Gamasutra
Release This: Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, The Darkness II ship to retail
Gamasutra
by Danny Cowan [Console/PC, Business] Gamasutra's regular round-up of worldwide video game releases, "Release This!", takes a look at every game title we know to be shipping to stores this week, in a custom compiled list. This week brings Kingdoms of ...
A new ballgame for Curt Schilling: 'Kingdoms of Amalur'USA TODAY
AU Shippin' Out Feb 6-10: Kingdoms of Amalur: ReckoningGameSpot
New This Week in Video GamesAttack of the Fanboy
The Guardian -Computerandvideogames.com -1UP.com
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T3
Best Buy. Samsung Debut Commercials During Super Bowl
Dealerscope
The consumer electronics industry's participation in Super Bowl Sunday TV commercials was light this year, with only Best Buy and Samsung showing new ads. After last year's Super Bowl ad that featured Justin Bieber and Ozzy Osbourne, Best Buy's 2012 ...
Samsung Galaxy Note Super Bowl ad takes more jabs at AppleApple Insider
Best Buy offers free flip cover case with ATT's Samsung Galaxy NoteIntoMobile
Samsung goes big with its crossoverWinnipeg Free Press
CNET -Phones Review -BetaNews
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TorrentFreak
BitTorrent Giant BTjunkie Shuts Down For Good
TorrentFreak
BTjunkie, one of the largest BitTorrent indexes on the Internet, has decided to shut down voluntarily today. A combination of legal actions against fellow file-sharing sites and time-consuming projects have led to the drastic decision that takes out ...
Torrent site btjunkie shuts downSlashGear
BTjunkie closes its doors 'voluntarily'ZDNet (blog)
BTJunkie Shuts Down Voluntarilypnosker.com
Boing Boing -100gf | Politics and Computers -Ghacks Technology News
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Technology Review
With $50M raised, Nicira disrupts Cisco and Juniper Networks with network ...
VentureBeat
Network virtualization start-up Nicira is coming out of stealth mode today and it has an impressive set of customers who evidently believe that it can disrupt the likes of Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks. The idea is to become a company that can ...
Meet Nicira. Yes, people will call it the VMware of networking.GigaOm
Andreessen Horowitz-Backed Nicira Pulls The Curtains Back On Disruptive ...TechCrunch
Networking Startup Nicira Wants To Mess Up Cisco and Juniper's BusinesAll Things Digital
Network World -Technology Review -MarketWatch (press release)
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Moneycontrol.com
Ford asks GM to pull Super Bowl ad implying that Silverado is most dependable ...
Washington Post
LAS VEGAS — Ford is demanding that rival General Motors pull a Super Bowl commercial that implies the Chevrolet Silverado pickup is more dependable than the Ford F-Series. But GM stands by the ad and says it will run during Sunday's game.
Ford tried to stop Chevrolet Silverado's Super Bowl adUSA TODAY
GM, Ford feud over Super Bowl adReuters
Ford demands GM, NBC pull Chevy Super Bowl adFox News
Detroit Free Press -San Francisco Chronicle
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RingyDingyDingy is a lightweight app which lets you send a text message to your phone (or your Google Voice number, for phones and tablets) to make it ring (disabling silent/vibrate if on, and restoring them when ringing has stopped) and lock (on Froyo or newer).

Release Notes: This release adds a Google Voice trigger (compatible with phones and tablets), makes the SMS trigger able to be disabled, and adds "rdd" as a shorthand for "RingyDingyDingy".

Licenses: GPLv3

CUPS is a standards-based printing system for Mac OS X and other Unix-like operating systems. It provides the System V and Berkeley command line interfaces, and uses the Internet Printing Protocol ("IPP") as the basis for managing print jobs and queues. The Line Printer Daemon (LPD) Server Message Block (SMB), and AppSocket (a.k.a. JetDirect) protocols are also supported with reduced functionality. CUPS adds network printer browsing and PostScript Printer Description ("PPD") based printing options to support real world printing.

Release Notes: This release fixes the tarballs released as CUPS 1.5.1.

Tags: Internet, printing, Software Development, Libraries, PDF, PostScript

Licenses: GPL, LGPL

IBNLive.com
Facebook's Mobility Challenge
New York Times
Lots of people love their cellphones. Facebook, so far, is not a big fan. Amid the jaw-dropping financial figures the company revealed last week when it filed for a public offering was an interesting admission. Although more than half of its 845 ...
Useful - or annoying screen clutter? Facebook to show ads on mobile phonesDaily Mail
Facebook looks to mobile devices for revenue-FTReuters
Facebook plans push into mobile ads - reportTelecompaper (subscription)
Times of India -Financial Times -VC Circle
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Wolf Software HTTP Ping Class is a simple script for pinging Web sites. It's one of the many classes in the "WolfTrack" monitoring system.

Release Notes: This release adds better error messages, configurable ports, and SSL handling.

Tags: php class

Licenses: GPLv3

QDAE is an emulator supporting various 16-bit computers made by Apricot in the 1980s, plus the Wang Professional Computer. All these were non-IBM-compatible systems running custom versions of MS-DOS or CP/M.

Release Notes: A native mouse driver has been added, allowing improved pointer integration with the host operating system. Various improvements and bugfixes have been made to serial port emulation.

Tags: Emulators

Licenses: GPLv2

Wolf Software Geomap Class is a class that uses the Google Maps API to generate world maps indicating which countries have visited your site.

Release Notes: This release adds json_encode to escape any strings which have single or double quotes in them.

Tags: php class

Licenses: GPLv3

py-setproctitle is a library that allows a Python process to change its title, as displayed by system tools such as ps and top. Changing the title is useful in multi-process systems, for example when a master process is forked: changing the child's title allows you to identify the task each process is busy with. It is based on PostgreSQL's multi-platform implementation.

