Softpedia
 

NEWS CATEGORIES:



NEWS ARCHIVE >>
SOFTPEDIA REVIEWS >>
MEET THE EDITORS >>
Home > News > Tags > community

Stories about: community


Mandriva Linux Is In Your Hands Now

Jean-Manuel Croset, CEO of Mandriva SA, announced last evening, May 17th, in a blog post, that the company decided to cease the Mandriva Linux operating system and transfer the responsibility to an independent entity. "Dear users, friends, fans and supporters of the Mandriva Linux distribution, after reviewing all ...

18 May 2012
09:25 GMT

Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit Tomorrow in San Francisco

The 6th Annual Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit will be held this year in San Francisco, California, at Hotel Nikko, on April 5th. For those of us who are not privy to exclusive information, The Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit is an exclusive, invitation-only summit gathering core kernel developers, dist...

4 April 2012
08:46 GMT

Indiana LinuxFest to Be Held in April

The second annual Indiana LinuxFest is about to start at the middle of April, and will bring, as the organizers like to say it, the "reign of freedom." Indiana LinuxFest will be held this year in the The Wyndham Indianapolis West Hotel, in the weekend of April 13-15, 2012. There will be a number of important spe...

3 April 2012
10:26 GMT

Fedora 18 Name Selection Started

Robyn Bergeron, the recent appointed leader of the Fedora Project, has announced that users are now asked to propose names for the next edition of Fedora, after the launch of Fedora 17 “Beefy Miracle”. As names go, the proposals from the Fedora community have always been weird. In any case, name submissio...

20 March 2012
11:23 GMT

Mojang Aims for Solid and Friendly Community for Scrolls

Scrolls, the next project from Mojang, will be a card-based collectible game adapted to the rigors of the Internet space and one of the most interesting aspects is that it will offer competitive multiplayer, allowing gamers to face off against one another. Jakob Porser, one of the founders of Mojang and the closest ...

2 March 2012
21:11 GMT

Killing Floor Sells More than 1 Million PC Copies

Video game developer Tripwire Interactive has announced that Killing Floor, their zombie-based shooter, has managed to get more than 1 million copies sold on the PC close to the two and a half launch anniversary date. The developers have also announced that close to 2 million downloadable content packs for the game...

15 February 2012
13:01 GMT

EPA Backs Urban Water Preservation Projects

The US Environmental Protection Agency is keen on improving the lives of people living in the US, since it is highly concerned about the current situation of urban waters in this country. Through its Urban Waters program, the organization will put $1.8m (€1.3m) on the table for the development of projects meant...

8 December 2011
05:36 GMT

Diablo III Community Website Now Available

Blizzard has released a brand new gathering place for fans of its Diablo role-playing franchise, as the company launched the official Diablo III community website. Diablo III is the next big project from Blizzard, as the company has worked on the new-generation role-playing dungeon crawler for quite some time, pro...

25 August 2011
18:11 GMT

Reddit Makes First Acquisition, Buys Its Own Community's Project

Not quite the resounding acquisition someone might be expecting, but Reddit indeed made its first move on another business. The company bought redditgifts.com, a Secret Santa project started by two of its own users after a community discussion.RedditGifts started back in 2009, after public talks on Reddit requested a...

24 August 2011
10:39 GMT

Mozilla's Unilateral Decision to Remove Firefox Version Stirs Up the Community

Mozilla is considering getting rid of version numbers for Firefox, at least as far as what users see is concerned. This is an outcome of the fast development cycle Mozilla has adopted, which sees a new Firefox come out every six weeks. But not everyone, most people actually, agrees with the trend. One thing in par...

23 August 2011
01:51 GMT

Valve Appreciates Hardcore DOTA community

Video game developer Valve is getting ready to unveil Defense of the Ancients 2 at the Gamescom event in Germany and a lot of the potential success for the arena battle game will be linked to how the tight knitted community that has formed around the game will reach to it.And Erik Johnson, the man who is leading the ...

12 August 2011
14:31 GMT

Peter Moore Says Madden and FIFA Will See More Community Involvement

EA Sports is one of the biggest moneymakers in the world of video games, the home of such huge franchises like FIFA and Madden NFL, but the division faces significant challenges going forward, including the possibility of no football and basketball seasons in the coming year.Peter Moore, the outspoken executive at El...

17 June 2011
04:30 GMT

Forrst One Year Anniversary Numbers, Forrst.me Goes Beta

One year after it went online in January 2010, Forrst, an invitation-only design community has grown spectacularly, posting very good numbers for a niche start-up.Launched a few months after Dribbble, the two established themselves as the main front runners when it came to high-end closed design communities.Right now...

3 February 2011
13:32 GMT

The Reason Religion Makes People Happy

There is a long-known relationship between religion and life satisfaction, but that 'secret ingredient' that makes religious people happy, has just been revealed in the December issue of the American Sociological Review.The findings of the study can be applied to the three main Christian traditions in the U...

