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Nearly one year ago, Valve has started porting and testing the successful first-person shooter Left 4 Dead 2 with the current version of its graphics engine Source on Linux. At the same time, the managing director of the company Gabe Newell has informed me that the company has enormous problems with the graphics drivers on Linux and is urgently looking for Linux developers.
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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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Facebook Home, the Android launcher, has passed 500,000 installation in under a week, although the negative reviews continue to pour in on the Google Play store.
Facebook released Home on April 12 to the US and on April 16 worldwide, while it still works on only six devices, it has accumulated a lot of ground in under a week and will gain a lot more when it becomes available to every Android device.
In comparison to other Facebook and Facebook owned apps, the main Facebook app for Android has between 100 million and 500 million downloads and Instagram hit 1 million in under a day.
Facebook Home has received a pretty bitter response by the Android users, with 5,617 of the total 10,905 reviews hitting the one star. It is quite bemusing how many people believe this launcher is completely and utterly useless, of course we cannot base how good Facebook Home is on the audience of Android.
In our hands on with Facebook Home, we found the launcher to be one of Facebook’s best movements in the mobile world in terms of design — it has impressive speeds, Chat Heads is a clever tool and it makes the user more connected with Facebook.
We can see the downsides of this launcher as well though, for users who do not use Facebook a lot, Cover Feed may get annoying and for users who enjoy a natural Android experience, they may hate the way Facebook redesigns the phone.
The problem is for a one star review to be taken seriously the launcher would have to lack any design, any performance and any real initiative — it would have to be a pointless app and an ugly app, which it is not.
We will continue to see Facebook Home used and probably continue to see it negatively reviewed, but realistically Facebook shouldn’t take these maniac reviews to heart.
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The OpenCourseWare Consortium organized Open Education Week to raise awareness about open source, open education, and open educational resources. Participants include open textbook organizations, academic institutions from around the world, and other valuable open education ogranizations. All events are free and open to everyone.
It's that time of the week again where we bring you our weekly app picks, direct from the Android Central writers. This time each week we do our best to give you a look at an app that we're using and enjoying on our devices from day to day.
Stick around after the break and see how we did with our picks this week.
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Unigine Corp will be announcing next week the release of Unigine Valley 1.0 and the 4.0 update to their very popular cross-platform Unigine Heaven technology demo. Unigine Valley is an incredibly beautiful tech demo of the Unigine Engine coming to Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows operating systems. In this article is an exclusive preview of Unigine Valley as well as the significant Unigine Heaven 4.0 update.
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It's February and you know what that means? Mobile Nations Fitness Month! That's when we all get together to get in shape, share tips and tricks and recipes for success, review amazing apps and accessories, give away great prizes, and have a ton of fun! This year we're doing it a little differently, though. We're doing weekly themes, and that means every week you'll have new and exciting challenges, and new chances to win!
You know the old saying, you are what you eat? It's a cliche because it's true. Food is what gets us going and makes us run. Eating the right foods can improve the way we look and feel, how we handle stress and how we make it through the day. Food is our fuel, and we want to make sure we give our bodies and minds the best fuel possible.
As part of fitness month, we'll be reviewing a bunch of great apps and accessories that can help motivate, track, and train us to eat better and smarter.We'll also be doing THREE cool contests!
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Unigine Corp will be announcing next week the release of Unigine Valley 1.0 and the 4.0 update to their very popular cross-platform Unigine Heaven technology demo. Unigine Valley is an incredibly beautiful tech demo of the Unigine Engine coming to Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows operating systems. In this article is an exclusive preview of Unigine Valley as well as the significant Unigine Heaven 4.0 update.
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It's the first apps of the week roundup of February, and we tried our best to get some great picks for you this week. We've got a couple of useful tools and some fun games to try out, with a couple others sprinkled in as well. Check them out after the break and see how we did this week.
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