The next generation of Windows XP Embedded, Windows Embedded Standard 2009, enables devices to easily connect to Windows Vista-based PCs and take advantage of new features in Windows Server 2008.
ORLANDO, Fla. — June 4, 2008 — Today at the Tech•Ed North America 2008 Developers conference and through a global webcast event, Microsoft Corp. announced the immediate availability of the Windows Embedded Standard 2009 Community Technology Preview (CTP). In addition, the company stated the product will be available to customers in the fourth quarter of 2008. Windows Embedded Standard 2009 is …

Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, NEC, NextWave Wireless, Nokia, Nokia Siemens Networks and Sony Ericsson have today announced a mutual commitment to a framework for establishing predictable and more transparent maximum aggregate costs for licensing intellectual property rights (IPR) that relate to 3GPP Long Term Evolution and Service Architecture Evolution standards (LTE/SAE). The companies invite all interested parties to join this initiative which is intended to stimulate early adoption of mobile broadband technology across the communications and consumer electronic industries.
The framework is based on the prevalent industry principle of fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory …

This is the unstable development branch of GIMP. Here we are working
towards the next stable release, which will be GIMP 2.6.
Changes in GIMP 2.5.0
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Core:
- improved rectangle tool drawing for narrow mode
- ported lots (but not all) drawing code to Cairo
- optimized image rendering by using pre-multiplied alpha
- use new GLib features such as GRegex
- use new GTK+ features such as the new GtkTooltip API
- much improved GimpCurve object
- cleaner and smaller tool options
- enable brush scaling for the Smudge tool
- added debugging framework that can be enabled at run-time
- …

09 April - 2008 - QtCentre launced the second edition of the Qt Programming Contest, the only programming contest focused on the Qt®/ Qtopia® community. Last year a range of innovative Qt-based applications were awarded with various electronic devices - Qtopia enabled mobile phones, laptop, recreational devices, various books on software development and more. Perhaps more important, the contestants were shown to the Qt community and new contacts between developers were made.
“I participated in the contest last year primarily for getting expert validation and review for my project (GCF …

Openmoko is a project which encompasses two related sub-projects, with the combined aim of creating a family of completely open source mobile phones. The project was founded by FIC.
The first sub-project is Openmoko Linux, an open source Linux based operating system designed for mobile phones, built using free software.
The second sub-project is the development of Openmoko phones — the hardware devices on which Openmoko Linux runs. The first device released was the Neo 1973, which will soon be joined by the Neo Freerunner some time in 2008. Unlike most other …

Trend Micro’s Web security solutions protect Cisco Integrated Services Router customers from a changing Internet threat environment, increasing worker productivity and protection of digital information.
Cupertino, Calif. – April 8, 2008 – Trend Micro Incorporated (TSE: 4704), a global leader in Internet content security, announced today that it is extending its relationship with Cisco by integrating Trend Micro Web security services into the Cisco® Integrated Services Router (ISR) platform.
The Cisco IOS® Content Filtering solution is an easy-to-deploy, services-based offering that delivers real-time, in-the-cloud, global Web filtering data feeds onto Cisco ISRs. …

What’s new in this release: Improved support for the .NET framework. Better services handling through a separate services.exe process. Support for ATI fragment shader. Better support for http proxies. Window management fixes. Pre-compiled fonts are now available in the source tree. Lots of bug fixes.
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Mono is a project led by Novell (formerly by Ximian) to create an Ecma standard compliant .NET compatible set of tools, including among others a C# compiler and a Common Language Runtime. Mono can be run on Linux, BSD, UNIX, Mac OS X, Solaris and Windows operating systems.
Microsoft has a version of .NET available for FreeBSD, Windows and Mac OS X called the Shared Source CLI (Rotor). Microsoft’s shared source license may be insufficient for the needs of the community (it explicitly forbids commercial use). The Mono project has many …

Linux, Mac and Windows Packages Available Now for Testing and Feedback
Oslo, 12 March - 2008 - Trolltech today released a preview of Qt Jambi 4.4 to its commercial customers and open source users for testing and feedback. Qt Jambi 4.4 is the upcoming release of Trolltech’s software development framework for Java developers. The Qt Jambi preview is based on Qt 4.4. The final release of Qt Jambi 4.4 is currently scheduled for late Q2 2008.
The preview presents a range of new features for testing and feedback. Preview packages are …

New IPv6 Training Lab Is Part of European Union Initiative
SOFIA, Bulgaria - March 12, 2008 - Cisco® and the Bulgarian State Agency for Information Technologies and Communications (DAITS) today announced the opening of Southeast Europe’s first lab for training and research in Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6). The lab’s networking and communication equipment is being donated by Cisco.
Located in the Bulgarian capital city of Sofia, this is Europe’s second IPv6 lab, after the one operated by RENATER, the French national research network in Paris. The laboratories will be interconnected to …