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IBM for the last time a version of Office suite Symphony has released. Symphony will be discontinued in favor of OpenOffice.org.

Symphony is IBM’s proprietary Office suite, which is derived from OpenOffice.org 3 and free for downloading. The new version is 3.0.1 , according to Ed Brill from IBM to latest version of Symphony. This means that users get to upgrade again, appears to Apache OpenOffice. The whole energy of the IBM developers should now be placed in the continuation of OpenOffice.org, which is home since mid-2011 at the Apache Foundation.
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The KDE developers Christoph Feck has image zero (“iz” spoken, “easy”) presented a lossless compression algorithm for images, in addition to a high compression rate and can still score with a high speed.

image zero should be used especially where users often open and save images, some with image editing programs. Information about the losses that occur for example in JPG images to get at, Feck evaluated in recent months, several lossless image compression algorithms. In their comparison in Lossless Compression Benchmark photo he was disappointed with PNG and JPEG-LS. On the one hand, they worked him some too slow, on the other hand, they were provided with patents. Consequently, he decided to make it better and initiated zero image, a high-performance, lossless codec for RGB pictures.
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Came third major version of the open source project cloud storage and data processing ownCloud, the number of users which exceeded 350 thousand

New features:

• “Cloud” text editing. Allows users to edit files directly from the browser as well as free access to the network. The modified files can be synchronized with the upcoming release client synchronization. The new online editor supports:
  • syntax highlighting for 35 languages, programming
  • Drag’n'Drop
  • automatic indentation
  • syntax checking for JavaScript, Coffee and CSS.

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Available file-sharing p2p-release hub μHub 0.4.0. The hub is intended to bring the technology hubs Advanced Direct Connect operating systems, Unix / Linux / OS X / BSD / etc.

With the previous version have been modified as follows:

• Plugin System (unfortunately not in LUA):
  • display motd / rules
  • chat history
  • blocking general chat
  • Logging
  • Sign in SQLite3/file

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There was a new release of the program data backup to restore the operating system after an unexpected fall of Clonezilla Live 1.2.12-10. The program is very useful for the experimenters and beginners as it allows you to quickly recover data. Here are a few changes and improvements have concerned this release:

• This update is mainly affected GNU / Linux operating systems. This release is based on Debian Sid repository on January 27, 2012
• linux-kernel 3.2.1-2.
• Version partclone 0.2.45.
• Version of Syslinux 4.0.5.
• Improved implementation of osc-update-syslinux. Only when the files that need to be updated are in the “syslinux-i” will work.

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On Saturday, January 28, one of the developers of KDE Aaron Seigo on his blog announced the imminent release to the market a new Tablet PC, Spark, which will be pre-production environment Plasma Active.

The computer will run Linux, the hardware is modest, but adequate:

• 1GHz processor AMLogic presumably AML8726-M Cortex-A9
• Mali-400 graphics card
• 512 MB of RAM
• 4 GB of internal memory
• capacitive multi-touch display 800×480
• WiFi
• Slot for SD-cards
• two USB-ports

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At the end of last year there was an attack by sorting on WPS.

Wireless Protected Setup (WPS) – a standard that was designed to simplify setup a secure wireless network and connect it to devices. In one embodiment, the device is connected to a wireless network uses 8-digit number called a PIN-ohm and generated an access point, which must be entered on the device. As standard, this method should be maintained for WPS certified device to fail.

The danger is that the device can access the wireless network with WPS enabled without the administrator / owner of the network.
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The Bundeswehr is financing the open-source application “APP-6 Maker mobile symbol Edition” for Android-powered devices that can combine with the military users of the Allied Procedural Publication Standard (APP, version 6) NATO corresponding Kennzeichnugssymbole with geographic information systems.

As the open-source portal Joinup the European Commission reported , should become familiar with the APP-6 Maker Mobile Icon Edition information that is relevant to organizational and military contexts, display in a uniform and standardized representation, while the concept of point of Interests (interesting points) followed. The POIs can be used in the application in an OASIS ebXML repository managed and deployed.
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EnterpriseDB, PostgreSQL-based provider of database systems, has introduced its services to complement an enhanced version of PostgreSQL for the cloud.

EnterpriseDB has been providing products and services in March 2004 based on the free database PostgreSQL for business use. Includes not only the basic version of PostgreSQL binaries and an installation program, the company offers an expanded version as “Postgres Plus Standard Server” and “Postgres Plus Advanced Server.” The latter is particularly suited to large customers with a correspondingly large databases and high performance requirements.
The trend toward cloud now also joins EnterpriseDB and Postgres Plus database published as a cloud database for the Amazon cloud and HP Cloud Compute. For the database to service, will use the customer directly, without need to first set up laboriously.
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The tool collection hardware Locality (Hwloc), system components such as processor cores and cache is mapped in version 1.4 available with new features.

The new version under the heading of “ multi-node topologies , “with an interface and tools to investigate not only individual computers, but entire cluster and map. There are Linux and Solaris, the new attributes “CPUModel” and “CPUTYPE” for socket objects. Advanced features help computing on NVIDIA GPUs with CUDA.
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