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Regardless of how you view Novell as a company, few would argue that their release of SLED10 back in July of 2006 was one of the most well engineered Linux Desktops ever released. It was the first release to include "3D Desktop Effects" thanks to David Reveman, a Novell Employee. It had the most comprehensive integration with Samba thanks to their Samba team, which, at the time, included Samba Superstar Jeremy Allison. It had one of the best and fastest OpenOffice.org implementations, thanks to the Novell OpenOffice.org team, which started the excellent go-oo.org development version, and many more features. Read More

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7:52 pm - NASA Preps Closest-Ever Sun Mission

Slashdot - coondoggie writes "NASA today said it had picked five experiments that will ride aboard one of its most ambitious space missions to explore the Sun. The Solar Probe, a car-sized spacecraft, is scheduled to launch no later than 2018 and will fly close......

7:08 pm - Google settles Buzz lawsuit for $8.5M

CNET - Internet privacy groups will be the beneficiary of the settlement, which came as the result of a lawsuit filed over Google's maligned Buzz launch.

6:46 pm - Software (and Appropriate Input Device) For a Toddler?

Slashdot - An anonymous reader writes "I have an 18-month-old who loves bright screens (TV and computer), loves loud noises, and loves to mash buttons. He targets my laptop with the button-mashing, and I sort of hate having to tell him 'no' when he wants to exp......

6:32 pm - Google Streamlines Privacy Policy

CRN - Google plans to delete 12 individual privacy policies relating to specific products to cut repetition.

6:07 pm - Brazil Considering Legalizing File Sharing

Slashdot - An anonymous reader writes "It looks like Brazil may be the country to watch if you're interested in much more consumer-friendly copyright laws (assuming US diplomatic pressure doesn't interfere). As that country goes through a copyright reform proce......

5:45 pm - Reporters' Roundtable: Checking in with Facebook and Foursquare

CNET - VCs are funneling funds into Foursquare, Gowalla, Loopt, and other apps that let users check-in and then broadcast their locations. We find out why on this week's show, featuring Claire Cain Miller of The New York Times and Adrianne Jeffries of ReadW......

5:20 pm - AP: Yeah, we'd better cite pajama-wearing bloggers, too

Ars Technica - The Associated Press didn't need any help from a bunch of unshowered bloggers pecking away at their keyboards from the basement offices in which they play "reporter," thank you very much. Now it knows better. At the AP's 200......

5:13 pm - Game Publishers Using Stealth P2P Clients

Slashdot - An anonymous reader writes "TorrentFreak has shed some light on the dark practice of installing stealth-mode P2P clients during game downloads and using unsuspecting gamers' PCs as 'bandwidth slaves.' The clients operate in the background and largely......

5:00 pm - Facebook adds 'liked' news stories to search results

CNET - Facebook has added more functionality to its search results by including all the articles a user's friends have said they "like."

4:35 pm - Winnie-the-Pooh Parodied In Wookie-the-Chew

Slashdot - pickens writes "Erik Hayden writes in the Atlantic that children will see endearing portraits of Chewbacca rendered in the style of "Winnie-the-Pooh" in the book of drawings "Wookie the Chew," a tribute to the combined genius of George Lucas, A.A.Mil......

4:35 pm - 2010 May Be the First Year YouTube Turns a Profit

Slashdot - eldavojohn writes "Analysts are saying that this year will be the first year YouTube turns a profit. From the New York Times article: 'In the last year, the video site has become a significant contributor to the family business at a time when Google,......

4:05 pm - Pricing Could Determine Samsung Galaxy Tab's Fate

Information Week - Samsung has not released official pricing for its new Android tablet, but its business partners are publishing prices that exceed $1,000 for the seven-inch Tab. ......

3:51 pm - Netgear offers 500Mbps powerline networking via next-gen standard

Ars Technica - Even as the IEEE P1901 working group was set to meet this week to recommend its draft standard for broadband over powerline networks for official status, Netgear announced its line of Powerline AV 500 adapters that incorporat......

