Filed under: Internet, Microsoft, Novell, Open Source
To say that Microsoft and Novell have a muddy history when it comes to open-source projects and the GPL would be an understatement. Things were looking up, with the release of the open-source implementation of Silverlight, Moonlight 2, last week, but today things took a turn for the worse: Novell has just cut all the open source code from MonoDevelop. The implications of this aren't immediately clear, nor can we be certain of what Novell and the Mono development team have in store for us. All we know is that Novell has decided to lock Moonlight development up in a stricter, more-commercial LGPLv2 and MIT X11 license: generally it's a bad thing when free things become non-free. Full story...Filed under: Fun, Games, Time-Wasters
There are plenty of instances where a follow-up isn't as good as the original.Filed under: Video, Education
If you love data visualization, this one's going to blow your mind: I just found an incredible IBM demo, called World Factbook Dashboard.
Filed under: Security
When you're the big dog, evildoers are more likely to target you with their nefarious schemes.Filed under: Internet
Curious about how your current Internet provider compares to other local options? Take a look at Ookla's Net Index, which has compiled user test results from around the world into easy-to-understand rankings.Filed under: Microsoft, Browsers
There's only four weeks to go until the next IE9 developer preview, and it looks like Chinese leak site Cnbeta might have got its hands on the new build already.Filed under: Internet, News, P2P, web 2.0
There's no exploitation in play here, just the wholesale harvesting and presentation of superficial data for roughly one-fifth of Facebook's half-billion strong user-base.
Filed under: Security, Google, Android
The Android Market is doing away with its current copy protection scheme for apps, because breaking protection to pirate the apps is a little bit too easy for the comfort of the developers who sell their software in the market.Filed under: Utilities, VoIP, iPhone
So, you've got a new iPhone 4, and you love FaceTime, but you're finding it's just not that useful.Filed under: Fun, Games, Kids, Time-Wasters, Web
Ricochet Kills 2 is a splendidly violent physics-based puzzle game.
Filed under: Google, Browsers
While the built-in default is functional, you might be looking for a way to add some sizzle to your Google Chrome new tab page.