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GNOME Shell, a user interface which provides functions for the GNOME 3 desktop environment, has just received a new update and it's now at version 3.3.5. As usual, versions from development branch of GNOME Shell come packed with a lot of updates and feature, and GNOME Shell 3.3.5 is now exception. Here are some ... |
9 February 2012
10:47 GMT |
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Mutter, a window and compositing manager that displays and manages your desktop via OpenGL, has reached version 3.3.5. Owen Taylor has announced that Mutter 3.3.5 was released and repaired a few problems and updates some translations.Highlight of Mutter 3.3.5:· MetaShapedTexture no longer is a ClutterTexture s... |
9 February 2012
10:45 GMT |
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The Document Foundation has chosen to make public the way LibreOffice is developed and to show how everything gets done with a piece of software so complex and which is more or less developed by the community. According to The Document Foundation, there are almost 400 developers. The reason for this disclosure is n... |
4 February 2012
02:11 GMT |
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The developer of indie hit Minecraft acknowledged the effects that the hit launch had on him and offered developers a new way of thinking about the indie scene.
Speaking to PC Gamer Markus Persson, aka Notch, stated, “I don’t think indie in the sense of how I used to work any more, because we have a payr... |
25 January 2012
05:26 GMT |
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Sony has shared some more details about the creation of the PlayStation Vita, its all-new handheld console, highlighting that the company’s internal game studios helped its hardware development team with vital feedback in order to make the mobile device easy to develop games for.
The PlayStation Vita is, at le... |
29 December 2011
12:31 GMT |
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2011 is ending, and whilst normal people are preparing for Christmas and New Year's Eve, JavaScript developers answered a suite of questions for DailyJS.com regarding the general state of JS development.Around 2800 professionals participated in this year's survey, and judging that DailyJS.com serves the mos... |
16 December 2011
12:11 GMT |
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The Windows Driver Kit (WDK) from Microsoft has reached version 7.1.0 and comes with a lot of nifty additions for those into driver development. The present driver kit is intended for making drivers suitable for Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008, and Windows Server 200... |
30 November 2011
03:26 GMT |
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Bitdefender recently released Bitdefender Antivirus Free Edition, a free product that targets the Romanian market, but which also encapsulates a few interesting and innovative technologies and philosophies. After Free Edition was launched, I had the opportunity to have a chat with Bitdefender’s Senior Produc... |
25 November 2011
13:01 GMT |
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Experts rely on numerical indicators to reveal the most important environmental changes recorded since 1992. They bring into discussion the role of 7 billion people in accelerating the climate change process by 2°C of warming, while putting in danger 13 million hectares of land every year.
These numbers reflect ... |
23 November 2011
09:51 GMT |
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The police are trying to solve a shocking case of animal cruelty, recorded in Indonesia, at a palm oil plantation located in Muara Kamam. An adult orangutan was tortured and killed and authorities are doing their best to find out who is responsible for this tragic incident.
They started the investigation by questio... |
17 November 2011
07:18 GMT |
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Richard Lemarchand, who is the co-lead designer working on Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception, the latest game from Naughty Dog, has told an audience at the Montreal International Game Summit that one of the big secrets for the success of the franchise has been that the developers were ready to inject a lot of emoti... |
2 November 2011
17:31 GMT |
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Video game publisher Ubisoft and twofour54 Abu Dhabi have announced that they have entered into an agreement to open a new Ubisoft development studio in the Gulf state, making it the first time that a major video game company creates a direct presence in the area of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the ... |
26 October 2011
08:10 GMT |
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The developers working at DICE on the upcoming first person shooter Battlefield 3 are saying that all the problems that players have seen during the beta stage have been solved for the launch version of the game.Speaking to Destructoid Lars Gustavsson, who is the creative director working on Battlefield 3, has said, ... |
17 October 2011
05:50 GMT |
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Dark Souls is a sequel to a tough game that promises even more punishment for gamers and at least one of the developers says that the game changed very much during the development process.Speaking to Gamasutra Kei Hirono, who is the producer working on the game at Namco Bandai, stated, “It's really nothing... |
3 October 2011
08:04 GMT |
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The creation of the upcoming Max Payne 3 might have cost Rockstar, its developer and publisher, around $105 million, at least according to Sterne Agee analyst Arvind Bhatia, who believes that the game needs to sell at least 4 million copies to break even.Max Payne 3 has been in development for quite some time, and th... |
13 September 2011
04:34 GMT |
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For the second time this year, Canonical, through David Planella, announced a few days ago that the Ubuntu App Developer Week event will take place between 5th to 9th September, 2011, on the Ubuntu IRC channel.Ubuntu App Developer Week was created to inspire developers of all ages, regardless of their skill level, to... |
22 August 2011
15:01 GMT |
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The relationship between L.A. Noire publisher Rockstar and its actual developer, Team Bondi, might be coming to an end in a big way, as a former staff member cites big arguments between the two companies and describes how Rockstar needed to pour lots of money and allocate its resources in order to see the game comple... |
6 July 2011
14:21 GMT |
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Video game hardware manufacturer and game publisher Sony has confirmed that it is working on a new version of its home console, which the public has traditionally called the PlayStation 4, although the company has not offered any details on what it will offer to players and has not talked about when it might be launc... |
27 May 2011
05:42 GMT |
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Web designers and developers would find it easier to come up with websites and web content courtesy of the latest flavor of Opera Mobile Emulator, released today.The web is moving towards the mobile space, and developers do need to test their websites and the web content they come up with to see how they would fit o... |
25 May 2011
17:01 GMT |
