Matias Vangsnes

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Valve software announces its games library will come to Ubuntu

Wednesday, August 8th, 2012

Valve, the makers of the popular game-distribution service Steam, has announced plans to convert its software and games for the Linux operating system, specifically Ubuntu. It follows comments made by Gabe Newell, Chief Executive and co-founder of Valve, who said: “I think that Windows 8 is kind of a catastrophe for everybody in the PC [...]

Report: Chatwing Introduces Global Chat Box to Gaming Bloggers in Ever-growing WordPress Community

Wednesday, August 1st, 2012

Gaming bloggers in WordPress can now benefit from Chatwing’s latest chat widget. This chat application excels in providing web communication for thousands of bloggers and their visitors New York, NY (PRWEB) July 31, 2012 Game bloggers in WordPress will now be able to reach more people and share their hot tips with the help of [...]

EuroDNS promotion offers .SG domain names at €24.99

Wednesday, August 1st, 2012

With a population of over five million and described by the World Bank as, “the easiest place to do business”; EuroDNS would like to introduce its customers to Singapore, the Lion City. The EuroDNS promotion on .SG domain names allows customers to register new or transfer existing domain names at a promotional rate. Valid until [...]

Preview of Jeremy Fox’s Barnyard in Venice

Tuesday, July 31st, 2012

Celebrated chef Jeremy Fox has been infamous for his many talents at Ubuntu in Napa, but has recently decided to relocate to Los Angeles to open his very own restaurant called Barnyard. This exciting news came about after consulting menus at Paper or Plastik and Freddy Smalls. Fox has always wanted to venture out on [...]

Professional Tutor-Led Advanced WordPress Training In London

Friday, July 27th, 2012

PRLog (Press Release) – Jul 27, 2012 – . Our training takes place at our training centre in Enfield, North London and our tutor has many years worth of experience in the web design industry. Why have we created this WordPress course?WordPress, albeit largely an intuitive software to use, can be a bit tricky to [...]

Memolane: Highlight Social Content With New Embed Features And WordPress Plugin

Thursday, July 26th, 2012

Memolane, a startup that helps users archive and explore their content across social networks, has been working to make it easier to share that content, for example by allowing users to share “lanes” with their Facebook friends. Now, founder Eric Lagier says publishers, brands, and anyone else should have an easy time featuring that content [...]

Comm100 Live Chat Plugin for WordPress & Joomla Hits the Market

Thursday, July 26th, 2012

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, July 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Comm100, the leader in customer service and communication software, has just announced the launch of live chat plugins for WordPress and Joomla, the two most widely used Content Management Systems (CMS) in the world. As Comm100′s flagship product, Comm100 Live Chat can now be quickly installed on [...]

Google & Amazon, Two Of The Largest gTLD Applicants Team Up To Form A …

Wednesday, July 25th, 2012

Google and Amazon, two of biggest applicants for new gTLD’s just teamed up to form the InternetAssociation.org a new lobbying group. According to the Washington Post other founding members include eBay and Facebook. According the Internet Association’s website: “The Internet Association is the unified voice of the Internet economy, representing the interests of America’s leading [...]

Trustwave Teams With Microsoft to Bring Open-Source Web Application Firewall to Top Web Server Platforms

Wednesday, July 25th, 2012

CHICAGO, IL–(Marketwire -07/25/12)- Trustwave, a leading provider of cloud-based compliance and information security solutions, today announced that the popular, open source ModSecurity® Web Application Firewall now supports the top three Web server platforms, including new support for Microsoft’s Internet Information Services (IIS) and Nginx, in addition to existing support for Apache Web servers. Trustwave collaborated [...]

Social Gallery WordPress Premium Plugin Launched

Tuesday, July 24th, 2012

PRLog (Press Release) – Jul 24, 2012 – This week Social Gallery – a new premium plugin for WordPress was released by StormGate, a web development company in England. Social Gallery is “the product of one of our internal projects” – a social take on the often under-leveraged way of viewing images in WordPress blog [...]

Facebook, Last.fm and pals to reach deep into Ubuntu

Tuesday, July 24th, 2012

Websites will be able to hook into the Ubuntu desktop in the Linux distro’s next release – allowing, for example, users to receive “new message” pings from webmail services. Canonical boss and spaceman Mark Shuttleworth announced the availability of “web apps” in Ubuntu 12.10, due in October, at OSCON, Canonical marketing veep Steve George blogged. [...]

Canonical unveils Ubuntu Web Apps – bit

Sunday, July 22nd, 2012

Canonical’s Ubuntu Web Apps promises to give web applications like Gmail, Facebook and Last.fm the same power as desktop applications. Canonical’s Mark Shuttleworth has unveiled a new feature of his company’s Ubuntu Linux distribution, set to appear in version 12.10 later this year: web apps. Taking a leaf from Mozilla’s Prism project and Google’s Chrome [...]

Ubuntu adds WebApps to its Linux desktop

Sunday, July 22nd, 2012

Portland, OR: At OSCon, Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical, Ubuntu Linux’s parent company announced that it’s adding a new feature to its Ubuntu desktop: the ability to use popular Internet services and Websites, such as Google’s GMail and Facebook as desktop applications, Ubuntu WebApps. This feature will formally appear in the next release of Ubuntu [...]

Ubuntu Turns Websites Into WebApps

Saturday, July 21st, 2012

Canonical has developed a feature for Ubuntu Linux allowing it to run web pages as though they were desktop applications, something the company calls Ubuntu WebApps. The feature, announced at the O’Reilly Open Source Conference (OSCON) in Portland, Oregon this week, is a further step towards integrating web services into the desktop, something companies such [...]

Dell Ubuntu Linux Developer Laptop Launches this Fall: Project Sputnik FTW

Friday, July 20th, 2012

XPS13 Ultrabook(Photo: Dell | Mobile Apps) Dell announced on Wednesday, July 18, that it is officially back into the Linux laptop market. Project sputnik, which was first announced back in May, will now move out of Dell’s internal incubator program and graduate into a real product. Starting this fall, Dell will be selling a special [...]

Ubuntu 12.04 ‘WebApps’ frees popular websites from browser

Friday, July 20th, 2012

Canonical is talking up a new feature of the Ubuntu 12.10 (‘Quantal Quetzal’) release that will allow popular web services such as Facebook, Twitter, and Gmail to partly emulate the behaviour of desktop applications. Called WebApps, the technology offers a way for web services and sites to let Ubuntu Unity users access them direct from [...]

Who Will Buy an Ubuntu Ultrabook?

Friday, July 20th, 2012

Jamie Condliffe View Profile Email Facebook Twitter RSS Dell has announced that it’s planning to bring Ubuntu to the masses. In the fall of 2012, Dell’s XPS 13 will be available with an install of Ubuntu direct from the company. But who’s going to buy one? I should point out that, until recently, I was [...]

Ubuntu Linux 12.10 Will Integrate Web Apps into the Desktop

Friday, July 20th, 2012

The next version of Ubuntu Linux will include a new feature that can incorporate commonly used Web apps directly into the user’s desktop, Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth announced at OSCON on Thursday. The new feature, called Ubuntu Web Apps, will give users of the popular Linux distribution a way to run online applications such as [...]

Your very own ARM-based Ubuntu servers in the cloud… for free

Wednesday, July 18th, 2012

Not content with dominating the world of smartphones and tablets, makers of low-power ARM chips are setting their sights on the server market. While x86 servers are still the norm, there have been hints for some time that ARM might become a presence in the data center. Another small, early step toward an ARM future [...]

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