released. "We are pleased to introduce GoboLinux 014.01, the new release of GoboLinux, the Linux distribution featuring a rethought file system structure. This release is our first 'point release', providing a stability update for our latest major release, GoboLinux 014, which was released three months ago." read more at OSNews rss2lj (Comment on this)
10:22p	Photoshop, Lightroom, and Adobe's 64-bit Roadmap Photoshop, Lightroom, and Adobe's 64-bit Roadmap From John Nack's blog: "In the interest of giving customers guidance as early as possible, we have some news to share on this point: in addition to offering 32-bit-native versions for Mac OS X and 32-bit Windows, just as we do today, we plan to ship the next version of Photoshop as 64-bit-native for Windows 64-bit OSes only." read more at OSNews rss2lj (Comment on this)
10:22p	Interview: Why Nick White Left Microsoft Interview: Why Nick White Left Microsoft "Earlier this week Nick White, Product Manager for Windows Vista and blogger at WindowsVistaBlog, announced that he was leaving Microsoft. We previously interviewed Nick about what SP1 for Vista was all about, so we sat down with him yesterday to get the details behind his departure, his proudest moments at Microsoft, a few regrettable moments, and more." read more at OSNews rss2lj (Comment on this)
10:22p	Gates: Microsoft Windows 7 Sometime Next Year Gates: Microsoft Windows 7 Sometime Next Year Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said on Friday he expected the new version of Windows operating software, code-named Windows 7, to be released "sometime in the next year or so". The software giant has been aiming to issue more regular updates of the operating system software that powers the majority of the world's personal computers. Nevertheless, Gates' comments suggested that a successor to the Vista program might be released sooner than was generally expected. read more at OSNews rss2lj (Comment on this)

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