Similar to yesterday’s early Radeon DRM benchmarks from Linux 3.10, here’s some initial OpenGL performance results for NVIDIA GeForce hardware when using the Nouveau DRM that’s updated in the Linux 3.10 kernel…
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The First Nouveau Benchmarks On Linux 3.10
May 9, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Huawei CEO speaks to press for the first time, denies espionage claims
May 9, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Ren Zhengfei spoke to reporters for the first time since founding Huawei in 1988
Huawei CEO Ren Zhengfei denied allegations that its products represent a threat to U.S. national security. Speaking directly with the press for the first time today, Zhengfei also denied any improper ties to the Chinese government, a central part of U.S. concerns over the Chinese communications giant.
Last October a damning Congressional report concluded that Huawei and local competitor ZTE "cannot be trusted to be free of foreign state influence and thus pose a security threat to the United States and to our systems." The panel behind the report also singled out Huawei for criticism, saying it'd received evidence of corruption, bribery and copyright infringement at the firm from industry experts and Huawei employees.
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T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S4 gets first update, visual voicemail and ISIS improvements included
May 7, 2013 by Leave a Comment
First update for T-Mobile Galaxy S4 going out over the air and through Kies
The first update for T-Mobile US's Samsung Galaxy S4 is pushing out today over the air and through Samsung's Kies desktop software.
The new software version M919UVUAMDL is a minor update containing "improvements to the visual voicemail app" and "ISIS app improvements," according to T-Mo's support pages. (ISIS being the NFC-based mobile wallet app backed by many U.S. operators.)
There's always a chance some other bug fixes or improvements have been sneaked in behind the scenes, so if you're rocking a T-Mo GS4 then hit the comments and let us know how you're getting on after today's update.
Source: T-Mobile; via: Android Central forums
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First Development Release of GNOME 3.10 Arrives
May 5, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Matthias Clasen had the pleasure of announcing last evening, May 3, that the first development release of the upcoming GNOME 3.10 desktop environment is ready for download and testing.
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Iron Penguin: First open-source “Iron Man” suit within reach?
May 5, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Building on the ground-breaking work of billionaire genius Tony Stark, the first Linux-powered Iron Man suits may soon be within the reach of homebrew builders.
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Mozilla Wants Low-Hanging Fruit with First Firefox OS Phones
May 1, 2013 by Leave a Comment
As we’ve noted recently, Mozilla, the nonprofit entity behind the Firefox browser and other open source tools, has detailed significant changes to its executive management as it positions nearly all of its momentum behind its new Firefox OS mobile platform. Even the CEO is stepping down this year as Firefox OS becomes job number one.
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Sony to post its first annual profit in five years
April 28, 2013 by Leave a Comment
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Sprint first quarterly results out: Managed to narrow down losses
April 25, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Sprint recently released their first quarter earnings of 2013. The 3rd largest carrier in US managed to narrow down their losses as compared to their previous year’s figure and managed to improve their revenues to $ 8.8 billion. The company is having a bad phase right now and its plan to leave Nextel may somewhat improve its profitability.
According to the results, the company sold over 5 million smartphones this quarter. Among these, 1.5 million were iPhones which is quite impressive but not that great as last quarter when they managed to sell over 2.2 millions handsets.
The company managed to earn revenue of @8.8 billion and narrowed down its losses to $ 643 million. Although, the figure is still pretty huge, it is a major improvement from the last quarter’s loss of $ 1.3 billion. With the company leaving Nextel, it was no surprise that the carrier lost a lot of subscribers. Sprint lost 572,000 customers when they made plans to leave Nextel, however they managed to add 12,000 new subscribers and hence the total figure went down to 560,000. As a result, now Sprint has only about 31.3 million customers on contract.
However, according to the company’s CEO Dan Hesse, this figure is likely to worsen. The company still has over 1.3 million Nextel customers and all of them will be kicked off when the deal completes in the next quarter. The major problem with the carrier was that it focused mainly on sales and marketing on its Nextel part and forgot to divert resources to their main Sprint service. According to CNET, a year ago, the company managed to sign 263,000 customers in the first quarter, however, in this quarter as already mentioned above, it managed to get only about 12,000 customers. This clearly shows that the carrier needs to focus on its service and if it wants to retain its position in the market, it should do much better than the current results. As the deal completes in the second quarter, Mr. Hesse is expecting profits and revenues to fall down. So don’t expect the company to make good profits even in the second quarter and we can expect some improvements only by the end of the year.
When it separates from Nextel, the company would be welcoming new ownership. The company is already in talks with a merger with the Japanese carrier, SoftBank and the deal is likely to close by July 1. Sprint has not been the best of the carriers in the country and with the merger with SoftBank, the carrier may hope to make some progress. SoftBank’s capital along with its leadership experience is sure to help the carrier grow in the coming quarters and we would like to see how the merger affects the company’s shares by the end of the year.
via [Electronista], [CNET]
Red Flag Linux Does Its First Major Release In Years
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First X.Org Server 1.15 Snapshot Released
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The final release of X.Org Server 1.15 isn’t likely until September or October of this year, but Keith Packard decided to do this 1.15 snapshot to take care of a previously reported security vulnerability. Aside from closing out the CVE, there’s various other updates too. There isn’t anything too extremely exciting about the 1.15 development state but there’s some fixes, X Input and XKB updates, and a new ZoomModes monitor option for the X.Org Server configuration.
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First X.Org Server 1.15 Snapshot Released
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Will We See the First Firefox OS Phones Selling This Week?
April 24, 2013 by Leave a Comment
While they may or may not be reliable, there are reports showing up online claiming that the first Firefox OS phones could go on sale this week. The Verge and The Next Web have been providing updates, and the big surprise is that while companies ranging from ZTE to Alcatel, LG, Huawei and Sony have committed to producing Firefox OS phones, the first company to offer them out of the gate is a small Spanish player called Geeksphone.Whoever ships these phones first will get a leg up on what could become a big trend, and possibly the key to Mozilla’s future. Here is a look at how Firefox OS phones could transform Mozilla.
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