7 December 2010
10:09 GMT

Dribbble, the Web-Design Community Hall of Fame

The design community has seen a huge expansion in recent years with thousands of blogs or community sites trying to copy or imitate the success of more successful ventures like CSS Globe, Smashing Magazine, Wired, MIX Online, Tuts+, Designer Depot or Noupe. Recent blog posts and articles show a trend in the web-des...

12 April 2010
11:06 GMT

Immunet Launches Free Cloud-Based Antivirus

A recent study has shown that modern antivirus pieces of software successfully protect computers in less that 50% of virus attacks. This concept is what has pushed industry veterans like Oliver Friedrichs (former Director at Symantec) and Alfred Huger (former McAfee and Symantec executive) to form a new company that ...

20 August 2009
08:59 GMT

MacHEADS Documentary Leaked on BitTorrent Sites

Recently released to the public, MacHEADS is a documentary which "explores what makes Apple products a 'cultural phenomenon', rather than just consumer electronics." While many don't understand how one can fall in love with electronics and make an obsession for the company creating them, the documentar...

9 February 2009
06:48 GMT

Indonesian Community Unaffected by the Economic Crisis

In these times of economic turmoil, there are still people who are completely unaffected by the market price drop and soaring gasoline prices. The Baduy population, living only a few miles of Indonesia's capital city of Jakarta, is an example of such a group. Their life style is archaic, to say the least, and th...

28 November 2008
03:34 GMT

Intel and ASUS Team Up, Launch WePC.com

Intel and ASUS have just announced the launch of the WePC.com, a website set up by the two companies for computer users who feel that their own PCs don't actually come to meet their specific requirements. The website is now online, and consumers can collaborate amongst each other and with the two companies to br...

30 October 2008
06:50 GMT

DanceDanceRevolution Gets Portal

You might get a little shocked, like I am, when you hear that Konami's DanceDanceRevolution franchise is already ten years old! And, in order to have a proper celebration for the first decade of quality dancing, the game's developer and publisher decided to launch a new brand and community portal for DanceD...

18 June 2008
15:06 GMT

OLPC Calms Down the Open-Source Developer Community

The One Laptop Per Child charity organization led by Nicholas Negroponte seemed to have terminated its business with Linux in favor of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system. The move raised waves of protests among open source developers, and the very purpose of the organization was questioned. The large number...

7 May 2008
06:31 GMT

The Future of On-line Gaming Might Be in China

A recent study details the way in which the Chinese on-line game market is developing and provides a few very interesting numbers regarding money spent on games. The highlight of the Pearl Research study is the statement that in 2010, the Chinese on-line game market will be worth 3 billion dollars.The Chinese market ...

20 March 2008
07:41 GMT

Nokia Supports New Green Online Community and Offers Free Handsets

Nokia extends its green preoccupations by supporting connect2earth, a new green online community launched by WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature) and IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature), two of the world's largest environmental organizations. The new community, accessible at this address, allows yo...

4 March 2008
03:40 GMT

Sharing Time from Google

It still is the season to be jolly and the Googlers everywhere decided to act on it and give something back to the communities they are a part of. Christmas was the first of the official holidays and as such it was the first to be greeted by the engineers with the will and desire to help others, be it that they helpe...

27 December 2007
02:41 GMT

YouTube's Official Authorities: The Users!

We all know that YouTube wants to establish a powerful connection between the company's employees and the users of the service and it often managed to do that through the features of the video sharing technology. But what YouTube is trying to do deserves our applause: the 'YouTube Community Council' i...

6 November 2007
14:31 GMT

EA Admits Plot Inconsistencies in C&C Series

Fans are not something to be treated lightly and EA seemed to have discovered this finally, as they admitted through Mike Verdu, Executive Producer for Command and Conquer 3, the inconsistencies in the C&C universe and especially the one related to their latest title."We've watched debates about the Tiberium fic...

31 July 2007
03:57 GMT

Nokia Brings Launchpad Community

Nokia will bring new solutions for mobile application development companies with the help of the Launchpad community. This delivers targeted technology advantages to all companies that develop applications for Nokia platforms.Launchpad mobile software developer brings easy access to the resources that are needed for ...

28 June 2007
11:05 GMT

YouTube's Suspended Accounts

YouTube is more than a video service because it owns an incredible community of members with millions of clips uploaded every day. Recently, the Google product announced its decision to hire one of the most active members of the community, making him YouTube's Community Advocate. Recently, there were several cas...

10 April 2007
08:38 GMT


WindowsGamesDriversMacLinuxScriptsMobileHandheldNews

SUBMIT PROGRAM   |   ADVERTISE   |   GET HELP   |   SEND US FEEDBACK   |   RSS FEEDS   |   UPDATE YOUR SOFTWARE   |   ROMANIAN FORUM