<b>ars Technica:</b> "Microsoft is going on the offensive against Google, accusing the search giant of creating a browser that does not respect user privacy. The company posted a video, embedded below, on TechNet Edge with the following description: "Watch a demo on how Google Chrome collects every keystroke you make..."
eBay may hold a strong position in online classifieds in foreign markets, but in the United States it's nowhere close. How much will the rebranding and redesign of its site help close the gap?
<b>Tech Drive-in:</b> "But apart from these eye candy, in a more subtle way, a number of new applications are also in the pipeline. Let's explore these new comers."
<b>ars Technica:</b> "The developers behind the KDE desktop environment have released the first beta of version 4.5. Although the major focus during this development cycle is stability, the release also brings some nice new features and user interface improvements."
<b>Network World:</b> "Linux communities are hostile and Microsoft is a walled garden "stuffed-full of brilliant engineers", according to a former Linux, now Microsoft engineer, Crispin Cowan."
Security researchers identify threat of social engineering scheme that could aim to trick users into launch actions from PDF files that could trigger arbitrary code execution.
<b>Cyber Cynic:</b> "I decided to ask the good people at Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, what they thought about the new Ubuntu, scheduled to arrive on April 29th, and this is what Gerry Carr, head of platform marketing had do say."
<b>Distrowatch:</b> "Katie McCarley has announced the release of Element 1.2, an Ubuntu-based distribution for home theatre or media-centre personal computers"
OS Round Up: Despite the strength of backers Intel and Nokia, Meego has already fallen prey to a common open source server pitfall -- a moronic name. Can it overcome its nomenclature handicap and help make Linux the OS of choice for mobile computing?