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Canonical, through Daniel Holbach, announced the schedule of this year's first Ubuntu Developer Week.The Ubuntu Developer Week event will take place from February 28th to March 4th, 2011, and will cover several aspects of Ubuntu development, from crash-courses in getting started with working on Ubuntu to more ad... |
15 February 2011
06:59 GMT |
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Security researchers from RSA have confirmed that the SpyEye author is working on a "super trojan" by merging features from ZeuS into his own creation, sometimes by copying entire chunks of code.When rumors first appeared last year that SpyEye and ZeuS will be merged together, after Slavik gave his source code to Har... |
9 February 2011
13:09 GMT |
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The source code of the infamous ZeuS banking trojan is being offered for sale on the underground market suggesting the malware might continue to be developed independently from SpyEye.Back at the end of October, rumors appeared that the ZeuS developer, Slavik, aka monstr, is retiring from the malware writing scene an... |
7 February 2011
00:31 GMT |
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Without a doubt, everyone's waiting for Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) in order to see just what an Android OS refined for tablet use can offer (and how well it can fare against iOS), and it seems that the wait will be really worth it, as the most recent preview of the open-source OS reveals. The new bits and pieces o... |
27 January 2011
02:40 GMT |
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Android mobile phone users should soon have the possibility to try out a new application on their devices, one that is already very popular among desktop users, namely the VLC Player.Apparently, the developing team behind the application is hard at work with the building of this application, and says that it would b... |
27 December 2010
08:34 GMT |
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A team of researchers from the University of Southampton are currently investigating whether detecting deafness in newborn babies would help future teenagers achieve better language skills.In the 1990s, the same team have been studying the development of a group of children whose deafness was detected at birth, withi... |
9 December 2010
09:42 GMT |
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Security researchers from Trend Micro claim that SpyEye's development was place on hold and that some of the trojan's features are being ported to the ZeuS crimeware.This means that previous suspicions according to which the two malware programs were going to be merged into one, were likely true.A month ago... |
25 November 2010
11:57 GMT |
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Japanese games publisher Marvelous Entertainment, the company behind franchises like Harvest Moon, has just revealed in an investor's call that the development costs for the future Nintendo 3DS handheld device will be much higher than for the regular DS.According to the Japanese company, the cost to make a game ... |
23 November 2010
15:51 GMT |
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Although Intel's mainly known as a silicon, hardware and platform manufacturer, the truth of the matter is that they're also extremely actively involved in software development, their latest move in this direction being the opening of a brand-new software research center in Bucharest, Romania.As the chip ma... |
9 November 2010
02:11 GMT |
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Wireless carrier China Mobile, the largest wireless services provided in the country, and also the largest in the world by number of subscribers, has just announced that it would join the Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization aimed at supporting the growth of Linux. The foundation already counts a number of a... |
4 November 2010
05:38 GMT |
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The Symbian Foundation has just announced that, under an initiative from the European Commission (EC), a total investment of over €22 million was received for the development of next generation technologies for the Symbian platform. According to the Foundation, it will lead the new development project, which is... |
2 November 2010
17:51 GMT |
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Redmond-based software giant Microsoft has just released updated Windows Phone 7 Application Certification Requirements, in an attempt to make things clearer, more efficient and more transparent for all application developers interested in the company's platform. The WP7 App Certification Requirements include a... |
30 October 2010
03:35 GMT |
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Sony Worldwide Studios European vice president, Michael Denny, has just revealed that thanks to the company's global reach and network, first-party developers are working together and are reaching the console's full potential.First-party developers are extremely important to any console, and Sony is really ... |
26 October 2010
14:21 GMT |
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There are signs on underground Internet forums suggesting that the development of the notorious ZeuS trojan has stopped and the code base will be merged with that of it's biggest rival, SpyEye.It seems that ZeuS, the most successful information stealing trojan to date and the weapon of choice for cyberfraudsters... |
25 October 2010
13:39 GMT |
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Japanese-Swedish mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson did say recently that it plans on coming to the market with handsets powered by Microsoft's new Windows Phone 7 operating system, but it seemed more like some distant idea, and not something that would materialize in the near future. However, it appears that the... |
30 September 2010
03:25 GMT |
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The latest version of Research In Motions's BlackBerry OS, namely the BlackBerry 6 platform, came to the market with a new Browser packed inside it, and the company has just announced the availability of documentation for developers interested in benefiting from the solution. When announcing the new BlackBerry ... |
27 August 2010
16:01 GMT |
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Kinect is the next big thing coming to the Xbox 360 home console from Microsoft, with the launch date set for November 4 in North America and later during the same month in Europe. We know that the device will come in a bundle initially, with the price set at 149.99 dollars for a bundle that includes a game designed ... |
5 August 2010
02:46 GMT |
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The building of software solutions for Google's Android operating system has just got a little easier, as a new tool is available for those interested in the matter, namely the App Inventor for Android. The new solution enables the development of applications for the Android platform through the use of a web br... |
12 July 2010
06:30 GMT |
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The Symbian Foundation is hard at work with finalizing the latest version of the Symbian operating system, which was announced officially a couple of months ago, namely Synbian^3. The development of the platform has reached the point in which Symbian^3 has been announced as being functionally complete.
