Adobe Kills Off Flash for Mobile Browsers

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Adobe is stopping development of Flash Player for browsers on the mobile platform, ZD Net reports. From now, the company will be focusing its efforts on HTML5 and mobile apps.

Linux a threat to Microsoft? No way!

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Recently, Microsoft made a minor change in their list of competitors by quietly discounting Linux as a major threat to their empire. It wasn’t a conspicuous change though, as only about 2 or 3 million users out of the 20 million Linux users managed to notice it. Out of those 2 million, only a few [...]

With Chromebooks, are Linux-based netbooks dead?

As a longtime Linux user, I remember hearing about netbooks for the first time. It was an exciting feeling — finally, Linux will be able to beat Microsoft and that too on a completely new platform. However, when Windows-based netbooks started coming out, I was thoroughly disappointed. Microsoft had once again managed to monopolize an [...]

Adobe kills AIR for Linux. Seriously guys, who cares?

It might have come as a rude shock to Linux fans everywhere when Adobe decided to drop Adobe AIR for Linux. Well, it wasn’t as if it was popular on Linux but still, no one expected Adobe to do that. The reason they gave was ludicrous, stating that only 0.5 % of AIR users were [...]

10 ways in which Ubuntu can improve Unity

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With Natty Narwhal, Ubuntu underwent a major transformation. Gone was the plain and simple GNOME UI, and in came the shell interface with shiny new features. Though Canonical had high hopes from this release, the response Natty received was hugely disappointing. Many users felt that the release was a half-baked one with too many confusing [...]