ARM Q3 Beats Forecasts; Profit Up 22 Percent, Outlook Up

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October 23, 2012

The darling of the U.K. technology industry ARM reported a significant rise in profit, thanks to a “record backlog” of orders. The firm’s outlook is looking healthier than ever.

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New 32-Bit Arduino Board Set to Fuel Next-Gen Open Source Hardware

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October 23, 2012

Have you found some time to do any tinkering with Arduino? It’s an open source electronics platform based on a microcontroller and microprocessor with I/O capabilities that allow it to drive many kinds of surprising inventions. We’ve covered the platform and the community that creates with it before. And now, the Arduino Due has arrived. It’s a major upgrade to the 8-bit, 16-MHz microcontroller platform that now offers a 32-bit, 84-MHz processor. Look for a wave of new Arduino inventions based on it.

Green Island: A New Qt-Based Wayland Compositor

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October 23, 2012

Less than one day after the official release of Wayland 1.0 there is a new Wayland compositor that emerges. This new compositor for Wayland is dubbed “Green Island” and leverages Qt, QtQuick, and QML for creating a new and unique Linux desktop experience…

Valve To Speak Next Week At Ubuntu Summit

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October 23, 2012

A software engineer from Valve will be speaking next week in Copenhagen about the Valve Linux efforts during the Ubuntu Developer Summit…

First GNOME 3.6 Update Released

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October 23, 2012

GNOME 3.6.1 brings with it a variety of minor changes, improvements and translation updates. The developers have already started work on version 3.8 and proposed features such as automatic extension updates.

Samsung, LG to Launch 1080p Phones Next Year, Report Says

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CNET

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October 23, 2012

A Korean publication says both companies will launch phones with a higher pixel density than the iPhone 5’s Retina Display. [Read more]

FOSS’ Fight Against China’s Free-as-in-Pirated Syndrome

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October 23, 2012

The tide of software piracy in China may be ebbing. With the clear support of the Chinese government, several software organizations and computer firms based in Europe and the U.S. are conducting events focusing on growing open source in China. The push toward China’s active participation in the open source community signals a maturing of the country’s computing infrastructure. That, in turn, may generate a more trusting partnership with China’s IT resources.

Mono 3.0 Facilitates Asynchronous Programming

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October 23, 2012

After eighteen months of development, Mono 3.0 represents a new stable release of the open source .NET implementation. It adds a C# 5.0 compiler and a range of Microsoft open source technologies.

Tablet wars! Google’s Nexus 10 Could Break the 300 PPI Barrier

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ZDNet

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October 23, 2012

Apple’s rumored to release an iPad mini today. Microsoft’s Surface RT ships on Friday. Does Google have an uber-tablet waiting in the wings that will trump both of them? Rumors point to yes.

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Redis 2.6.0 Released with Lua Scripting Support

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October 23, 2012

Version 2.6 of the key-value store is now available and includes support for Lua scripting and millisecond expiry resolution, as well as other important changes