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 [...]
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Apple Attempts to Prevent Free In-App Purchase Hack
Friday, July 27th, 2012Apple is taking steps to stop users gaining free in-app purchases through an online hack. Apple have reportedly taken steps to prevent the use of a free in-app purchase hack. The hack, published by Russian hacker Alexy V. Borodin, shows app users how to work around in-app purchases and get the extra content for free. [...]
Successful Forum builds bridges with African community
Monday, July 23rd, 2012Successful Forum builds bridges with African community More than 100 people attended New Zealand’s first national African Forum which was held on Saturday in Auckland. Entitled UBUNTU, which broadly means ‘humanity to others’, the Forum was organised by the Office of Ethnic Affairs (OEA) to provide a common platform to address issues and thereby build [...]
Canonical Equips Ubuntu with Desktop Web Apps
Saturday, July 21st, 2012IDG News Service (New York Bureau) — Canonical is adding a new feature to its Ubuntu operating system that will allow desktop users to access popular Internet services without opening a browser window. Instead, a Web page can be accessed as a desktop application. Using this feature, a Web page “will feel like an application [...]
Dell announces new XPS13 with Ubuntu this Autumn
Friday, July 20th, 2012Dell are looking after developers these days as they announced yesterday that their originally six-month exploratory pilot Project Spudnik will be a product available this Autumn. Based on the Dell XPS 13, the company plan to deliver an official developer laptop with Ubuntu 12.04LTS preloaded, available in select geographies. Made possible by an internal innovation [...]
Your very own ARM-based Ubuntu servers in the cloud… for free
Wednesday, July 18th, 2012Not 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 [...]
Valve announces Ubuntu port of Steam, Source engine, and Left 4 Dead 2
Tuesday, July 17th, 2012Valve has officially revealed that it plans to bring its Steam game distribution service to the Linux platform. The company is also working to port its Source game engine and its popular 2009 title Left 4 Dead 2 (L4D2). The Steam port for Linux was announced this evening on the Valve website in a new [...]
DNS inventor Paul Mockapetris to startups: “Complexity is your enemy”
Friday, July 13th, 2012When Paul Mockapetris invented the Internet’s Domain Name System (DNS), he had no idea his creation would come to shape parts of the web for many years to come. But because he started simple and had a future-looking plan, his concept worked. He thinks startups should follow the same principles. Mockapetris spoke today to a [...]
ICANN Publishes List of Applications in gTLD Expansion Program
Wednesday, July 4th, 2012Over the last year, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has been engaged in the first round of its planned expansion of generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) names. gTLDs are internet domains with general address extensions, such as .com, .net and .edu. There are presently 22 gTLDs, and this expansion plan could add [...]
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