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Google cripples AllCast for ChromeCast 26 Aug 2013 | 09:24 pm
Heads up. Google's latest Chromecast update intentionally breaks AllCast. They disabled 'video_playback' support from the ChromeCast application. Given that this is the second time they've purposeful...
Nokia Sirius: a 10.1-inch Windows RT tablet 26 Aug 2013 | 07:52 pm
Nokia is preparing to back Windows RT by launching a 10.1-inch tablet soon. Sources familiar with Nokia's plans have revealed to The Verge that the tablet, codenamed Sirius, will be launched shortly. ...
No more notification ads, icon ads in Android applications 24 Aug 2013 | 10:09 pm
Google has revised its Play Store rules. This is new: Apps and their ads must not add homescreen shortcuts, browser bookmarks, or icons on the user's device as a service to third parties or for adver...
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer retires 23 Aug 2013 | 06:12 pm
Microsoft Corp. today announced that Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer has decided to retire as CEO within the next 12 months, upon the completion of a process to choose his successor. In the mean...
AROS research on SMP 23 Aug 2013 | 05:02 pm
'Silly-SMP' is a project to determine "What are the minimal changes needed to AROS to support 'full' SMP? Is it even possible?" [...] This is Research with a capital 'R'. But that '25% of the time'...
Software patents cause of rise in patent suits, says US gov 23 Aug 2013 | 01:54 pm
Ars Technica looks at a government report on the rise in patent lawsuits, and concludes that most of it is caused by software patents. As is clearly visible in the graph above, the data shows that ma...
Linux may have been causing USB disconnects 23 Aug 2013 | 01:37 pm
Pretty much for my entire career in Linux USB (eight years now?), we've been complaining about how USB device power management just sucks. We enable auto-suspend for a USB device driver, and find doze...
Over a third of BB10 applications come from one developer 23 Aug 2013 | 03:18 am
"BlackBerry has a thriving ecosystem with BlackBerry 10." That's what CEO Thorsten Heins said this May at a developer conference before revealing that users had a choice of 120,000 apps from its still...
Haiku's package management: the return of the hybrid 23 Aug 2013 | 02:00 am
Although I have been a lazy blogger lately we haven't been lazy working on our remaining tasks at all. So, unsurprisingly, since my previous post we have reached and passed a few nice milestones. The ...
Lenovo PCs to ship with Start menu replacement 23 Aug 2013 | 01:51 am
Pokki, a Start menu replacement for Windows 8, will be installed on all Lenovo PCs. Weâre excited to announce that the #1 PC maker in the world, Lenovo, will be shipping Pokki on new Windows 8 devi...
