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Imagine Publishing’s camera comparison website receives improved functionality and a whole new look Digicambuyer.co.uk, the website of Digital Camera Essentials magazine,has received a dramatic redesign to allow for quicker and easier access as well as a powerful, simple-to-use search and comparison engine. With hundreds of reviews to call on from ...

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OSCAR winning special effects lab releases 5 technologies as OSS projects Imageworks, the visual effects and digital character animation unit of Sony Pictures, has launched a new open source development program, initially releasing five technologies developed in-house as new open source projects ...

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Dell takes on Microsoft's assertion that Linux suffers from higher return rates on netbooks. The hardware vendor is exploring the possibility of building ARM-based smartbooks with Linux preinstalled. Dell is reportedly planning to expand its Linux lineup and is exploring the possibility ...

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The legal dispute over SCO’s claimed ownership of lines of code supposedly transferred from UNIX into the Linux kernel looks set to continue as the company has received a last-minute reprieve from a Chapter 7 bankruptcy ruling...

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Canonical is offering a dedicated, local version of its Landscape systems management and monitoring server for Ubuntu, rather than insist you access the service through the company's own systems. Canonical will next month launch the Landscape Dedicated Server, which is a local ...

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Google has revealed plans to build a sync service for its Chrome Web browser that will initially support bookmark synchronization, with plans to add other browser data in the future. The code will arrive this week and a test build could be made available later this month....

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Debugging is a vital part of the development process and the information in this feature will educate you in the best way to approach the testing and verification of your code A piece of software may contain bugs (defects). Due to these ...

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As well as being the anniversary of England winning the World Cup and the ill-fated marriage of Charles and Diana, 30 July will take on added significance in the future as it can now be remembered as the day that Linux User and Developer was relaunched!...

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Linuxlinks.com have compiled this excellent list of 7 great twitter clients. Click the link and take a look Micro-blogging is all the rage these days. It is a webservice which allows the subscriber to send short text updates or micromedia such as photos or ...

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Exciting news from Google yesterday as they announced the development of Google Chrome OS - a lightweight operating system for desktops and notebooks based on the Linux Kernel. Sundar Pichai, VP Product Management and Linus Upson, Engineering Director posted the news on ...

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Mozilla have finally released the latest version of the FireFox Internet browser. After three release candidates and four beta versions, FireFox 3.5 has been graded a full version change to reflect the volume of new features and performance upgrades crammed into it....

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The month of June saw the Android operating get a further boost in the form of the Hero, the latest handset from Smartphone doyens HTC. It’s certainly better looking than the T-Mobile G1 and while this isn’t difficult in itself the real ...

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