Open Source

SEAndroid: Security Enhanced Android by NSA

January 19, 2012 |

Android is the most secure mobile smartphone OS in the market today, thanks to the inherent sandboxing inspired from world’s most secure browser: Chrome. Such security is really consumer grade,… Read more »

Linux Growth Rate, Trends [Infographic]

January 5, 2012 |

Linux OS, with time, is emerging as a fairly popular Operating System. There was time when Desktop PC was considered to be the major part of the Computers segment. Times… Read more »

James Gosling leaves Google, joins Robotics startup

August 31, 2011 |

After spending only months at Google (March-August 2011), The Father of Java, James Gosling, makes yet another switch. This time its not another software giant but rather a startup that… Read more »

Java 7 Features – What’s New

July 29, 2011 |

The long awaited and the most delayed version of Java is finally made available to public. The last Java update was in December 2006 and Java 7 was originally planned… Read more »

Linux Kernel 3.0 Features, What’s New

July 22, 2011 |

Linux Kernel gets next milestone, Linux 3.0 is now available to the general public. The announcement of Linux 3.0 comes from the founder Linus Torvalds himself as he mailed it… Read more »

Skype Protocol Source Code download

June 2, 2011 |

Skype encryption for secure calling had been broken sometime back, and now Efim Bushmanov a freelance researcher, has been able to reverse engineer the protocol right to its roots. Skype… Read more »

Run Linux in Browser [Qemu Javascript Emulator]

May 17, 2011 |

We often use emulators like Qemu, Virtualbox, VMWare to virtualize another Operating systems on a different platform. Qemu is popular and open source emulator that lets you virtualize nearly any… Read more »

Google IO 2011 Android Keynote Video, Highlights [Takeaways]

May 10, 2011 |

Google IO 2011 keynote literally blew everyone’s mind. Google kickstarted the event with a number of announcements that every android user & developer was waiting to hear. Update: Keynote Video… Read more »

Google buys 6,000 Nortel Patents, Opens them up

April 4, 2011 |

Ruthless Software Patents are Evil, claims the industry’s top innovators. Not only do they prevent good things from happening, they often aren’t worth the trouble. The tech world has recently… Read more »

Nokia Open Sources Symbian

April 2, 2011 |

Symbian had been acquired by Nokia years before its downfall. They made a good start by Open Sourcing a part of it with a plan to Open source rest of… Read more »

Father of Java Joins Google

March 28, 2011 |

If you love Java or Open source, here is a good news for you. James Gosling aka Father of Java, has joined Google and you will be glad to know… Read more »

Java would Run inside Javascript runtime Environment (besides JVM)

December 14, 2010 |

VP of Java development at Oracle has hinted that the Java 7 is taking shape and could get its public stable release within coming months. There were couple of other… Read more »

Dot-P2P protocol to bring Decentralized, Non-Blockable Torrents

November 30, 2010 |

There have been several charges on the BitTorrent giant, being alleged for billions of dollars of loss caused by piracy. Despite all efforts, Piratebay has lived and its estimated that… Read more »

DIY Open Source PS3 Jailbreak allows Unsigned Apps, Games

September 6, 2010 |

sJust days after the release of the PSJailbreak to backup games, an open source PlayStation 3 jailbreak - PSGroove comes into the picture. Developed by PS3 game console hacker-modder Mathieu Hervais,… Read more »

Ubuntu 10.10 to bring Multitouch for Netbooks, Tablets

August 17, 2010 |

Multitouch is really moving beyond Apple’s products. Having set its success on mobile phones, and Tablets, Multitouch is all set to invade the Netbook segment. Ubuntu has announced that full… Read more »

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