In a fit of irony, iPhone pirating app gets pirated

iPhone Pirating app gets pirated. Plaintive pirate pleads with pirates post plundering: "Don't pirate pirating programs please."

November 21, 2008 - 11:19AM CT - by Erica Sadun

Mozilla revenue $75 million in 2007, up 12 percent

Mozilla has published its financial statements for 2007, which reveal that the organization brought in $75 million. Mozilla chairperson Mitchell Baker says that Firefox's broader user base and expanded geographical reach are signs of success.

November 19, 2008 - 10:05PM CT - by Ryan Paul

Google's Android mobile platform ported to BeagleBoard

Google Linux-based Android mobile platform has been ported to TI's ARM-based hackable BeagleBoard. The port demonstrates the viability of Android on alternative hardware.

November 19, 2008 - 04:33PM CT - by Ryan Paul

Google polishes Chrome with new features

Google has added a new bookmark manager to its open source Chrome web browser. This feature isn't yet included in an official release, but it is available through the developer update channel.

November 19, 2008 - 04:09PM CT - by Ryan Paul

Coherence brings UPnP to GNOME

The Coherence framework is a Python-based implementation of the UPnP protocol and the Digital Living Network Alliance standard. The framework is being used to integrate UPnP support into GNOME applications like Nautilus and Totem.

November 17, 2008 - 04:33PM CT - by Ryan Paul

Firefox 3.1 nightly finally gets linking in source viewer

The HTML source viewer in the latest Firefox nightlies now supports links on URLs and relative paths. This addition finally closes a feature request that was submitted in 1999.

November 17, 2008 - 04:01PM CT - by Ryan Paul

Adobe starts 64-bit Flash testing with Linux alpha

Adobe has released an alpha version of Flash Player for 64-bit Linux, the first for any OS. This marks a big step forward for Adobe's commitment to treating Linux as a first-class citizen. First impressions inside.

November 17, 2008 - 12:29PM CT - by Ryan Paul

Banshee 1.4 media player offers improved device support, G1 compatibility

The Banshee development team has released version 1.4. The new version of the popular open source media player includes improved support for audio player devices, including the Android-based T-Mobile G1.

November 17, 2008 - 05:15AM CT - by Ryan Paul

Ubuntu aims at mobile computing, netbooks with ARM port

Canonical has announced an official port of the Ubuntu Linux distribution for the ARM architecture. This move positions Ubuntu to be the Linux platform of choice for upcoming ARM-based netbook devices.

November 16, 2008 - 02:01PM CT - by Ryan Paul

Things that go Clang in the night: LLVM 2.4 released

Version 2.4 of the Low Level Virtual Machine (LLVM) has been officially released. Ars takes a look at the Clang compiler and some of the new features in the latest version of LLVM.

November 13, 2008 - 09:25AM CT - by Ryan Paul

Parrot Foundation advisory board joined by BBC, ActiveState

The BBC and ActiveState have become the first two members of the Parrot advisory board. They are each providing $5,000 per year to help fund ongoing development of the multi-language virtual machine.

November 12, 2008 - 02:30PM CT - by Ryan Paul

How to: coding a Drop.io uploader for GNOME with Python

This tutorial walks you through the steps of building a Drop.io uploader in Python that integrates with GNOME's Nautilus file manager. Complete source code is included and made available under the GPL.

November 11, 2008 - 10:31AM CT - by Ryan Paul

Ubuntu's Mark Shuttleworth opens up on mobility and design

Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth participated in a Q&A session with Linux users and community members during Ubuntu Open Week. He talked about the success of Dell's Ubuntu preinstallation offerings, his hopes for Linux in the mobile market, and ways that Canonical is giving back to the open source software community.

November 09, 2008 - 10:30PM CT - by Ryan Paul

This week in open source: OpenBSD, Fedora, Qt Creator

This week brought some new open source prereleases, including previews of Songbird, Fedora, and Qt Creator.

November 08, 2008 - 09:45AM CT - by Ryan Paul

Creative releases Linux X-Fi driver under the GPL

Creative has released its Sound Blaster X-Fi Linux driver under the GPL. The driver still has bugs and isn't ready yet for widespread use.

November 06, 2008 - 07:21PM CT - by Ryan Paul

Songbird gets ready to fly with 1.0 release candidate

The first Songbird 1.0 release candidate is now available for download. The new version offers improved performance and more reliability.

November 06, 2008 - 05:27PM CT - by Ryan Paul

Google Gadgets come to the Nokia Internet Tablet

A Nokia developer has ported Google Gadgets to the Nokia Internet Tablet. The port will make it possible to add Gadgets to the Maemo home screen.

November 06, 2008 - 03:31PM CT - by Ryan Paul

Developer demos Amarok 2 running natively on OS X

Amarok 2 marches towards cross-platform compatibility with an improved Mac OS X port.

November 06, 2008 - 12:41PM CT - by Ryan Paul

Fedora 10 preview release shines like a star

The Fedora developers have announced the availability of the Fedora 10 Preview Release, the last prerelease before the official launch. Fedora 10 has some impressive new features and beautiful new artwork.

November 06, 2008 - 11:21AM CT - by Ryan Paul

First extensions arrive for mobile Firefox browser

Mozilla has launched a new section at the addons.mozilla.org web site to accommodate extensions that are developed for the Fennec mobile browser.

November 05, 2008 - 06:33PM CT - by Ryan Paul