Qt Developer Days: Previews of Qt 4.5 and 4.6
Oct 16, 2008In his keynote at the Qt Developer Days 2008, Matthias Ettrich covered the upcoming versions 4.5 and 4.6 of Qt due to release the beginning and end of 2009, respectively.
more »Bacula Systems: Commercial Support for Backup Program
Oct 15, 2008Members of the Swiss Bacula community have created Bacula Systems SA, a new company that will offer professional support and services for the backup program.
more »New and Improved: Opera 9.6
Oct 09, 2008Version 9.5 of the free web browser Opera hasn’t been around that long, but developers have already released an update. Opera 9.6 comes with numerous improvements to the features in 9.5.
more »OOXML Documentation: ISO Concerned
Oct 08, 2008The International Standards Organization (ISO) is up in arms over the fact that documentation for Microsoft's OOXML data format is now publicly available on the Internet. Meanwhile, ISO members are nervously watching IBM's behavior in the standardization process.
more »Experts leave Norwegian Standards Committee because of OOXML
Oct 06, 2008On September 29, 13 out of 23 employees from the technical committee of Standard Norge signed an open letter announcing their resignations. The reason: Norway’s “yes” to OOXML
more »RawTherapee Processing RAW files with RawTherapee
Sep 30, 2008RAW format images offer more options for editing than JPEG formats – RawTherapee brings this potential to Linux.
more »Browser Clone: Iron Instead of Chrome
Sep 26, 2008A new product, Iron, is a viable alternative for those reluctant to reveal their personal data when using Google's Chrome browser. The Iron browser is based on Chrome's source code.
more »Breakthrough: Open Source Firm Official Supplier to British Schools
Sep 26, 2008The British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (Becta), the government body with the mission of "Leading next generation learning," has for the first time included Open Source enterprises on their list of official software and IT service suppliers for the nation's schools.
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