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Linux Mint 13 ramps up for KDE release

...KDE and Xfce variants before the end of June, if predictions by project leader Clement Lefebrve pan out. The Linux Mint 13 update to the... Read more

25 May, 2012 by Tom Espiner
Building the farm: From learning to testing

Building the farm: From learning to testing

...the third part of his SharePoint 2010 implementation diary, University of Brighton project leader Rob Schifreen rolls up his sleeves and starts learning Read more

10 May, 2012 by Robert Schifreen

Mozilla readies Firefox 4 release candidate

...Firefox 4 release candidate may be just days away, according to the project leader Mike Beltzner. A posting on the Google developer pages shows that... Read more

4 March, 2011

Iceland swaps Windows for Linux in open-source push

...proprietary technologies from companies such as Oracle, according to Tryggvi Bjorgvinsson, the project leader of Iceland's open-source project. "Cost is one thing, one... Read more

22 March, 2012 by Jack Clark
UK airport body scans will not be opt out

UK airport body scans will not be opt out

Travellers will not be allowed an alternative to a full-body scan at airport security, despite the introduction of new European privacy rights, the UK transport minister has said Read more

23 November, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Facebook, Google: Welcome to the new feudalism

As more and more people spend time on Facebook and Google, the services are gaining an unprecedented amount of user data and becoming like feudal lords from the Middle Ages Read more

10 September, 2011 by Jack Clark
'Road train' tests out hands-free driving

'Road train' tests out hands-free driving

...feedback from the driver — for example, a request to leave a platoon." Project leader Robinson is an employee of Ricardo UK, a technology innovation company... Read more

21 January, 2011 by Tom Espiner
Audubon Birds - A Field Guide to North American Birds 2.0

Audubon Birds - A Field Guide to North American Birds 2.0

...power of eBird in the palm of your hand. Brian Sullivan, eBird project leader Now every birder can have the equivalent of a rare bird... Read more

26 May, 2012

YaCy P2P search engine sees first release

...a few large companies, and compromise our privacy in the process," YaCy project leader Michael Christen said in a statement. Christen said the search engine... Read more

29 November, 2011

O2 plans customer data control console

...passed on to third parties in a chain, said Hanff, a communications project leader at Privacy International. He questioned whether data control would pass back... Read more

15 November, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Google makes Dart for web programmers

...yet encourages structure. Talking at the Goto conference in Denmark on Monday, project leader Lars Bak said that "If we want to focus on making... Read more

10 October, 2011

IBM 'neuron' chips mimic brain processing

...that has been ruling computer architecture for more than half a century," project leader Dharmendra Modha said. "Future applications of computing will increasingly demand functionality... Read more

18 August, 2011 by David Meyer
Unmanned AUVs find Air France wreckage

Unmanned AUVs find Air France wreckage

...area, the vehicles' sonar could pick out the aircraft," David Gallo, the project leader at WHOI, said in the statement. Photo credit: Woods Hole Oceanographic... Read more

5 April, 2011 by Ben Woods

Red Hat rolls out Fedora 14

...the company's Linux distribution aimed at developers and desktop users. Fedora project leader Jared Smith announced the release in a post on Tuesday to... Read more

3 November, 2010 by Matthew Broersma

N900 dual-boot MeeGo option coming for developers

...Maemo and MeeGo, directly on your N900 device," wrote Harri Hakulinen, MeeGo project leader at Nokia. However, according to a statement issued to TheNokiaBlog, a... Read more

14 October, 2010

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