Canonical to crowdfund first batch of Ubuntu Edge phones
Canonical is taking its innovative smartphone design directly to potential customers. The company has launched a crowdfunding campaign to build the original batch of its planned Ubuntu Edge devices. Canonical hopes to raise $32 million within 30 days, to build 40,000 units. It will use the Indiegogo service and the Paypal electronic payment service, to collect the contributions.
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Security researcher claims good intentions in hacking Apple Dev Center
Apple has finally explained why its Dev Center has been mysteriously shut down since
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Khronos Group releases updates to graphics, parallel programming tools
Programming tools that harness the computing power of CPUs and graphics processors have been updated, bringing more parallel programming capabilities to the table. Standards-setting firm Khronos Group released OpenCL 2.0, which is a key development platform used to write applications in which processing is broken down over multiple processors and hardware inside systems. The group also released OpenGL 4.4, a graphics programming standard that takes advantage of the latest graphics hardware available in consoles, PCs and mobile devices.
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Oracle and ARM to tweak Java
Oracle and ARM are working together to make the Java programming language more suitable for ARM processors in order to encourage its use for embedded systems and enterprise software. The work will customize the Java Platform, SE (Standard Edition) for ARM 32-bit platforms, making it more suitable for embedded systems, and the Java SE for ARMv8 64-bit platforms, where it could be used to build enterprise software and networking firmware to run on ARM servers and networking gear.
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Google buys speech recognition patents
Google has acquired from the SR Tech Group a portfolio of U.S. patents and patent applications that includes several speech related patents. The portfolio includes a patent covering a speech interface for search engines and a patent that covers a system for modifying and updating a speech recognition program, the SR Tech Group said in a news release on Monday.
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Software employment grows 45 percent in 10 years as angst in engineering grows
You may remember Darin Wedel. Early last year, his wife, Jennifer, asked President Barack Obama during a town hall-style conference call, about H-1B visas. Her husband had been laid off from Texas Instruments, she told him, despite strong credentials that included a patent he held. Why does the government continue "to issue and extend H-1B visas when there are tons of Americans just like my husband with no job?" Mrs. Wedel asked the president.
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U.S. court renews permission to NSA to collect phone metadata
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has renewed permission to the U.S. government for a controversial program to collect telephone metadata in bulk. The office of the Director of National Intelligence said the government filed an application with the FISC seeking renewal of the authority to collect telephony metadata in bulk, and the court renewed that authority, which expired on Friday.
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Ubuntu forum defaced, breached by hackers
A website dedicated to discussion of the Ubuntu Linux distribution was breached on Saturday, with hackers gaining access to encrypted passwords and email addresses. The site, Ubuntuforums.org, will remain offline until it can be fixed, wrote Jane Silber, CEO of Canonical, a company that develops and provides services for the free, open-source operating system.
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HP, NEC to develop next-generation x86 servers
Hewlett-Packard and Japan's NEC will expand their existing partnership to develop high-end x86-based servers for cloud and Web applications.
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Adobe's PhoneGap 3.0 smooths the way for plug-ins
PhoneGap, Adobe's open source mobile application development framework, has been upgraded with a streamli
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