3:47 pm - VISA Pulls Plug On ePassporte, Porn Webmasters

Slashdot - tsu doh nimh writes "Credit card giant VISA International has suspended its business with ePassporte, an Internet payment system widely used to pay adult Webmasters and a raft of other affiliate programs. A number of adult Webmaster forums are up in ......

3:44 pm - Dell Strikes Out On 3Par, But Plenty Of Storage Options Remain

CRN - Anyone who thinks Dell is in trouble after losing its bidding war with HP over storage vendor 3PAR will be surprised to see the number of options Dell has for beefing up its storage business.

3:29 pm - Microsoft upgrades free app security tool

Infoworld - Microsoft released this week an upgrade to a tool that helps secure applications for the Internet without having to recode them.

3:25 pm - Ubuntu 10.10 beta arrives with new netbook UI

Ars Technica - Canonical has announced the availability of the Ubuntu 10.10 beta release. The new version of the popular Linux distribution, codenamed Maverick Meerkat, is scheduled for final release in October. It brings some noteworthy......

3:24 pm - Texas opens antitrust investigation of Google

CNET - Attorney General Greg Abbott has asked Google for information regarding the complaints of several companies that Google is penalizing them in search results.

3:12 pm - Nvidia Introduces Improved 400M Series Processors

CRN - With the new GeForce 400M series of graphics processing units (GPUs) inside laptops made by Acer, Asus, Dell, Lenovo, Samsung, and Toshiba, Nvidia may be in a better position to attract partners in the CPU space than it was a year ago.

3:01 pm - New and Old Experiments Combine To Help the Search For Life On Mars

Slashdot - jamie sends in a story about an unexpected finding by the Phoenix Mars Lander which has shed new light on experiments done by the Viking landers back in 1976. The Viking experiments found traces of chlorine compounds that were interpreted to be the r......

2:55 pm - Oil sands release pollutants, contrary to government study

Ars Technica - The extraction of heavy crude oil from oil sands in Canada is releasing as many as 13 kinds of pollutants into the surrounding air and water, according to a study published in PNAS this week. The independent report directly c......

2:45 pm - NVIDIA Announces New Line of Fermi-Based Mobile Chips

Slashdot - MojoKid writes "NVIDIA has announced an entire line-up of Fermi-based GeForce GT and GTX 400M mobile GPUs, seven in total, and revealed a number of notebook design wins from major OEMs. Like their desktop-targeted counterparts, the mobile GeForce GT ......

2:27 pm - Twitter Membership Rises To 145 Million Users With Mobile Apps

CRN - Twitter is gaining a boost with the help of its mobile apps, such as Twitter for iPhone and Twitter for BlackBerry, which have helped increase the microblogging site's membership to 145 million users.

2:14 pm - Where Does Dell Go After Losing 3Par?

Slashdot - crimeandpunishment writes "It was the big deal Dell wanted in a big way. But now that it has lost out to Hewlett-Packard in the bidding war it started for 3Par, where does Dell go in its effort to diversify its business and move into the higher-profi......

2:14 pm - Are the days of kidney dialysis numbered?

CNET - A prototype implantable artificial kidney could, in the next decade, render costly and inefficient dialysis a treatment of the past, according to work out of UCSF.

2:02 pm - Duke Nukem Forever is back: coming to both consoles and PC

Ars Technica - The news of an upcoming announcement at PAX, followed by a tweet that showed the image of a flying pig. These were the hints pointed at a momentous occasion in gaming history: Duke Nukem Forever will see release late this year,......

1:36 pm - Anti-Google Video Runs In Times Square

Slashdot - Hugh Pickens writes "The NY Times reports that Consumer Watchdog is running a 540-square-foot video billboard advertisement in Times Square, New York that shows Google CEO Eric Schmidt as an ingratiating ice cream truck driver who knows everything ab......

1:23 pm - Verizon To Launch Prepaid Calling Service

CRN - Verizon is giving AT&T a run for its money by offering its own prepaid service on select smartphones, targeting users who are reluctant to embark on a two-year service plan.

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1:21 pm - Motorola Takes Another Shot At Apple

Information Week - Motorola has published another full-page ad for one of its Android devices, and takes a poke at the iPhone's inability to access Flash.