http://www.linuxfordevices.com – A new version of one of the world's most popular programming languages has been unanimously approved by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). C++11 will be & more natural ... and as efficient as ever,& and will include a new standardized memory model, according to creator Bjarne Stroustrup.... (Embedded)
Email this pagehttp://www.linuxfordevices.com – ComScore's second-quarter U.S. smartphone study shows that Android went up two percent in June to 40.1 percent share, while Apple's iOS remained steady at 26.6 percent. Meanwhile, Jumptap released a study comparing usage state-by-state, showing iOS' strength in New England and the upper Midwest and Android's greater popularity in the South and West.... (Embedded)
Email this pagehttp://www.linuxfordevices.com – At this week's Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, security researchers will be addressing SSL vulnerabilities, mobile attacks, Chrome OS security gaps, and & war-texting& -- a snooping technique that could also enable a car to be started remotely. Meanwhile, the nominations for the 2011 Pwnie Awards at Black Hat include a nod to Sony for its incompetence at security.... (Embedded)
Email this pagehttp://www.linuxfordevices.com – [Updated: 3:30PM] -- Open source hacker community Gizmo For You is developing a Linux-based controller and separate receiver device to remotely control a model airplane or other vehicle. (Embedded)
Email this pagehttp://www.linuxfordevices.com – Kootol Software Ltd. has sent & a notice& to Apple, Faccebook, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Twitter, and several dozen other tech companies regarding a soon-to-be-awarded patent on a & core technology& apparently involving social networking. Meanwhile, legal attacks by & patent troll& Lodsys are causing small app developers to withdraw from the U.S. (Embedded)
Email this pagehttp://www.linuxfordevices.com – CERN announced version 1.1 of its Open Hardware License (OHL), a legal framework & designed to facilitate knowledge exchange across the electronic design community. The license is intended to become for hardware what the GPL (General Public License) is for software, the organization says.... (Embedded)
Email this pagehttp://www.linuxfordevices.com – Linaro announced an open-platform $199 & Origen& development board made by InSignal that incorporates Samsung's dual-core Cortex-A9 Exynos 4210 processor, a Mali400 GPU, and Linaro open source Linux and Android BSPs. (Embedded)
Email this pagehttp://www.linuxfordevices.com – Though it came late to the growing tablet space, AMD is apparently about to announce a set of Z-Series (& Desna& ) chips for this market. The announcement, expected at a June 1 press conference, follows the May 27 leak of a company slide show on the Android Community website.... (Embedded)
Email this pagehttp://www.linuxfordevices.com – Cray's latest supercomputer will run Cray's modified version of SUSE Linux on AMD's upcoming 16-core & Interlagos& Opteron chip and Nvidia's Tesla 20-Series GPU (graphics processing unit). The XK6 system should deliver up to 50 petaflops of performance when it ships later this year, claims Cray.... (Embedded)
Email this pagehttp://www.linuxfordevices.com – The final Linux 2.6.39 kernel was released with a fairly modest feature set, led by a new IPset technology for simplifying firewall deployment. Other major features include Ext4 performance and scalability improvements, a media controller subsystem for video acquisition, a block plugging overhaul for fast storage I/O, and support for the latest AMD & Cayman& Radeon graphics.... (Embedded)
Email this pagehttp://www.linuxfordevices.com – Timesys announced LinuxLink support for PMC-Sierra's MIPS-based WinPath3-SuperLite networking system on chip (SoC), a scaled-down version of the WinPath3. (Embedded)
Email this pagehttp://www.linuxfordevices.com – The Fedora Project announced the beta release of its Fedora 15 & Lovelock& Linux distribution, featuring the new GNOME 3 desktop, the Systemd initialization system, and a new dynamic firewall feature. Meanwhile, though, GNOME 3 has received mixed reviews from the GNOME faithful, many claiming the project went too far in simplifying the interface.... (Embedded)
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