Release Notes: This release allows you to change the title of a process running an embedded Python interpreter, for instance in mod_wsgi. This is a test release: it is not available on PyPI, but it can be found on the project homepage.

Release Tags: Beta

Tags: Python, process, title

Licenses: BSD License

jace is a cycle-accurate emulation of an enhanced Apple //e. Its modular framework makes it easy for developers to swap out components (video/cpu/etc.) or add new emulated hardware.

Release Notes: Mouse and interrupts are correctly supported. The JACE startup screen "helpful messages" option no longer breaks Airheart. It is now possible to configure a virtual prodos volume as a physical folder for read-only operations. 65C02 bitwise opcodes have been implemented: BBR, BSR, RMB, and SMB. 140kb 2MG images are now supported by the Disk ][ Controller. Booting with the mass storage device enabled but no drives selected will no longer crashes to the monitor on startup. New sound mixer configuration.

Release Tags: Stable, Major, GUI

Tags: Computer emulator

Licenses: LGPL

sleepworker is a daemon that monitors your Unix machine for idle time. With the help of this daemon, you can execute commands or programs during idle time.

Release Notes: This release adds a handler for disabling the loadvalue test.

Tags: Desktop Environment, Screen Savers, Security

Licenses: GPLv2

Seed7 is a general purpose programming language. It is a higher level language compared to Ada, C++, and Java. In Seed7, new statements and operators can be declared easily. Functions with type results and type parameters are more elegant than a template or generics concept. Object orientation is used when it brings advantages and not in places when other solutions are more obvious. Although Seed7 contains several concepts of other programming languages, it is generally not considered as a direct descendant of any other programming language.

Release Notes: FAQ answers, explaining call-by-name and how it is implemented in Seed7, were added. The "ftpserv.sd7" program was improved to work with various FTP client programs. The speed of 'socLineRead' (getln() for sockets) in "soc_rtl.c" was improved. The Unicode support of "ftp.s7i" and "ftp7.sd7" was improved. The compiler was improved to generate optimized code for the the @:= operator. Test cases for the @:= operator were added to "chkstr.sd7". The program "chkccomp.c" was changed to include "version.h" and to define OS_OFF_T_SIZE. The function 'str' for 'fileMode' was improved.

Release Tags: Minor feature and documentation enhancements

Tags: Software Development, Interpreters, Compilers

Licenses: GPL, LGPL

TXR is a text extraction and reporting pattern language with support for imperative and functional programming. TXR is written in C and takes the form of a utility that runs natively in Unix and Windows. It is intended for "rubber meets the road" computing: quickly throwing together clear, expressive programs which manipulate messy data. It provides different new ways to express solutions in a space occupied by some traditional tools.

Release Notes: This release fixes incorrect UTF-8 decoding of a valid character range, and closes security issues related to UTF-8 decoding and re-encoding. A regression that broke computed field widths in release 55 is fixed. Hex and octal escapes in string literals and quasiliterals are now recognized like the documentation says. The [...] notation now has evaluation semantics for symbolic arguments which are like Lisp-1. An operator called op has been introduced for writing simple lambdas with a currying syntax with numbered and implicit arguments.

Tags: text analysis, text formatting, Text Processing, parsing, pattern matching, Lisp, Interpreters, unix tool, functional language, pipes, template processor, Template engine

Licenses: BSD Revised

MALODOS helps you to scan, store, and easily retrieve all your personal documents. Its storage format is open and documented, so your document archive can remain accessible even without MALODOS. The documents themselves are stored as standard PDF files, while their metadata (such as title, tags, and description) are stored into a separate SQLite database in an open format. With MALODOS, you can also manage existing files in PDF, JPEG, TIFF, and other formats, so you can still use the documents that you've already scanned. You can connect to any external OCR program to give access to a fulltext search feature.

Release Notes: The automatic scan option prevented the scan dialog from opening when checked; this has been fixed. This release adds confirmation before changing a record, if changes were entered and not saved. It adds confirmation before leaving the scan window if the images were not saved.

Release Tags: Stable

Tags: EDM, PDF, TIFF, Scanner, Document Management, OCR, DMS

Licenses: GPLv3

imvirt is a Perl script that tries to detect if it is called from within a virtualization container. This is detected by looking for well-known boot messages, directories, and reading DMI (Desktop Management Interface) data. The following containers are detected: Virtual PC/Virtual Server, VirtualBox, VMware, QEMU/KVM, Xen (para and non-para virtualized), OpenVZ/Virtuozzo, UML, and any HVM providing CPUID 0x40000000 detection.

Release Notes: Improved overall detection. Improved debug output. The addition of INSTALLDIRS=vendor to conform to the Debian Perl policy.

Release Tags: Stable

Tags: virtualization management, virtualization, virtualization detection

Licenses: GPLv2

WackoWiki is a small, lightweight, handy, expandable Wiki clone. Its main advantages are a visual (WYSIWYG) editor, an easy installer, full Russian support, many localizations, email notification on changes/comments, several cache levels, design themes (skins) support, XHTML compliance, page rights (ACLs), and page comments.

Release Notes: This second release candidate includes many fixes.

Tags: Communications, Information Management, Document Repositories, Internet, Web, Dynamic Content, Office/Business, groupware, Wiki

Licenses: BSD Revised

JStock is a stock market software for 26 countries. It provides a stock watchlist, an intraday stock price snapshot, a stock indicator editor, a stock indicator scanner, portfolio management, and market chit chat features. Free SMS/email alerts are supported.

Release Notes: A critical bugfix in the stock server engine.

Tags: Financial, Investment, Java

Licenses: GPLv2