Mark Skre... |
17 June 2010
05:45 GMT |
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Windows Phone 7, the next flavor of Microsoft's mobile operating system, was previously reported to lack one of the most appealing features its predecessors had, namely multi-tasking, yet it seems that things are a little different. When launched on the market, Window Phone 7 would not offer multi-tasking for 3... |
21 May 2010
06:32 GMT |
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A generally reliable source tracking Apple’s Mac OS X development cycles has been tipped off on the company’s plans to commence the seeding of early Mac OS X 10.6.4 builds. Mac owners running Snow Leopard have just recently received the third maintenance and security update from Apple, but the company&rsq... |
26 April 2010
10:29 GMT |
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On Thursday, Norwegian software company Opera Software announced the release of Opera Mobile for Windows, Linux and Mac computers, in an attempt to make the testing of mobile Web an even easier process. Developers can now test mobile websites directly from their computers, and all they need to do is to install the f... |
23 April 2010
03:37 GMT |
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Late last year, Sunnyvale-based mobile phone maker Palm unveiled a new mobile development environment for those interested in building applications for its webOS platform, namely Project Ares. Initially available in a beta flavor, the mobile development environment, which is the first one to be hosted entirely in a ... |
20 April 2010
05:13 GMT |
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On Monday, the Linux Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, announced that a series of companies from various sectors had committed to the MeeGo project. According to the Foundation, among those willing to participate in the project, one can count device makers, operating... |
13 April 2010
08:05 GMT |
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The hologram, technically known as augmented reality, has been nothing but a dream until a few years ago, when a group of developers led by Philip Lamb developed a C-powered library (ARToolKit) able to handle dynamic viewpoints and then redraw a 3D object accordingly. Less than a week ago, on February 24, German .NET... |
2 March 2010
06:20 GMT |
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Reports confirm that Apple has updated the iPad development tools to version 3.2 Beta 3, which allows developers to easily update existing iPhone projects to include the necessary files to support iPads. This will make it easier to develop and submit universal apps, sources inform. Minutes after it was available for... |
24 February 2010
06:18 GMT |
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One of the newly introduced concepts in the mobile applications area is that of Super Apps, unveiled by Mike Lazaridis, Research In Motion co-CEO, at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. What this is all about includes those applications that users can't live without, it seems, and which the BlackBerry maker ... |
18 February 2010
04:31 GMT |
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In a routine move, Apple has updated the iPhone Software Development Kit to version 3.1.3, following the release of a new iPhone OS carrying the same version number. Multiple versions of the iPhone SDK now exist, with the most prominent of the bunch being SDK 3.2 for the Apple iPad, and now SDK 3.1.3, for developers ... |
3 February 2010
03:18 GMT |
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Appcelerator has disclosed findings gathered from a poll of application developers about their plans to build software for the impending Apple tablet computer. Some 554 developers offered their point of view on the matter and revealed their plans, interests and preferences surrounding the device, Appcelerator says.Ap... |
26 January 2010
10:47 GMT |
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Over at the VideoLan forum, a post titled “VLC is looking for MacOS X developers” reveals that there are currently “zero” developers handling the Mac version of the popular media player. “As an immediate consequence, the 64-bits releases for MacOS has already been put on hold,” Vid... |
12 January 2010
05:51 GMT |
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Anthony Laforge, Google Chrome program manager, has announced that the most recent Chrome for Mac release can be used to switch back to the Dev channel. Over half a dozen changes are mentioned on the Mac front, including enabled extensions, with the build being available for both Linux and Windows platforms. “... |
7 January 2010
08:08 GMT |
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