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It seems that not everyone was delighted by Facebook’s $19 billion acquisition of the popular messaging service WhatsApp, with the news sparking a wave of defections to the rival Telegram …
Disgruntled WhatsApp users switch to rival open source Telegram app Read More
With pre-orders selling out in less than a day, the £21.60 Raspberry Pi Linux computer is generating an awful lot of interest, with some pundits heralding it as a revolution in computing.
Ultra cheap Raspberry Pi £22 PC starts shipping, hopes to make Britain great again Read More
Our favourite, open-source sound editing program, Audacity, has just enjoyed a timely upgrade, taking the freebie program up to version 2.0. The latest iteration looks much as the last version – fans …
Ace open source audio editor Audacity hits v2, available on PC, Mac, Linux Read MoreWe associate them most with the old Zip drive from computing days of yore, but Iomega are hoping to make a splash in the emerging Internet TV/media centre market with …
Iomega TV with Boxee offers onboard network storage up to 2GB – full specs listed Read MoreWe got so fed up with Firefox getting slower and slower that we switched to Chrome, but Mozilla’s now gone on the offensive and pointing the blame at the developers …
Firefox slowing to a crawl? Check out the bad boy extensions here Read MoreIf you’ve been feeling the love for the recently released Firefox 4 desktop browser, then steady your heart as Firefox 4 for Android and Maemo is now available as a …
Firefox 4 RC for Android and Maemo now available Read MoreAlready a very popular open source music media manager/player on Windows and Mac, Songbird has now come to the Android platform.
Songbird music player comes to Android, looks a good ‘un Read MoreWordPress, the open source Content Management System that powers 13% of the 1,000,000 biggest websites on the planet has just received an update, with version 3.1 being christened ‘Django”’ in …
WordPress 3.1 released – now ‘more of a CMS than ever before’ Read MoreCanonical has officially launched the latest version of its popular Linux-based operating system, Ubuntu 10.10, with an attractive interface aimed at impressing netbook users.
Ubuntu 10.10 netbook-optimised OS is looking good Read MoreThe seeds of a real David –v- Goliath battle of the boards have been sown as a big American corporate giant decides to sue a small British start-up – and …
Forum Board Wars – may the Xen be with you (vBulletin vs XenForo) Read MoreAfter bubbling away in Google’s Labs, an enhanced image quality option for video chat is now ready for public consumption.
Google Labs gives video chat a quality boost Read MoreDiaspora, an open source open alternative to the monstrously popular social networking site Facebook is set to launch on 15th September. Describing itself as a “privacy-aware, personally-controlled, do it all, …
Open source Diaspora site aims to right Facebook’s social networking wrongs Read MoreBilled as a “timesheet killer,” Toggl is great way for freelancers and team-workers to keep track of their time spent working for The Man. The free service comes in several …
Toggl’s time tracking tools look a treat for your timesheet needs Read MoreWordPress – the most popular blog software on the planet and the content management system powering this very site – has just enjoyed a major upgrade to version 3.0.
WordPress 3.0 (aka Thelonious) gets official release Read MoreThe good folks at Mashable have put together an interesting interview with Free Software Foundation and GNU founder Richard Stallman, discussing just how “open” Google really is. Super beardy Stallman …
Is Google really open? An open source guru comments [Video] Read More