Google TV has now been around long enough for the geeks to play around with it. And they have come back with disappointing reviews. While most were excited at the concept of wedlock between the TV and Internet, the marriage itself looks destined to be difficult. More details available at tech.slashdot.org Related PostNews: Google Help ...

December 23rd, 2010. Right before christmas, KDE has published the first candidate for the upcoming release of KDE 4.6.0. The focus at this stage is on fixing bugs and completing translations and artwork. As such, the rework of the Oxygen icon set is nearing completion, many bugs reported by testers in the past weeks have ...

First spotted by Lee over at the Download Squad, the latest official beta of Firefox 4 has been released by the Mozilla development team responsible for the web browser. The release is currently in distribution which means it may take a while before it becomes officially available on the homepage. Currently, Firefox 4 Beta 7 ...

There’s lots of new software being released this week prior to the holidays and year’s end, including the release of the Opera 11.0 web-browser. The Norwegians have been hard at work on Opera 11 and it’s now officially available. This web-browser from the Oslo company provides tab stacking, a safer address field, visual mouse gestures, ...

Forget Google Instant, the search giant is working on ways to push relevant info to users before they have even asked for it… Foursquare-style location ‘check-insR 17; are also apparently on the way next year. More details available at tech.slashdot.org

The first of the test builds for the 8.2/7.4 release cycle is now available for amd64, i386, ia64, pc98, and sparc64 architectures. Files suitable for creating installation media or doing FTP-based installs through the network should be on most of the FreeBSD mirror sites. The ISO images for this build do not include packages other ...

Yet another possible change in Ubuntu’s core components: they’re mulling over replacing GDM with LightDM. Why? Well: “Faster – the greeter doesn’t require an entire GNOME session to run. More flexible – multiple greeters are supported through a well defined interface. This allows Ubuntu derivatives to use the same display manager (e.g. …

Wine 1.2.2 was released last week as the second point release in the Wine 1.2 stable series, but this week the Wine developers are back to working on Wine 1.4 in the Wine 1.3 development series. Wine 1.3.9 was just-issued and it’s back to bringing some more interesting changes to this free software project, including ...

Red Hat is pleased to announce the availability of the latest beta update to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, release 4.9 (with kernel 2.6.9-92.EL). Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.9 is in development and therefore the contents of the beta Red Hat Network (RHN) channels, the implemented features, and the supported configurations are subject to change ...

The PHP development team is proud to announce the immediate release of PHP 5.3.4. This is a maintenance release in the 5.3 series, which includes a large number of bug fixes. Security Enhancements and Fixes in PHP 5.3.4: Fixed crash in zip extract method (possible CWE-170). Paths with NULL in them (foo\0bar.txt) are now considered ...