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Google Will Honor Motorola's 2.25% Per-Unit Royalty Rate

Google said it will acknowledge and support Motorola's patent licensing under FRAND practices. That includes the Android OEM's practices for licensing patents at a cost of 2.25 percent of the net selling price for each device.

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SUSE Marks 20 Years of Linux Love With Global Events

Linux distributor SUSE plans to celebrate its 20th anniversary with a series of global events commemorating key technology, corporate and community milestones.

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Mozilla Asked to Revoke Trustwave CA for Allowing SSL Eavesdropping

Even though Trustwave has revoked the SSL certificate that allowed a company to eavesdrop on SSL traffic, the Mozilla community wants the CA removed as a trusted authority.

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Sencha Launches Adobe Flex to HTML5 Program for Developers

Sencha has launched a program to try to get Adobe Flex developers to move to HTML5 development using Sencha's tools and frameworks.

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Chrome 17 Goes Stable With Faster, Safer Browsing

Google Chrome 17 goes stable for Windows, Mac and Linux. The company paid out $10,000 for bug fixes as well and made the browser faster and more secure.

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NGINX Launches Commercial Support for Open-Source Web Server

NGINX delivers commercial support for the popular open-source NGINX Web server.

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Kindle Fire Absence in the U.K. Spurs Protest

Amazon's popular Kindle Fire is missing in action outside the U.S., angering consumers in Canada and the U.K. and costing the company some money.

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Google Chrome Screenwise Program Seeks Web Testers

Updated: Google is preparing its Chrome Screenwise program to gain more information about Web surfers. The move comes as concerns over the company's privacy policy changes abound.

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Chrome For Android Available for Ice Cream Sandwich Devices

Google launches Chrome for Android, a mobile version of the popular, speedy Web browser used by more than 200 million people worldwide. It's in beta and only available for Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.

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Google Loses Bid to Quash Potentially Damaging Email in Oracle Case

A federal appeals court has denied Google’s attempt to have a potentially damaging email eliminated from evidence in its legal battle with Oracle over Java patents and Android.

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Android More Popular Than iOS Among New Smartphone Buyers

Some 57 percent of U.S. smartphone buyers picked an Android handset for the first time, compared with 34 percent who chose an iPhone, according to NPD Group.

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iPad, Android Will Spur Tablet Market to 125M Units

Apple's iPad and Google's Android tablets will continue to pace the slate market in 2012, with an assist from Microsoft Windows 8, said Jefferies & Co.

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ActiveState Delivers Komodo 7 IDE for Dynamic Language Development

ActiveState ships Komodo 7, the latest version of its integrated development environment (IDE) for Python, PHP, Ruby, JavaScript and Perl development.

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HTC, Motorola Making Fewer Android Phones as Samsung Pulls Away

Android OEMs Motorola and HTC are curbing their smartphone and tablet production in 2012, while Samsung holds the line.

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Motorola Xoom Tablets Sold With User Data on Woot

Motorola Mobility's troubles with the Android Honeycomb-based Xoom tablet continue as nearly 100 WiFi Xoom devices were accidentally resold with user data on them.
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Novell SUSE Manager 1.2 Taps Red Hat Technology to Rein In Enterprise Linux Servers
Early-version hiccups aside, Novell's new Spacewalk-based server management tool wins points for its support of both SUSE and Red Hat enterprise Linux flavors.
New Looks for Desktop Linux
With the release of GNOME 3.0 and Ubuntu 11.04, the face of the Linux and open-source desktop is changing.
Debian 6 Offers Updated Applications, Few Rough Spots
This latest release, which is also known by the Toy Story-inspired name “Squeeze,” will play well in server deployments that draw on open-source components, which the Debian project has a knack for packaging up for easy installation over one of the project's repository mirror sites.
New OpenOffice.org Suite: Adequate, but Uninspiring
The open-source office-productivity suite appears doomed for mediocrity.
LibreOffice Debuts, Beating OpenOffice.org by a Whisker
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