Kubuntu funding cut just one step in Canonical's grand plan

Canonical's withdrawal of funding to the Kubuntu project apparently is not very important to the company's owner, Mark Shuttleworth.

Kubuntu funding cut just one step in Canonical's grand plan

Canonical's withdrawal of funding to the Kubuntu project apparently is not very important to the company's owner, Mark Shuttleworth.
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How to stop newly recorded iPhone videos from wiping themselves ‘accidentally’

Have you ever recorded a video clip on your iPhone – only to discover it has deleted itself after trying to get the camera application to respond… and are wondering why?
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iPhone ‘worker abuse’ iProtest at select global Apple iStores

Ethical worker rights do-gooders plan wheelbarrow delivered petition protest featuring 250,000 signatures and an ethical iProtester dressed in a presumably ethically made iPhone iSuit – in Sydney, Washington DC, New York City, San Francisco, London and Bangalore.
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Roger Boisjoly dead at 73: You should know who he is!

Roger Boisjoly was one of the engineers that vehemently opposed the launch of the space shuttle Challenger because he was firmly convinced its o-rings would not hold up under the very cold conditions on the morning of January 28, 1986. He and other engineers were correct. NASA was wrong -- dead wrong.
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Possible responses to Optus TV Now case threaten our rights

Stephen Conroy, the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, is reportedly foreshadowing changes in the legislation to stop Optus offering its TV Now service, following the company's court win last week. Any changes are likely to whittle away at the exemption we currently enjoy to time-shift programs.
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LibreOffice making steady progress

A little more than a year after The Document Foundation was set up to look after LibreOffice, the fork of the former OpenOffice.org project, it seems that Oracle did the users of the latter office suite a great favour by neglecting it.
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Increase your DropBox by 5Gb for free

  Longtime readers know I am a strong advocate for DropBox, the cloud-based file-synchronisation service. For a limited time you can increase your free DropBox capacity by 5Gb following these simple steps.
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How to charge your iPad faster – with the white plug or your Windows PC!

Are you annoyed that your iPad seems to charge really slowly – or that your Windows PC refuses to charge your iPad, instead giving you a “not charging” message? Here’s what you absolutely must know!
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RIP, John Linton, a great Internet and anti-NBN-wastage crusader

It was with considerable sadness that the Australian tech and Internet world learned of Exetel CEO John Linton’s passing due to a stroke, while also taking away one of the NBN’s fiercest critics.
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SFC director Kuhn reacts to BusyBox flame war

The executive director of the Software Freedom Conservancy, Bradley Kuhn, says that enforcing the GNU General Public Licence is a means of defending software freedom.
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Is NASA building a “rocket to nowhere”?

NASA has been criticized lately about building a heavy-lift rocket -- the Space Launch System (SLS) -- without a clear goal in mind as to where it will go in space. NASA responds to this question.  
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A cleaner Internet – or a censored Internet?

A news report says Kevin Bermeister, of Kazaa fame, thinks major network equipment providers could easily use a “global file registry filter” to “reduce piracy” – but surely censorship could easily rear its even uglier head?
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Yep, Telstra’s 4G in 4G zones is definitely worthwhile

If you’re in a 4G coverage area and you’re sporting a 4G LTE capable device, it should come as no surprise to discover that 4G devices deliver vastly better ping and download speeds than 3G devices.
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BusyBox replacement project fuels animated verbal spat

It's been some time since there was a good old-fashioned verbal spat in the free and open source software community.
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Vodafone and McAfee partner on Android smartphone security

In a world where Android smartphones are potential Typhoid Annie’s in your pocket, all the big security companies have released Android Internet Security suites, with Vodafone and McAfee now joining forces to provide protection – and all important backup – for AUD $3 per month.
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Does your sysadmin pass the Van Halen brown candy test?

If your desktop environment is littered with unnecessary icons or apps then dig deeper. Apply the Van Halen M&M test.
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Apple’s Q4 2011 dominance no surprise to iOS faithful

If you’ve ever used Apple’s iOS, and then had to suffer through the mishmash of interfaces, front-ends, endless processor and hardware variations and more from the world of Android, it should be absolutely no surprise that Apple was able to reclaim the Q4 2011 top spot.
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Amazon's Kindle Fire burns competing Android tablets?

Flurry, a mobile app analytics and advertising platform, has released some analysis showing, Amazon’s Kindle Fire equalling the “session usage” that Samsung’s Galaxy Tab is seeing in astounding record time.
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Jobs ogled Google’s job snatching, iDidn't like it

Way back in 2007, when Google’s then CEO Eric Schmidt was still a presumably trusted Apple board member, he was asked by then Apple CEO Steve Jobs to have Google stop trying to poach an Apple employee, with Google starkly promising to rapidly terminate the person responsible.
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